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I use handbrake, it's open source and free with a gui, I had CCTV to send to the police in a format they can read easily and also to upload onto facebook etc , it has batch convert. I would reccomend handbrake. It also comes with pre set templates for file, bit rate and format Depending on your...

must get an IP card installed for my texecom alarm system, - but only when i have sorted out running blacksheer/ frigate for person detection off my hikvison NVR & cameras - there's add-in now for that as well, uses a google coral TPU..seems highly rated...

interested in this myself . HA user here as well,

many thanks for the feedback, time to buy one , think it will have to be the 4mp as thats i all i can find listed at the mo, same light sensitivity though , and i do need that optical zoom

im sure i have edited converted using VS player, but it was basically crap to use, no investment by hikvision... how often does an end user in a professional CCTV control room have to edit / convert videos into another format, thats DVD , Gmail, facebook, media player friendly at work. that...

Hi im getting ready to pull the trigger and buy one of these DS-2DE4A425IW-DE , 25x zoom PTZ, its for a low light , where i do need a decent zoom along with intrusion detection 1/2.8" progressive scan CMOS  Up to 2560 × 1440 resolution  Min. illumination: Color: 0.005 Lux @(F1.6, AGC ON)...

never tried it , its free , and pretty versatile there are a few Open source video editing packages try openshot based on the FFmpeg library another is Blender

i just use handbrake, its free opensource and generally works very well with hikvsion, files u can convert it to any standard /format you can drag and drop, choose the preset, name the output file and location, add to the queue, and encode i now use the vimeo/ youtube HQ1080p60 preset, as it...

its at this link Hikvision Uk FW

i have a hik nvr, so dont record on the cam, but i had my NVR gui open when i saw this message have u set the arming schedule, set the linkage method, eg tick notify surveillance centre and under storage, set how it records

and thank you alastair stevenson , helping to suss that it proberly firmware, he saves the day again

looks like V4.21.005 build 190509, has a bug, was recording the smart events, but not all camera playing back via a web browser, downgraded the FW , and its working again

interested to hear the reply just posted something similar myself

ive used a hik cube camera to resolve a mouse infestation, in my garage nothing like using intrusion detection, along with 5 mouse traps, 15 trapped over a week, infestation gone

Hi i have a HIK NVR DS-7608NI-K2 / 8P just upgraded its firmware, to V4.21.005 build 190509, on some cameras the smart events are not working on 3 cameras, fine on the others what the best way to set up smart events, is it just via the front end of NVR , or set it up in the back end...