Mike Puchol

Are there any security DVRs out there with Mac OS support?

It’s unreal – every single multiple-input dedicated DVR I am looking at for taking care of recording my home’s CCTV setup, only supports Windows. When network access is provider, it invariably involves loading an ActiveX control, which of course is not supported in OS X. Even more ridiculously, manufacturers such as AverDigi, a branch of AverMedia, claim to run “embedded Linux” as some sort of badge of honor!

Let me get this straight – you use embedded Linux so that you can serve Windows-only ActiveX-infested web interfaces? Far worse, many of them use weird codecs that come in their Windows-only install CDs, which means that you’ll have to go back to a Windows machine or a VM in order to use these things. Mobile support of course isn’t much better, with Windows Mobile devices supported, again, via ActiveX, and Symbian via Java applets.

I’ll keep searching, but my hopes are fading…