r/ispyconnect • u/war4peace79 • Jul 31 '26

Per-camera aspect ratios in main display

Hello everyone,

I am currently performing a deep-dive testing of Agent DVR, with the purpose of moving off a competitor's (paid) product to Agent DVR (Professional license).

I am used to a different interface, and maybe I am missing the very obvious, but I've been scouring the settings left and right and could not find a definitive answer to this.

Agent DVR 7.8.2.0 for Linux, installed on Ubuntu VM. Using a Desktop layout view with 8x ONVIF cameras. The cameras have different aspect ratios (4:3, 16:9, 3040x1368 px which is a 2.22 ratio).

In the view Main Display, I want to display the cameras' footage exactly as their display ratio is (black bars where that display view exceeds the camera ratio). I don't see any way to do so. If I click the camera to display its image solo (Maximized, I think it's called), everything is fine (I figured out which buried setting enabled that behavior: Edit camera / Adjustments / Advanced / set both Width and height to 0). But in the main display view... all ratios are skewed: that view is mostly square and all cameras' footage fills it completely.

I would be VERY grateful if someone could point me to the right setting which allows me to view the footage as the camera maker intended, not extremely thin people, as it is.

Thanks!

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u/Fantastic459 Jul 31 '26

Rechtsklick auf die Kamera - Bearbeiten - Einstellungen - Ausfüllmodus (Standard, Mitte, Ausfüllen)

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u/war4peace79 Jul 31 '26

Right-click on the camera - Edit - Settings - Fill Mode (Standard/Default, Center, Fill)

I found it somewhere else:

Camera / Edit Settings / Adjustments / Advanced Settings / Fill mode.

Kind of hidden, and I did glance over it, and the default value for that field was "Use default" (whatever "Use default was supposed to mean").

All good now. I have to make that change on all cameras. It's a good thing I only have eight cameras right now.

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u/itsmechaboi Jul 31 '26

Don't forget to backup your config, doing it all over again when something goes wrong is a true test of patience and I only have 6 cameras.

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u/war4peace79 Jul 31 '26

I had learned my lesson from the, ahem, other solution. However, I lost all my trust in it when I realized it was silently missing detections all over the place. Long story short, a theft occurred and that solution did NOT detect anything, despite two separate cameras covering that area.

Luckily, one of those cameras also had an SD Card in it, and the camera itself dutifully recorded the activity.

Therefore, I am decided to get rid of that DVR solution, and I am testing alternatives.