video quality

Hi everyone! A while back I installed a Hikvision two-wire door station, modelnumber DS-KD8003-IME2. The video quality of the live stream, which is in 1920x1080, isn't great tho. In order to get better video quality, I wanted to change the max. bitrate. The manual says that the max. bitrate is...

I was wondering if I use SSD instead of HDD in my NVR would it will give me more crispy video footage as writing speed increases in SSD. Asking this because I observe the live preview in my NVR is much more sharper than the recorded preview from storage. The camera setting is highest (Video...

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...

I've emailed Ken about this and he said he was not aware of it. For the past year or so, whenever I go into a non-active portion of video, ie: a part that was recorded one-fame-per minute periodic, it will dim the window like so. It seems to be intentional, and is great on the timeline view to...

Im running Blue Iris on a 4+ year old laptop with an i5 and 8GB ram. I have 6 cameras (5 foscam and 1 armcrest), 5 of which record on motion, the 6th is just a backup monitor in the nursery so it doesnt record, i just stream the video on a tablet sometimes. The cameras are all configured in...