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Beatrix Gerke

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:50:41 PM8/3/24
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I have put in a camera (HIKVision) at the entrance to housing development that is a stand alone camera with a mini sd card recording events. The idea being that if there is an event you retrieve the sd card and check it out. Problem I am having is the HIKVision software is not so great, its buried in there NVR software and does not play backward. MP4's will play on windows media player but there are no features such as play in reverse or zoom. Anybody have any recomendations on a player?

Hikvision mp4 files will not play back on windows media player. This is a problem for municipalities. Other problem is that download usually creates multiple video files. You can use vsplayer to "merge" these files. If this is for customer whi only has media player, you can use "convert" to format in a way that can be played. I hope Hikvision can address and correct on future releases of ivms4200 soon. Downloading and delivering playable video to the DA is the primary reason we have these systems. An .exe format option would be at least a start with authentication/watermarking built in.

I have my page of instructions created from trial and error and customized so I can help a customer when needed. I wish I could explain a simpler method of "start" "stop" "export". Come to think of it, I am not sure I know of a customer that was able to successfully export video evidence from a Hikvision system on their own that could be delivered to police/da for playback. Very complicated with no reliable "how to" manuals.

I am having luck with the VS Player and with Digital Watchdog, I need to get familiar with both as dragging the timeline in DW does not behave the way I think it should. I am used to Milestone where you actually see the video change when dragging the timeline, does not seam to be the case with DW, zoom is great though. Thanks for all your insight, your help is greatly appreciated!

Hi, I have some free time, so thought to spruik my project a little. It's a bug fix and usability fork of Scid which i've been doing the last year. Check out my web page for some background info at www.scidvspc.sf.net

Major changes include much needed cosmetic work (including heaps of new chess pieces), and many fixes to the tactical game feature. Scid is such an ugly and buggy thing, and i hope my project is making some amends.

Anyway, I'm quite happy with the project, but haven't had a heap of feedback. I just realised the other day that the fics feature is broken... it's anonymous login only at the moment! but will be fixed soon. To check it out on Windows, just unzip the windows archive _id=263836&filename=scid_vs_pc-windows-3.6.26.5.zip , browse to the bin directory and double click scid.exe. For Linux/BSD users, there's instructions on the webpage. I'm mostly a Linux guy, but it works fine on Windows.

You seem to have broken something. Scid compiles happily on a Mac and Scid_vs_pc appears to do so. However, the compiled app doesn't run. I haven't a clue what is wrong, I leave all the techie stuff to the techie guys. Your version looks nice so I'd like to get it running if I could.

Hmmm... It may be broken on Macs, or it may just be a start-up thing with Tcl. I'd like to fix this, as OSX is a great platform. I have some Mac code to include which may fix it. I'll try to make a new release today :)

Thanks for this. It still doesn't work but I don't think this is the place to be sorting it out, if you still wish to sort it to run on Macs. I have sent you a PM with some details of what happens and an email address you can use for further discussion if you wish.

* A new Fics accept/decline widget, which allows for multiple offers to be handled nicely (and minor Fics bug-fixes)
* New "Random Pawns" feature for the Tactical game.
* Some work with the crosstable and player info widgets (which is only evident with spelling.ssp - now included by default)
* And many minor fixes and speed improvs.

Shane's Chess Information Database is a powerful Chess Toolkit, withwhich one can create huge databases, run chess engines, and playcasual games against the computer or online with the Free Internet ChessServer. It was originally written by Shane Hudson , and has received strongcontribution from Pascal Georges and others.

Scid vs. PCbegan with bug-fixes for the computer-versus-player features of Scid (hence the name), but has evolved intoa solid alternative with many new features and interfaces. The projectis authored byStevenaaus and numerouscontributors (thanks).
2. Features Seechanges for a comprehensive changelog, or thegallery for some screenshots..

Extra chess pieces (such as Berlin) are now enabled by default for Wish 8.6, but 8.5 requires installing TkImg. Sound support requires the buggy library Snack.
If your distro does not provide these packages ("tkimg", "tcl-snack"), you can install from source using these links (both of which have fixes applied).
TkImg,Snack.

The configuration files, including the chess engine list, are storedin the Scid-vs-PC\bin\config directory, and may be copied over fromold versions to make upgrading easier. If the app is installed in "Program Files" On Windows 7, the config files are mirrored inC:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Scid vs PC

Due to technical build reasons, only Mac OSX 10.10 and later are supported. Previous versions (including Snow Leopard) should install Scid vs Mac 4.16). Additionally, Newer macOS have removed 32-bit app support, and are only supported by our beta ScidvsMac-x64 app, which is not as robust as the 32 bit version.

I've been messing with OS X and noticed an issue with the 4.8 build - which was made on Snow Leopard. Luckily i've kepy my OS X 10.5 around, and have made a new build with it (which also includes PPC support). Macs are lovely things .... when they work.

For the tenth release I've adopted verison number 4.0 . It includes a new Computer Tournament feature (thanks to some UCI snippets from Fulvio) and the Gamelist Widget is finally up-to-speed for large databases.

The monkey on my back has really been having a good time. This release includes changes to the Gameinfo, Comment Editor, and Board Style widgets, some new chess pieces, colour schemes and tiles. Thanks to Michal and Alex for feedback.

Docked Windows allows one to arrange many of Scid's sub-windows as tiles and tabs in a single toplevel.Rearranging of windows takes a little practice, but there are two methods. Grabbing the windows tab , one can drag and drop them over other window's tabs. Alternatively, right-clicking on the tab displays a menufrom where one can dislodge them relative to the current window. Right-clicking the main board showsa menu for hiding various parts of the window.

Playing against the ComputerThe main Computer vs. Player feature is accessed from Play->Computer.Here you'll find options to play against Phalanx (a flexible computer opponent whose skill you canselect), or any installed UCI engine.

Playing on the Internet is done via the thePlay->Internet menu item. I recommend visiting the Fics website to create a useraccount, but it is also possible to play anonymously. To start a game,press the Login as Guest button, then watch the available games as they areannounced in the console. Enter play [game number] to accept agame challenge.

  • Openseal is an open source version of FICS Timeseal. It needs some rewriting to work with Scid, though it is a small program.
  • FICS could be adapted to work with the ICC. The work involves analysing the differences in the strings used by the two programs. (for example, for FICS we have this line to ackowledge successful log-in if string match "*Starting FICS session*" $line] { The two servers do have many similarities i think, and examining xboard's "backend.c" (or some other client) for "FICS" particularities
  • Translation updates
  • The TCL sound package, Snack, needs a maintainer.
  • There are two engine types - UCI and XBoard. Pascal's UCI code is in some ways inferior to Shane's Xboard code. Though this is mostly mitigated by the speed of modern processors, it'd be nice to make use of the UCI ponder feature in analysis mode (Comp mode already does so).
  • Verify/update the Novag Citrine drivers and interface, and Correspondence / XFCC feature.
  • Our Windows port needs a little overhaul to properly use Users home directory to store all the various data. I will get around to doing it one day though.
  • A lot of people use chessbase books (.ctg). Scid can only readpolyglot opening books, but inlining Scidb's support for ctgmay not be too hard.

Thanks to Shane Hudson and the authors ofTcl/Tk.ToGregor Cramer for new features and technical support.Ozkan for his Win64 builds and knowledgable help.Christian Opitz for his comprehensive German translation. Sourceforge.net for their great hosting,Jiri Pavlovsky for thewindows installer.Thanks to Pascal Georges for his many technical contributions to mainline Scid, and also Fulvio, Gerd and the language translators.To Gilles, Dorothy and Steve for OS X support, to Michal Rudolf for early encouragement, andH.G.Muller for technical feedback.

Scid is a huge project, with an interesting history. Originally authored byShane Hudson from New Zealand, it combined the power of Tk's GUI andthe speed of C, to produce a free Chess Database application withOpening Reports, Tree Analysis, and Tablebase support.It gained quite some attention, as it was arguably the first project of it'skind; but after writing over a hundred thousand lines of code, in 2004 developmentstopped and Shane never contributed to Scid again.

Two new versions of Scid appeared around 2006. The first was ChessDBauthored by Dr. David Kirby. With some good documentation andthe ability to automatically download games fromseveral web portals, it became popular. But at the same time Pascal Georges from Francewas making strong technical improvements to Scid. Frustrated with Scid's dormancy,and because of disagreements with ChessDB's author, Pascal released his own tree, Scid-pg, whichincluded UCI support and numerous Player versus Computer features.

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