So had my neighbor up the street ask if I would have any footage of their accident today, Got the footage from my 5108-i3 and shared with LEO as well the DL onto their Thumb Drive.. One thing that wasn't on the video because the car was facing front and no plate on front. So was looking to find the info on my Bi box, I found when I think the person came into the area yesterday and wanted to DL the clip from Bi and save to HDD and or another thumb drive that I can share with LEO
Main issue is that the footage that I was able to DL from the list on the left side is very choppy and don't look clean enough to even tell if the car had a real plate or not. I can see the footage better in Bi playback area just not as clean once it DL by only way I know how to save footage from Bi. Normally not something I care about, but if I can get as clean as the playing on my Bi that would be great. Worse case I might have to use my Screen capture software to record the footage.
How do you all DL clear and useable footage for backup?
Best way to save an event?
Best way to save an event?
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ultimatecodewarrior
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Re: Best way to save an event?
@Revo2Maxx - I was very disenchanted by most NVR's. The more camera's you add, the more compression they put on the signal when saving. Viewing the feed LIVE looked great, but when you went to review it later, it totally sucked. They do not warn you of this beforehand either. It's criminal in of itself!
The good news about Amcrest cameras is that their H264 is compatible with on some of the 8mp cameras I tested with Python's PyAV so that you can write your own NVR on your computer and download the H264 directly to a MP4 file for a secondary backup. IP8M-T2599EW-AI-V3 They also allow multiple simultaneous connections to the RTSP feed as well. I'm recording one minute blocks slightly overlapped and then use FFMPEG to stitch them together seamlessly. I'm doing full resolution real time frame over frame processing with NVIDIA's 4070 so that I get long distance detection and create a thumbnail view of all events so it's easy to review footage during the day. Just click on a thumbnail and a 10 second extract plays that's easy to increase the duration around the event and export to MP4.
This QuickTime based MP4 can be uploaded to youtube or played in a browser window on a Thumb drive in 4k. You tube is nice because it's easier to share with Neighbors/LEO's and they can watch it on phones, computers, etc. You can publish a video privately or only those with the link can view it.
Here's an example from about 350-400 feet away of a Truck I captured yesterday backing into my neighbors fence and then driving off. (We found the guy later and got his insurance info).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8xxNv0Mq7Q
The good news about Amcrest cameras is that their H264 is compatible with on some of the 8mp cameras I tested with Python's PyAV so that you can write your own NVR on your computer and download the H264 directly to a MP4 file for a secondary backup. IP8M-T2599EW-AI-V3 They also allow multiple simultaneous connections to the RTSP feed as well. I'm recording one minute blocks slightly overlapped and then use FFMPEG to stitch them together seamlessly. I'm doing full resolution real time frame over frame processing with NVIDIA's 4070 so that I get long distance detection and create a thumbnail view of all events so it's easy to review footage during the day. Just click on a thumbnail and a 10 second extract plays that's easy to increase the duration around the event and export to MP4.
This QuickTime based MP4 can be uploaded to youtube or played in a browser window on a Thumb drive in 4k. You tube is nice because it's easier to share with Neighbors/LEO's and they can watch it on phones, computers, etc. You can publish a video privately or only those with the link can view it.
Here's an example from about 350-400 feet away of a Truck I captured yesterday backing into my neighbors fence and then driving off. (We found the guy later and got his insurance info).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8xxNv0Mq7Q