He restarted the software. The cooling fans of the workstation roared like a jet engine, but the result was the same. The NetSDK error was a digital wall, a gatekeeper refusing him entry. In the world of surveillance, NetSDK was the language the hardware spoke to the software. If the SDK was returning an error, it meant the connection was severed, the file was corrupted, or—more chillingly—something was actively blocking the stream.
Lack of administrative privileges can prevent the software from initializing the necessary network drivers for playback. He restarted the software