Specialty Solutions For H.265 Devices Compatible With Milestone. Audio, Fisheye, WDR With ~UHD

Yeah, looks good -- but again, I'm looking for something that in which both the camera and Milestone support -- are Milestone will soon support H.265 for the unit. 

There's only ONE ... (literally) 8MP, H.265 Fisheye supported for Milestone - and that's the Dahua. Do you think that'd be a bad choice? If not, (and I can get it for about $380) ... good, one down, many to go. 

The frustrating part is that if I stuck with a Dahua NVR, and then Dahua cameras I could use H.265 ... as I think the Dahua has the cheapest price for H.265 with 8MP devices capable of 30 FPS. 

But now the trick is going to be how long I should wait for Milestone to "create drivers" for the cameras I'd like to use... and while I rarely lose much trying out security equipment (I tend to sell things for about what I paid by getting things at decent prices)...I was hoping that Milestone's support for H.265 would be a tad bit more flexible, allowing me to choose the products I love. 

:-( 

(Thank you for the feedback)

I've been looking for a company like yours, thank you!

I want a Mic + Speaker that work via the networking it'd be proximal to. This way I can bundle it with the video which is already using the IP cabling, etc. 

Do you know of a unit or two that would be pretty good (but not exorbitant) for this?

Thanks again. :) 

Yup, and if there's one thing I'm versed in, it's dealing with bits vs. bytes, as that's something I have to explain regularly. 

I don't believe it was an issue of throughput, and further, as I never looked at the file sizes that the Dahua NVR's truncated files to, I wouldn't even know which file size to perform the speed test and IOPS tests to check the health of the drives (and speed) nor their IOPS; which for all I know, could be more important. I do however know, that switching to 7200 RPM was PAINFUL in comparison to even just an EVO 840.

Of course, there really are too many factors to evaluate what the bottleneck was without doing experiments -- with my limited knowledge of surveillance systems. 

I could try using 1 spinning drive per camera (only 5 cameras are working! right now, because the freaking Milestone refuses to acknowledge my Bosch Fisheye. 

For reliability and long(er) term storage, irrespective of performance, I was going to use iSCSI via our local NAS to back everything up. 

Just to beat the dead horse... spinning drives suck! Under 1000 IOPS. SSDs do 90,000+ nowadays. I might just pay the price and fill my Milestone server up with 8TB (4x 2TB SSD) for short term storage... and use my NAS, which will be like 24TB for long term. Perhaps 20FPS for iSCSI/NAS ... and 30FPS for SSD.  

(I now have another question for the group which I'll make another post for)...

At what bitrate do I

1. start losing noticeable quality with H.264s bitrate?
2. decrease the life-span by making the SoC/Processor over-work?
3. what would you guys typically regard as optimal? 

I can increase the duration of my storage... but I'd rather buy more hard drives than burn out cameras... or get crappy images in playback. 

How do I know the optimal bitrate for the cameras I have...so I don't over-work them by making them work harder trying to compress data to a higher degree all day -- when these things don't (to my knowledge) have fans in them...