Early video equipment failure detection system

A video camera system comprising:

• one or more video cameras;
• a video recorder in communication with each of the one or more video cameras;
• a video analytics module, the video analytics module being a computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
• obtaining video parameters of a plurality of video frames received at the video recorder, the plurality of video frames being transmitted from the one or more video cameras to the video recorder;
• determining an abnormality within the video parameters;
• and
• identifying a malfunctioning video camera of the one or more video cameras that produced the abnormality within the video parameters,
• wherein the video parameters include:
• a video frame lost ratio and the abnormality is the video frame lost ratio being greater than a selected value;
• a video frame rate and the abnormality is the video frame rate being outside a selected range;
• a video packet lost ratio and the abnormality is the video packet lost ratio being greater than a selected value;
• or
• a video packet rate and the abnormality is the video packet rate being outside a selected range.