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There I'm right with you. He was a repeat violent criminal. Allowing him to be out on bail (for $1,000, or for any amount at all) while awaiting trial for trying to run someone over was an unnecessary danger to the community I won't excuse. If it were my DA and my judge that allowed that, I'd be...

A few points: California's crime rates aren't that far off from national trends, according to this analysis. A little better than average on homicide; a little worse than average on property crime. I prefer California's stats to the national ones because getting murdered would be a bigger...

That's so vague that I don't even know if I think it's reasonable or not. It doesn't quote a specific DA, it doesn't say what a "stiff" penalty is, and it doesn't say what crimes.

Yes, you're right: I know the maximum sentence is not the minimum sentence, and I know plea bargains happen. I still think the maximum should be proportionate, and I don't blame making it so for high property crime rates. Here's my challenge: show me something that supports your points. If a...

Oh, I see in your bio that you're in South Dakota now. This page says "The theft of property or services worth $401 to $1,000 constitutes petty theft in the first degree, a class 1 misdemeanor. A guilty party faces up to one year in jail and a $2,000 fine." Before, California was a lot stricter...

I know this thread is really for mocking people like me rather than a serious debate spot, but I disagree. There's an important distinction between setting a proportionate punishment and eliminating punishment. The voters didn't decriminalize anything; as far as I can tell, the police did that...

I'm sort of serious. That's what would happen if they caught you every time, didn't do anything about it for a year, and then gave you the maximum punishment for each time. Seems pretty absurd but still makes more sense to me than claiming Californian voters decriminalized shoplifting.

Hi! I'm an actual California liberal. I voted for Proposition 47. I am the person being blamed in that video. Sorry to interrupt this festival of schadenfreude, but... The thing is, Proposition 47 didn't decriminalize anything. It recategorized some crimes. Shoplifting/petty theft under $950 is...

Reporting back in: Uniview: turns out they're also actively supporting the Uyghur genocide, so I skipped them. Hanwha: I concur with "priced higher"; so far I haven't found a recent model that I wanted to pay for. Reolink: based on experiments with a borrowed camera, I can certainly see why you...

Yes. You don't need to make Blue Iris go through the Dahua NVR; both NVRs can talk directly to the cameras if you have set up your network topology to allow this. In terms of the camera's network bandwidth, cameras typically have 100 Mbps Ethernet and main+sub streams together will typically be...

It's been a long time but I finally figured out what the SVC option does on my old Hikvision DS-2CD2032-I and newer Dahua 5442 cameras. At first I thought it did nothing. But: With SVC off ("level 1" on the Dahuas), each H.264 P frame depends on the frame immediately before. If you have the...

I might just buy one of their budget models as an experiment then. Thanks.

I'm not trying to avoid Chinese manufacturing chains altogether (basically impossible), but I am going to avoid companies that I believe are writing software for genocide. We all have our own lines; that kind of direct involvement is the one I've drawn. Thanks for the recommendation of Uniview...

I'm also looking for alternatives to Dahua and Hikvision. I'm happy with the technical quality of the cameras I already own from these brands, but IPVM says both these companies are writing custom software for genocide (Dahua, Hikvision). I can firewall away poor security practices and work...

Thanks! My first (of three) Amazon Black Friday IPC-T5442T-ZEs already arrived. Haven't mounted it yet but so far so good. With what firmware? I'm currently on 20201019.

I use a Pi4 as a NVR. No joke. It actually is powerful enough for the task, at least with on-camera rather than on-NVR analytics.

Thanks! That's good news. I'm considering buying the new IPC-HDW5442T-ZE so maybe I'll get to try SVC out for myself soon.

Do any of the popular models being sold today (like the Dahua IPC-HDW5442TM-AS) show support for SVC in their UI? Has anyone tried it (successfully or otherwise)? Is it temporal or spatial or both? This dahuawiki page shows a screenshot with a SVC option. It doesn't say what camera it came from.

Two of which—the IPC-HDW5442T-ZE (4MP, 1/1.8") this thread is named for, or the IPC-HDW3841T-ZAS (8MP, 1/2.8") mentioned in #12? I'm much more curious about the IPC-HDW5442T-ZE...

Right, when I receive a message I know what subscription it comes from. The lifecycle is something like this: I create a subscription via CreateSubscription. It gives me a URL. (in a loop) I call PullMessages on that URL, so it returns messages only associated with that subscription. (And...

Thanks for the suggestion! Yeah, I could do that. Even better, every PullMessages response has the current time and timeout time (see an example at B.6.2.2 in this pdf), so I can subtract and tell when the timeout is getting too far out. But every un/re-subscribe would be a moment where I could...

I'm writing my own NVR. I don't want it to depend on someone else's, even if I happen to have one available at the moment.

I'm developing a new NVR system. But it doesn't support motion detection yet, which is a must-have feature. I'd like to support on-camera motion detection because it should be possible without powerful NVR hardware, and it should be relatively easy for me to develop. Well, that's the...

Yeah, I'll probably end up using both the main and sub streams, but this isn't as good in a few ways: To support adaptive bitrate streaming, I'd want the streams' timestamps to match up exactly into a single ordering of all frames across both streams. I don't think that's possible with main vs...

Has anyone gotten the "SVC" option under Video/Audio to do anything? I believe this is supposed to be Scalable Video Coding (a single stream that can be downsampled in frame rate and/or quality) but it doesn't seem to work for me. Context: I'm writing my own NVR software. I would dearly love to...

I just tried my script on a Mac laptop, and seems to work. Only catch is that it's a bit slow over wifi. Packets get dropped occasionally, and my very simple TFTP server waits for the Hikvision device to re-acknowledge the last TFTP block rather than setting a short timer to resend if the most...

No, I've done it. This works, provided you configure the VM to use "bridged" networking (rather than NAT). There's very little you can't do in a VM. But you could also try my Python script, which should just work natively on the Mac. The instruction about setting up the IP address by running...

I found using the Hikvision TFTP server to be a pain, as I had to go out of my way to install a Windows VM for it. But this handshake really is very simple. I wrote a Python script for it. With this, you can use any TFTP server on any platform.