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Picture History Readme

Picture History provides a way to digitally record the video feed from AXIS 2100, 2120, 2400, 2401, 2420, 241S, 242S, 240Q, 241Q devices across a LAN or the Internet. Capable of retaining several weeks of snapshots (limitation based on available hard disk space). Includes a Monitor application to ensure everything is running smoothly, and a Downloader application that retrieves images from the AXIS video server or camera.

Often used to record retail store cameras or to provide time-lapse progress of construction sites.

Requirements:

Picture History runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003 systems with a minimum 128MB memory.

For installations where several video servers/cameras are to be recorded, a machine with 7200rpm or faster hard disks and at least 512mb of memory is recommended. When using the included sample batch file (with xxcopy to delete old images) you should use two separate hard disks (not just separate partitions), a "system" disk for the Windows OS, monitor.exe, downloader.exe, and cleanup.bat to run from, and a "data" disk for the images to be saved to. Note that some RAID configurations may cause disk throughput to be slower, and thus cause more restarts of the downloader.exe application.

Installation:

** This program requires the Prerequisites Package: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Run-time Components
If you get an error when starting this software download this and run it to update/install the necessary DLL files.

Download Picture History

1) Extract the contents of the .zip file to C:\PICHIST
2) Modify config.ini as indicated (see comments and sample lines within the file)
3) Run monitor.exe (downloader.exe will be launched in a minute or re-launched automatically)

Related Links:

Axis, network cameras and video servers
XXCOPY, a versatile file management utility (delete saved images after X days)
DVR Viewer, rapid JPG image viewer (play saved images as a video)
JPGVideo, create an AVI from saved images
avi2vcd, convert AVI to MPG

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