PumpkinEater

>So it looks like I am going to have to record EVENTS in high res based on motion and then also record a 2nd stream for archive My configuration: Stream 1 for 24hx7 recording: H.264 1280x800 15 fps detailed quality I have configured cyclic recording on a 650 GByte partition (ubuntu file server). That gives me records of the last 14 days. I have mounted the partition from my Win7 notebook, so I have a new network drive for the camera which I can access from the windows file manager. When I need a special record, I can easily step down the directory tree (month->hour) to get the right 60sec record. I also have configured motion detection, juast to know, when events happened. The limited amount of seconds for these events makes it nearly useless.

I am using 32GB Transcend Class 4. As far as I know SDHC standard is limited to 32GB, SD cards with larger memory size follow the SDXC standard with up to 2048 GB, but depending on the camery I believe, that SDXC might not be supported by most of the cameras. If you plan to use a memory card, I would recommend to use the max size the camera supports. Another important point is the speed the memory card can be written. For example, my SDHC card as Class 4 according to standard has to provide 4 MByte/s, but it's reported that 5.5 Mbyte/s are really possible. In general it' a good idea to compare the measured speeds of the cards. It can happen that some Class 2 cards are faster than Class 4 cards. Look to measures where larger blocks (e.g. 4 Mbyte) are used for transfer in the tests. Vivotek offers a nice tool for free download, which delivers the actual speed the camera is using for one of the configured streams. There you can see which speed is required depending on the video settings.

Of course you get it, because in the "Recording Settings" you still have an entry "Record" which is "ON". If you switch that off, the periodic video should be gone, and only the motion related videoclips defined in the Event settings ("Motion Areas") should appear.

Hmm, if it's a Vivotek, check the following - in the menu "Configuration" -> "Application": In the section "Event Settings", is there any event defined with a Trigger "seq" ? If true, set Status to "off". -in the menu "Configuration" -> "Recording": Is there any setting defined in section "Recording Settings"? If true, set status to "off"

I am using two Vivotek cameras which have SD memory (32GB) and actually I am thinking about using SD memory or network storage. It mainly depends on the hours or days you would like to store movies on SD memory. If one day is enough, SD memory can store movies with good quality. For example, if you are using a Megapixel camera like Vivotek IP8332, and if you set quality, framerate and resolution to max. values you will find that a 32GB SD card will store only some hours but not a complete day. So, one solution would be to reduce the quality/resolution (but: why did you buy a megapixel camera at all? ), or just to use network storage instead. Another idea would be to move the movies from SD card to network storage in regular time intervalls but in that case you could use the network storage already in the first step, because the move also needs hours on the network. For Vivotek cameras, you could record based only on detected motions, but unfortunately the resulting videoclips are restriced to 20 sec and 4MByte (and for high res/best quality this means only a few seconds (5-10 sec). So in most cases longer events (triggered by motion) are not recorded completely. The same is true for the adaptive recording where the Vivotek cameras reduces the frame rate when no motion is detected. In that case you will get records with low framerate and only for short duration within the motion event higher frame rates.

Thanks. That's a pity - and I observed that the clips might be smaller than 20 sec depending on image resolution, because than the max 4096 kBytes will limit the clip just to 5 sec. Any idea why Vivotek uses this stupid limitations? And another question: for each videoclip, a log file is written to the SD card. How can I disable this (I didn't find any configuration for that)?

Hi all, I tried to setup motion dectection on a the camera FD8134 in a way, that a video clip is written to SD card when motion was detected. As far as I understood, I have to create a new videoclip in the "Media Settings", and the videoclip can have a maximum duration of 20 sec only. Problem: when a motion event occurs which s longer than 20 sec, only the first 20 sec are recorded. It seems that a longer motion does not extend the videoclip. The only solution might be to allow a new event already 9 sec after the first event. But I assume that would create a new videoclip. So, is there a way to record events that are longer than 20 secs? Peter