Peter P wrote:
> The flicker is caused by the camera's shutter which steps down to very 
> fast
> times to compensate for high light levels. You can fix it by using an ND 
> filter
> or an aperture (F-stop) == black cardboard with small hole taped in front 
> of the
> lens. This will yield a grainy picture. Keep enlarging the hole until most 
> of
> the grain is gone. If you enlarge too much the flicker noise bars will 
> return.
>
> Imho resist the temptation to flash the camera(s). You could end up with 
> an
> expensive camera mockup. Sometimes some settings must be accessed via 
> telnet or
> such because someone clever forgot to put it in the web interface. Try to 
> read
> the manual carefully.

Thanks for the explanation, Peter. I read the manual, and researched the 
problem in some depth before making the post. Unfortunately, I couldn't find 
anything about fixing the flicker problem or Telnet.

I made a follow-up post yesterday, but OE stripped out the [OT] tag :(

Here it is again:

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ROFL! :-D

After I made the post, I Googled some more, and found this page:

http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDownload/Trendnet-TVIP-Firmware-Download-19073.html

Being the risk taker that I am, I downloaded the firmware and installed it
on the DCS-900 (oh come on, it's only $80)... it worked!

      Device Status
       Camera Name : DCS-900 [7F8638]
       Location :
       Model : TV-IP100


So my DCS-900 now thinks it's an IP100! Anti-Flicker On -- flicker problem
gone!

Vitaliy

PS Any ideas of where in the TrendNet docs it would explain why what I did
is illegal?

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