Well the situation is somewhat solved.
First the media port was being used by another software and so a change to that cured the problem to connect to the DVR through BI. The other problem came to be the setting in the setup for the each channel in BI camera configuration, as did
larrybui.
That pointed to how I fill in the blanks with reference to Video's Path and Parameters. I just placed 1,2,3 and 4 respectively to each camera setup in their Path lines, left the Parameter line blank and selected 0,1,2,and 3 for Channels. That worked, why I do not know. It was somewhat of a trail and error.
That was an old refurbished unit tinkered with many times, I did encounter the same with a generic unit, NDC DVR-2308, Set that up and all is well.
Thanks
fenderman for the guidance in this matter, noted.
Ps.
BLUE IRIS 4, ROCKS !!!. Two systems are updated and running perfectly for me. No issue at all in aspects of the software and App. I am looking to add a few more cams. Maybe a mid range PTZ in the future for the hopefully upcoming of Tracking ability to BI.:livid:
BaBaLou.