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TABLE of CONTENTS I. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS .............................................................................3 A. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS..................................................................3 B. SUGGESTED REQUIREMENTS .............................................................3 II. CENTRAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SETUP .............................................4 A. DVR SETUP .................................................................................................4 B. GROUP SETUP..
PREFACE DVR Central Management System (CMS) is a 16 views recording software which specific supports our H.264 DVR (Digital Video Recorder). This software can provide real-time monitor, record the video on PC and then playback the recorded video to the user. Moreover, the user can also setup the software recording method for the specific circumstances and performs video playback via Time and Event Search. I. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS A. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS i. ii. iii. iv. CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.
II. CENTRAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SETUP Please setup Central Management System step by step according to the following instructions. NOTE: User has to save “CMS software” folder to the wanted path (i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\ All Users\ Desktop) first, and then run file. A. DVR SETUP i. Click button to enter administrator page, and select tag. ii. Among DVR Setup page, click button to add DVR, and then fill in the information about the DVR(s) which is going to connect. iii.
iv. After complete the above setting, click button to perform the connection. If it is success for connection, the screen will pop-up the success information dialog box. (However, if it is failure for connection, the screen will pop-up the failure information dialog box.) NOTE: If the user wants to delete the connected DVR, select the DVR first and then click button to delete the DVR.
B. GROUP SETUP i. Click button to enter administrator page, and select tag. ii. Within Group Setup page, right click of the mouse on the Group List and select Add Group option. The new add Group 1 will display under the Group List. iii. Click Group 1 to expand this group. (NOTE: Each group can display 16 views.) iv. Finally, add the DVR channel into the new created Group. There are “Mouse Drag”, “View All” and “Individual Select” three methods.
a. Mouse Drag a-1. Select the DVR channel which is going to add into the Group View. a-2. Drag the mouse from the selected channel to the Group view. As the following example, b. View All b-1. Select the Group first and then right-click the button of the mouse on the DVR. After that, select View All option. b-2. Click the Group which is mentioned above and it will display all 16CH of DVR.
c. Individual Select c-1. Click DVR to expand all the DVR channels。 c-2. Right click the button of the mouse to select the channel which is going to add to the Group, and select the display view of the Group. c-3. After complete the selection, the Group view will display the DVR channel which just mentioned above.
v. After DVR channels add to the Group views, the user can change the name of each view. For the following example, vi. If the user wants the Group View only display I Frame, the user can click the View No. within the I Frame Only block to adjust the Real-Time display. (NOTE: Only display I Frame can increase the PC efficiency.
C. SYSTEM SETUP i. Click button enter to administrator page and then click tag. ii. Select the record path when operate Emergency record and Synchronization record. Moreover, click “Use Overlay” to decide to use overlay play mode or not (NOTE: Click “Use Overlay” can increase PC efficiency.). iii. Moreover, within system setup, the user can setup the time schedule of Sync Record as well. The setting steps are shown in the following, a. Regularly Sync Record Time Schedule Setup a-1.
b. Special-Time Sync Record Setup b-1. Select the Sync Record DVR from the drop down list. b-2. Select the Start and End Time of the DVR. b-3. Click button to finish special-time setup. As the following image, iv. After complete the setup, please click setting and press button to save the to exit System Setup page.
III. REAL-TIME MONITOR A. REAL-TIME IMAGE DVR Central Management System (CMS) is software which can control Multi-DVRs. Due to CMS is designed by “Group” concept, the software can combine different channels within different DVRs into ONE Group to perform real-time monitor.
B. BUTTON INSTRUCTION of REAL-TIME IMAGE i. ii. : When connected DVR has triggered events, these triggered events will be presented within this block. : Double-click the left button of the mouse on the triggered event of the Event List block, the live image will be transferred into the playback mode of this event. Click on this button back to the Live Image mode. iii. : System Log. Press this button can display the software system log which is including CMS start and close time and so on.
iv. : When click on the view, the digital zoom panel will be displayed to control the digital zoom in/out. v. : Snapshot. Select the view first and then click on this button to save the view image. vi. : PTZ controller interface. Provides Focus、 Zoom、IRIS、and Preset Point control. vii. : Emergency Record Status Light. viii. : Close the program. ix. : Get into administrator page. x. : Recorded video playback xi. : Emergency REC.
IV. EMERGEMCY RECORD & DATA BACKUP button to enter Emergency Record mode. Moreover, click Click button to perform data backup. The operating instruction is shown in the following. A.
i. Before operate Emergency Record, please click button to enter administrator page. ii. Then, select tag to enter to system setup page. As the following image, iii. Click on the drop down list of 1. Record Path block to select the HDD to save the Emergency Record file. After that, click on 2. button to save the setting. Finally, click on 3. button to exit System Setup page.
2. 1. 3. iv. Under the Real-Time Image mode, please click button to start Emergency Record. NOTE: This Emergency Record is for GROUP view recording. When start recording, the will become red. If the Emergency Record does not stop by the user, the system default for recording time of Emergency Rec. is 5 Minutes.
B. DATA BACKUP The Data Backup of DVR Central Management System is to backup the data from the connected DVR(s). i. Under the Real-Time Image mode, please click enter Download page. button to ii. Click DVR drop down list to select the backup DVR and then, it will display the DVR recorded time period on its right hand side. iii. Select the Start and End backup time.
iv. Click button to select data saved folder and then click to start backup. NOTE: 1. If the user wants to stop backup immediately during the backup period, please click button to stop it. 2. Each backup file will be named as START TIME. For example: (20080630154009.264) 3. The downloaded *.264 file has to be played by CMS software and R6 Viewer software. It has not supported by other media player.
V. VIDEO PLAYBACK Please click to enter Video Playback mode. A. VIDEO PLAYBACK Please select the Video Playback mode. There are DVR Search, Download File and Emergency Rec. three playback modes.
i. DVR Search a. Under the DVR Search playback mode, move the mouse to the right of the screen. SEARCH TOOL will pop-up. For the following example, b. Select the DVR first, then it will display the recording time of the selected DVR.
c. After selected the playback DVR, video playback will be operated by doing Event Search and Time Search. c-1. Event Search c-1-1. Select the playback HDD of DVR . c-1-2. After selected the HDD, it will display all trigger events to the following table. Double-click the left button of the mouse on the trigger event. For the following example, c-1-3. After finish the above setting, the playback screen will play the selected event video. c-2. Time Search c-2-1.
ii. Download File a. Select Download File option within Select Mode block. Then, click b. button to open the playback file. Select the file first and then click Open button to start playback.
c. Within the playback image, the user can use the seeking bar which is under the playback screen to find out the specific time-point.
iii. Emergency Rec. a. Select Emergency Rec. option within Select Mode block. The Record List block will pop-up on the left of the Select Mode block. b. Select the HDD which saved the Emergency Record file, and then double-click the left button of the mouse on the Emergency Record file which wants to playback.
iv. Sync Record a. Select Sync Record option within Select Mode block. The Record Index block will pop-up. b. After selected the hard disk, the drop down list will display the DVR(s) which has reserved the data of Sync Record. c. After selected the DVR, it will display the date which possesses the data of Sync Record.
period. (NOTE: The time period will become red while having Sync Record data.) d. Finally, double-click the left button of the mouse on the red time period to perform the video playback.
B. EXPERT IMAGE Image data can be export as JPG or AVI format. i. ii. Export as JPEG format: a. Click button. It will show the following dialogue box. b. The default filename will be named as “Img_channel_ yyyymmdd_hhmmss.jpg” format. The user can decide the filename and the saving path. Export as AVI format: a. Click button. It will show the following dialogue box. b. The default filename will be named as “AVI_ yyyymmdd_hhmmss.avi” format. The user can decide the filename and the saving path.
VI. DIGITAL ZOOM By enabling the digital zoom function, user can zoom in/out the image to get proper view. Digital zoom can be functionalized in live-viewing, playback viewing. The following figures refer to the digital zoom panel. There are three main components of digital zoom panel. i. ：Preview window. The image or video in the preview window is not live, the image frame will be updated within a time interval.
APPENDIX A: GRAPHIC CARD TEST TABLE The following list presents the graphic cards which have been tested with Network Recording Software Premium series.
