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Jehannum said:
I sure don't.

I just keep a 14 day backlog of video on my NFS server that's purged by a cron job. If I need anything in that window, I can just zip into the directory (it's organized by date and hour of the day), get what I need, ffmpeg it into MP4, and go about my business.
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wtf format is it in to start with that you have to convert it? you said you have dahuas, they direct save to h.265 or h.264
 
Domon said:
wtf format is it in to start with that you have to convert it? you said you have dahuas, they direct save to h.265 or h.264
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They save it currently as .dav.

I haven't dug in and seen if there's an alternative in the firmware, because it's a shell script and 2 seconds to convert, and I've needed to do it once.
 
Domon said:
sometimes its almost like you dont actually understand modern technology
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I'm confused, so maybe I don't understand your use case.

Mine's fairly straight forward. The camera writes to an NFS share that it happens to be on the ethernet with. The NFS server has a cron job for retention policy. At no point does the camera footage go anywhere that would 1) count against the cap I have with Comcast, or 2) to someone whose privacy policy is less restrictive than mine.
 
Jehannum said:
They save it currently as .dav.

I haven't dug in and seen if there's an alternative in the firmware, because it's a shell script and 2 seconds to convert, and I've needed to do it once.
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ahh, this appears to be a old 2015ish dahua thing. The new ones save in mp4.
 
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Jehannum said:
I'm confused, so maybe I don't understand your use case.

Mine's fairly straight forward. The camera writes to an NFS share that it happens to be on the ethernet with. The NFS server has a cron job for retention policy. At no point does the camera footage go anywhere that would 1) count against the cap I have with Comcast, or 2) to someone whose privacy policy is less restrictive than mine.
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live view != footage
 
Jehannum said:
Yeah, but live view didn't get you $2200 in insurance money, footage did.

I'm saying I don't have any use for live view, and you haven't really made a case for it.
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i use it every day to check in on pets, family, if i get vehicle alerts or package alerts, just to quickly check what it was, etc
 
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Domon said:
i use it every day to check in on pets, family, if i get vehicle alerts or package alerts, just to quickly check what it was, etc
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If I'm not at home to begin with, it's unlikely that I'll be in a place that has access to any cloud providers, so it's a non-starter for me at this point.
 
Weren't the marketing folks going to rename the A2ACTU to the "poo poo pew pew" or something cuter/fancier?

Or is it still in the engineering development stage
 
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Percy Thrillington said:
the A2ACTU is a huge hit in some parts of japan and san francisco
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For fun, here is the genesis of genius:

New docking idea...

so has anyone ever thought of docking assholes? Do you think you pass poop back and forth?
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And the first mention of the A2ACTU:

I think my ass is bleeding

Oh yay drama :rolleyes: I think people forget the P in PM stands for Private I think you forget brown people's need for page views!
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and that genesis came from an ooooold internet video of a kid who's sexting with like 30 year old lady (comedy, not kiddie porn). The poop goes back and forth forever.
 
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