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Left Turn Larry

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    Hi everyone,

     

    First, I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere on the board. I did look around, but most of what I found was dated and of course the technology changes so quickly.

     

    On a new contract we picked up we're putting in a lot of DH-Vision/Uniview 4MP systems and it's time to shop for a new CCTV tester. Unfortunately I can't seem to find any reliable information. Obviously monitor resolution and things like that are important, but then there seems to be an issue finding testers that have the protocol built in for the system you're installing so you can access the PTZ or varifocal lens. Also most of what we put in today is H.265 so that would be a nice feature, and of course PoE power from the tester to the cam is important.

     

    Would any of you be willing to share your thoughts on what you feel the best test monitor is now? Also I'd love to hear other tech's concerns.

     

     

    I'm in the same boat. I still have a lot of analog so I am looking for analog capabilites as well. I had the axis handheld, but it takes forever to boot up and is rather useless when it comes to IP cams. I found this

    VERACITY VAD-PS POINTSOURCE BATTERY. I think I will purchase this and use my laptop for IP cams.

     

    But I am looking for an analog portable CCTV monitor that will work and last. I bought one of those cheapy $60 ones from amazon, it worked ok, but died after 6 months.

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    I am the integrator. I am running Genetec 5.1 with service pack 8. It just seems that Genetecs software architecture was designed for analog cameras. As an example Genetec has a software limitation of processing 300mbps when running a stand alone archiver, but if you want to run the archiver and directory on the same machine it has a 200mbps limitation. This limitation was causing me to fail on pulling video from the archiver even though my hardware could handle the load. The software would fail the video extraction because it was causing over the limit network processing to occur. So since I am running the directory and archiver on the same server any time my gigabit network would spike over 20% the video extraction would fail. This limitation is all processing not just the bandwidth from the camera to the archiver, but from the archiver to the guard viewing client as well as to the video extraction no matter what machine it was being pulled off of.

     

    Another example is the Security Desk client has a 5gb cache limit when viewing stored video directly out of tiles. The software will cache the video so it can be scrolled through faster which makes sense, however since I am running 5 megapixel Arecont cameras (which suck for bandwidth/storage) So when the customer reaches that 5gb limit of cached video it just stops allowing any more video to be viewed and after my rounds with Genetec the only way to clear it as of now is to close the program and re-open it.

     

    The system I am referring to only has 24 physical cameras but due to the 180 cameras I have 33 video feeds.

     

    I have an Exacq system running 55 Arecont 5 megapixel cameras and have no problems with it. So I was just seeing if anybody else is experiencing these issues with Genetec.

     

     

    I realize this is an older post, however I have several customers still using SC 5.1 with one server and one client. I have been fighting with these genetec servers for a long time now. I have several, separate locations with lagging issues. Constant buffering video, running slow. One thing I was told by genetec was to turn video caching off, hasn't fixed anything. One of my system runs 95 axis cameras, again one server, one client. I am beginning to wondering if we are setting them up correctly. The instructions come from the client/genetec/IT dept. I don't understand why a client pulls up video to review and it buffers for 30secs before you can review video. Where is the bottleneck? Client machine or server?

     

    This post helped me alot as for getting some kind of insight into how this software functions. With the cost of this software and the robust(ness) of the software, I don't think i should have any issues with lagging video

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