RE: Question for other Geovsion users

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you need to be logged into the Geovision software? If not, it'll
run in the background (maybe only a logon box on-screen) but all recording
etc will still continue. I run mine set to not log in on startup - saves
some CPU overhead etc.

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 08 February 2008 13:54
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: [ukha_d] Question for other Geovsion users
>
> Peeps, - do any of the Geovision users here have any idea how to make
> the ***king GV software obey the bloody "minimise"
commands.... - this
> is beginning to get right on my t1ts!!
>
>
>
> The GV software is in the startup group on my server, yet it
> abso-bloody-lutely will not honour the startup minimised setting on
the
> shortcut. Also, although it does obey the "minimise all"
(AKA "show
> desktop") command, - it only does so for as long *all* other
windows
> also remain minimised, - as soon as any other applications window is
> displayed, the poxy Geovision window maximises itself again... pretty
> much the only way to get the bloody thing off the screen is to use
it's
> own "minimize" menu command. Even then, I periodically
observe that the
> window is displaying again if I go back to the console after a
> while....
>
>
>
> This might not sound like a big deal, except that 90% of my access to
> the server is via RDP from a remote location, over a mobile broadband
> link of variable quality. The video streaming from the GV software
> window *absolutely cripples* such a connection, and it does it *so*
> badly, that the GV software itself seems to think there is a problem
of
> some kind, and goes into an endless terminate-itself & restart
itself
> loop, - making it even more difficult (nay impossible) to actually get
> to the minimise menu option, and so the whole server spirals onto its
> arse in an ever-worsening collapse until it usually ends up rebooting
> itself, whereupon the whole cycle repeats itself if I attempt to
> connect
> again, since the software is in the startup group, and won't startup
> minimised....
>
>
>
> I've tried to allay the problem by setting the options on the RDP
> session appropriately, - i.e. turn the video quality right down to the
> minimum, & this does help. Thing is, that option is only available
if I
> use the full MSTSC client, and I tend to prefer to use the MMC hosted
> version, because I've built a custom MMC console that allows me to
very
> conveniently see & connect to all the various remote desktops that
I
> need to from a single interface. Using the MMC, I don't have any
> options
> to tune down the video quality (at least not that I can find in the
> UI).
>
>
>
> So I either have to choose between my custom MMC console, OR a
separate
> session that doesn't kill the server if the GV software happens not to
> be minimised for any reason. - This is a compromise I shouldn't have
to
> make, and it's only forced on me by the piss-poor programming
decisions
> made by Geovision coders... (Frankly, Windows app designers should be
> forced to obey Windows UI conventions under pain of having their
> nadgers
> slammed between 2 breeze blocks).
>
>
>
> Has anyone found a way to make this damn bloody software bend to their
> will?
>
>
>
> (Apart from this issue, the GV software is great!)
>
>
>
> Paul G.
>
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