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I am sure this topic has been discussed before, but could not find any previous posts here. Security industry white-papers and professional installers both make their cases for either CBR or VBR to record video files. So storage space and bandwidth aside, I am interested to hear your thoughts...

All, The NVR has a lot to do. ie: receive multiple streams, create files, write to disc, etc. I'm not sure how various settings I select affect the workload of the NVR processors. Maybe my settings make it hard on the NVR processors. And an overloaded NVR may mean degraded performance...