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I encourage skepticism! yes, the software were developed by the lowest bidder and every single one of them all had weird shit slapped in that got in the way of core functionality. I suspect part of that weird shit was that they were trying to keep people from accessing the files without their software. (As if the DVR didn't save it as h.264 or whatever.)
I've been in contract security for over a decade now- and my first post way back ages ago was "slow" to get rid of theirs in 06. (they had ordered their VHS's in bulk so they wanted to go through them first. I think they cracked open the last pack around the time I was hired.)
I've used more systems than I care to count or name; and usually became "the guy" that knew how to actually get it to do "the thing". The worst part of that is most of the people selling the software clients would go tits up in a few years, which gets sold to another dev what doesn't bother to learn the lessons from last time anyways. They just wanted one thing from the code or they had an idiot project manager that thought starting from failed code would be a good way to go.
In any case, because of how the multiplexing VCRs worked, the video playback was always choppy. they'd record using NTSC or PAl at 30 or 25 fps; just like any standard VCR, except that each camera would record each frame in sequence. a 4-chanel (four cameras) would reduce the NTSC's 30 FPS to 7. which looks like this. a 16 channel system would go down to 2 fps. Given the nature of the facility, I would assume they're using 16x systems.
Damn dude, these are legendary "this guy knows his shit" comments.