robca

I have a GV600-4 card running 7.05 software, properly set for remote viewer, on a broadband connection. Currently using only 2 cameras, set for 720x480 NTSC resolution.

When I launch RemoteViewer and connect, the 2 cameras show in a very small 320x240 window inside the bigger RemoteView window. Shouldn't the cameras show as 720x480? I couldn't find any setting (either on the TCP/IP server or the player) to change that.

I know I could use the GeoHTP server and the Web UI (or, even better, Rory's viewer), but I'm a bit paranoid about running the GeoHTP server, even on a port different from 80

Thanks, Rob

tpolus is correct, the GV-2004 is not stackable but the GV-2008 is.....just to clear that up

First of all, thanks for the answers.

I have no direct knowledge of the GV-2004 or 2008, but I did see quite a few Geovision dealers (including supporters of this forum, I'm avoiding names in case it's frowned upon by the etiquette here) selling a 2004 kit with 2 paired cards, like:

GV-2004-KIT

This kit includes 2 x GV-2004 Cards for a total of 8 channels at 240FPS at D1 Resolution.

From the above, the GV-2004 (well above my budget anyway ) seems to be stackable

I don't think that the GV-600 card is "stackable", but I thought I'd ask anyway. I have a GV-600-4 V3 card with the USB dongle, and saw an opportunity to buy a second identical card

Can 2 of them run on the same PC? If not, I will consider selling mine and upgrading (I need 6 cameras)

Thanks, Rob

Now here's the funny part: If I unplug the kettle-cord with the main power supply from the PC, and plug it back in and then switch it on, the problem magically dissapears!! And then it works fine for about five days until the cycle repeats itself.

 

Now I don't know if maybe the pc builds up a static charge over 5 days, and maybe discharges when I unplug the power cord, or what.

 

PLEASE, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY THAT HAPPENS?????

When you say "restart the PC as many times as I want", do you mean just restarting, or power cycling the PC and wiaiting 30 seconds? Modern PCs always supply power to the motherboard, even when the PC is off. If you turn off a computer from the front panel, all it happens is that a signal is sent to a chip, and the chip powers down most of the motherboard, but not everything. Pressing power again, turns power on to everything.

I doubt that what you are seeing is static buildup. Does your PC have a real power switch in the back of the power supply? If so, try turning it off, wait thirty seconds, and power on again. If that solves your problem, you can have one of the following:

- your DVR card gets into a funky state after 5 days (could even be a software problem: software drivers can do funky stuff when they crash), and the card doesn't get properly reset just by powering it down, and still draws power when the front panel switch is pressed

- your motherboard has a problem, and needs a full power cycle to get back to working normally. Any problem to the bus (or the chips managing the bus), will result in the drivers not being able to get signal, and trigger the video lost message

If you have more than one PC handy, a quick swap should point to the culprit (PC or card)

You know, Microsoft has an operating system like the one you want: stable, based on the XP kernel (hence compatible with all drivers), modular, and infinitely tweakable: XP embedded. If someone wanted to build a dedicated system (commercial line, I mean), XP embedded would be a good choice, and would result in faster/more stable systems, as only the needed components can be installed and tested (so that fewer patches would be needed, as only the installed components need to be patched). Not to mention that customers won't be able ot play as much with it, lowering the chance of installing programs that make the system unstable

http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/usewinemb/xp/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/howtobuy/default.aspx#prctbl

Not sure when someone would reach the break-even point (licensing&development cost), but it might be worth looking into

As i said, I'm online as "me" not as a Microsfot employee

I have a Product key sticker in front of me (a new one). I have to say that the font looks pretty good, and there's no way I could confuse B with 8. It might have been the case in the past (and, probably, somebody pointed that out and got changed). If your sticker is confusing, please PM me and I'll send feedback to the right folks. There's definitely no sinister intention in making it hard to enter the product key . Ideally WPA should be completely transparent to the user.

As for the "stripped down" windows, actually Windows server 2003 (granted, more expensive than XP) does a very good job at running fast on stripped down HW, and allowing you to tweak all the services. As aperson who used ot work on the embedded part of our business, I can assure you that performance is sometimes counter-intuitive, and not always smaller is faster, especially on PC platforms, where there are significant optimizations available. Very likely, the old win 9x code would run much slower on today's hardware, as could not take advantage of the newer instrtuctions on a modern CPU.

Hope this helps...

(full disclosure: I work for Microsoft, but I speak for myself here. My only interest is in getting my GV600 card to work at its best, and this forum has helped me immensely in finding the right card for my needs. I'm hoping to return the favor answering computer questions, my area of expertise)

Activation is a 0 cost option (online). No need to call international, you can activate online (or thru local subsidiaries).

The only time you might need to speak with a person, is when you replace so many components in a system that, de facto, is a new PC. I personally replaced pretty much everything (apart from the motherboard), and never had to reactivate, on many PCs. If you replace the MB, you are much better off, anyway, to reinstall from scratch, as the old drivers can really cause trouble.

In general, if you have a legit copy of XP, WPA is a non-issue.

Yes, there are SKUs and licenses that do not require activation. Here's some more info

http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/activation_volumefaq.mspx

Also (and I'm not implying anything here, honest ), pirated versions of Windows are distributed with WPA disabled (but might have problems with updates).

I'm not sure, but I think that there might also be regional differences.

If your Windows copy needs activation, it will bug you for 30-60 days, then will stop working until you activate it (i.e. as soon as you log on, the only available option is to activate it, or it will shut down, no data loss). Please also note that activation is different than registration. With registration you provide personal (identifiable) data, but you can "just activate", and no identifiable data is sent to Microsoft.

Here's more info on product activation

http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.php

You can change a significant amount of HW before having to reactivate

I just installed a GV600 in my system, and I love it (I'm a "computer guy", and I tried every combination of TV/Video capture boards and webcam/surveillance software I could find on the internet, and nothing was working properly... installing/using the GV600 was such a refreshing change, and everything works without overloading the processor).

I currently have only 2 cameras on a 4 camera card. One is dedicated to motion capture at high-fps (creating high-quality AVIs of activity in a specified area), the other only needs to take a snapshot every minute or so. Alas, I could not figure out a way to do so, as the lowest FPS I can set is 1, and that eats too much storage space for my needs. The PC I'm using is not connected to the internet, and I can access it only by remote-terminal (over WiFi), so I can't use a streaming solution to capture the snapshots on another PC

Can you think of any way of using a camera on a GV600 to take a snapshot a minute? Or generate an AVI with one frame every minute?

As a side note, I'm using the GV600 on an AMD Athlon 1.5+ recycled system, and it works like a champ, without overloading the CPU (I'm runnning Windows 2003 server, rock solid). Can do motion-triggered capture with a pretty complex mask (to avoid false triggers) at 640x480 and AVI encoding with processing cycles to spare. Any other program/card I tried (granted, all low end) would immediately overload the CPU and drop frames at anytihng bigger than 320x240, one channel

Thanks in advance, ROb