Rjbovits Nov 30, 2008
Thank
you for that really fast response. I looked at the Blue Iris software and it
looks great. I used to use the Xvid codec ....... excellent video quality.
My old Geovision has left a lot to be desired in the quality of video. Hope to
be contacting you soon with an order
Angelo Nov 29, 2008
WOW! The video brightness, contrast and motion detection is just superb.
I sure love the web
server on Blue Iris, I'm still tweaking the settings. Using the Xvid codec is
far superior than the other codecs for streaming video
Xvid is a MPEG-4 video codec for PC.
Its purpose is to compress video in order to allow for faster
transmission over computer networks or for more efficient storage
on computer disks. Hence, Xvid can somewhat be seen as a ZIP for
video. Xvid removes information from video that is not important
for human perception in order to achieve very high compression
rates while still keeping very good visual quality. As an example:
uncompressed digital video is huge and takes up about 100 GB HD
space per hour at PAL resolution. The same video would require
just 500 MB per hour when compressed with Xvid at high quality. So
Xvid can compress video at ratios of 200:1 and more.
XviD is the "best"
currently available MPEG-4 video codec solution
Brian
Suing:
Tried MANY programs... This one works great and does it all.
Adding Windows medis encoding was a nice bonus. The overlay
feature is worth the price alone!
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - Blue Iris Review
Our
company was looking to install a couple cameras for basic asset
tracking. Nothing Big Brother, just your standard security
measures. After a bit of research I settled on the D-Link DCS-1110
camera. It has POE, which reduces the wiring, and advertised
motion detection and recording to a SMB share.
Of course, as with most D-Link things, the hardware works great.
The software...crap.
So I was forced to find an alternative. It soon became clear that
I needed to use the good hardware in conjunction with some good
software that could provide the motion detection and recording for
me. A little bit of Googling brought me to Blue Iris.
I was quite skeptical at first, primarily because the cost of the
product is so reasonable. Most of the other video products out
there either accompany cameras, or are ridiculously expensive, but
the full Blue Iris product can be had for $50.
I installed the demo, went in clean and quickly. No bloat here.
Next was to install the DCS-1110. Working with the interface was
great. There are *a lot* of options, but they are well laid out
over several tabs. I had some problems connection to the DCS-1110
properly, so I checked the help file. It has fairly detailed
information as well as some specific information on the D-Link
series of cameras. Tried everything I could, but no luck.
Convinced I was missing something, I contacted the developer by
email.
In the end, it was me - not the product - that had been mis-configuring
things. However, the real kicker was the support response time: 30
minutes. Working as an IT professional I can safely say that a 30
minute turn around time on a SUPPORT email is a very very rare
thing. I was immediately confident in the product. I get the
feeling they are a one or two man shop, which gives me the warm
fuzzies when buying from them.
We've since added a second camera, tinkered with the settings, and
really had continued success with the product. This stuff Just
Works. And that's so rare these days.
