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 You basically have three options when it comes to software: You basically have three options when it comes to software:
  
-1) use your personal computer as the recorder; +1) use your personal computer as the recorder;\\ 
-2) use the camera manufacturer's software/firmware; +2) use the camera manufacturer's software/firmware;\\ 
-3) use a manufacturer's network video recorder (NVR) (aka the camera manufacturer's proprietary hardware recording unit); or +3) use a manufacturer's network video recorder (NVR) (aka the camera manufacturer's proprietary hardware recording unit); or\\ 
-4) some combination of the above.+4) some combination of the above.\\
  
 I opted to use my PC as the recorder, but let's go into options 2 and 3, this will allow me to explain why I rejected those options. To the best of my knowledge, you can connect to any IP camera with a web browser. When you do this you usually won't get a video signal, you mainly get the ability to change the settings in the camera. However, some of the cameras allow you download a browser extension and then you should be able to get the video that way. The problem with this is it's not really handy to view all of your security cameras on your computer's web browser. You'd need four instances of the browser going to view four different cameras. Also, this doesn't really record video to your computer. That being said, a lot of cameras will allow you to save video to a memory card inside the camera. You may be able to download video saved this way over the network somehow, but you might have to open up the camera and pull the memory card. I think it depends on the features of each particular camera. I think this is a viable solution if you only have one or two cameras and you make sure you can download the videos. You should be able to do so with the manufacturer's software which is often available for your cell phone. So if you want to use your cell phone to control your cameras and to view video from your cameras, then option 2 makes quite a bit of sense.  I opted to use my PC as the recorder, but let's go into options 2 and 3, this will allow me to explain why I rejected those options. To the best of my knowledge, you can connect to any IP camera with a web browser. When you do this you usually won't get a video signal, you mainly get the ability to change the settings in the camera. However, some of the cameras allow you download a browser extension and then you should be able to get the video that way. The problem with this is it's not really handy to view all of your security cameras on your computer's web browser. You'd need four instances of the browser going to view four different cameras. Also, this doesn't really record video to your computer. That being said, a lot of cameras will allow you to save video to a memory card inside the camera. You may be able to download video saved this way over the network somehow, but you might have to open up the camera and pull the memory card. I think it depends on the features of each particular camera. I think this is a viable solution if you only have one or two cameras and you make sure you can download the videos. You should be able to do so with the manufacturer's software which is often available for your cell phone. So if you want to use your cell phone to control your cameras and to view video from your cameras, then option 2 makes quite a bit of sense. 

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