laidback_rob

yes i am a newbe to cctv/dvr stuff im a computer guy but my friend asked for my help here

Hello everyone....nice community.... just spent about 30 mins searching for an answer and no luck so please excuse me if this has been asked before... I have a client who has 3 locations with a 4 camera setup at each location. The cameras are all coax wired to a generic dvr box, which displays on a cctv display. the dvr box is on a lan, and is accessible from the internet for viewing with some "Generic" remote viewer application. Everything is working BUT on his laptop when he connects to the different cameras he has to use 2 different installed versions of generic "remote viewer" program. the dvr boxes are all different "generic" types, it seems the 2 different generic remote viewer programs don't support all 3 different kind of dvr's. Is there a piece of software I can use/buy that will replace this generic remote viewer that you folks can recommend? All the solutions referred to so far are big corp type packages which usually require a server connecting to all the dvr's and then you connect to the server to view.... thanks! by the way the target remote viewing client is a laptop with verizon wireless and windows xp if there was a piece of software that also did this for PDA/WM5-6 smartphones i'd be interested as well!