AVerMedia® AVerDiGi EB1504 MPEG4/MPEG4+ Real Time Security DVR User Manual http://www.avermidea.com http://www.averdigi.
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Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction .......................................................................1 1.1 Package Contents...................................................................................... 2 1.2 Features and Specifications ....................................................................... 2 1.3 Front & Side Panel ..................................................................................... 3 1.4 Back Panel..........................................................
Chapter 1 Introduction AVerDiGi EB1504 MPEG4/MPEG4+ is a 4-channel stand-alone DVR unit that provides real-time monitoring and digital recording of surveillance video. Up to four video cameras and four sensor devices can be hooked up to this DVR unit. It also provides one audio input and output channel. Surveillance, digital recording and playback are controlled through the front panel buttons.
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Auto-detect NTSC or PAL video system Supports 2 hard drives (not included) Full-screen resolution: Display: 720 x 480 (NTSC), 720 x 576 (PAL) Recording: 720 x 480 (NTSC), 720 x 576 (PAL) Display frame rate: Total of 120/100 fps (NTSC/PAL) Recording frame rate: CIF mode: Total 120/100 fps (NTSC/PAL) D1 mode: Total 60/50fps(NTSC/PAL) Scheduled recording (00:00~23:00 set by hour ) Search for recorded videos by date/time/event Motion detection recording (EB1504 MPEG4+ Only) In
Name Function (4) 1/2/3/4/Quad : For ”1” : For “2” : For “3” : For “4” : For “0” If in QUAD record mode, user would not be able to view single channel in full screen i (5) Playback/OSD Menu Control Buttons : Use the buttons in playback mode to: : Display the play list and play the recorded video : Wind back the video playback at the speed of 2x, 4x, 8x or 16x : Fast play the video playback at the speed of 2x, 4x, 8x or 16x : Temporarily freeze the video playback : Stop video playback Use th
1.4 Back Panel Name Function (1) Audio Out : Output the audio signal to a speaker (2) Audio In : Input the audio signal from a mic or audio output device.
The “compatible hard disks” indicated in the above recommendation list only means that these commercially available hard disks were tested with AVerMedia products and functioned well under normal operation conditions. AVerMedia does not guarantee or provide warranties, explicitly, implied or statutory with respect to the reliability of the hard disk function or its compatibility.
7. Unlock the removable hard disk drawer then pull it out 8. Remove the removable rack cover 9. Connect the power connector to the 10. Carefully insert the hard disk in the hard disk (master) removable rack then replace the removable rack cover 11. Slide the drawer back 12. Lock the removable keylock 13. You may now connect all the cables.
1.5.2 Connecting Devices The back panel of the DVR unit, you can connect up to 4 video cameras, 4 sensor devices, 1 alarm device and output video to a TV or CRT/LCD monitor. Connecting the unit to a PC, through USB connection, the bundled software enables you to transfer, playback and segment the video.
1.5.3 Connecting the Sensor/Relay device The Sensor and Alarm ports enable you to connect (4) sensor inputs and (1) relay outputs. Just connect the external sensor and relay pin directly to the pinhole. Check the table below and locate which pinhole is assigned to sensor input and relay output. 1.5.3.1 I/O Card Sensor and Relay pinhole allocation: The signal from the sensor (i.e., infrared sensors, smoke detectors, proximity sensors, door sensors, etc.
1.6 Familiarizing the Remote Control Buttons Use the Remote control to operate the OSD menu on surveillance screen.
Button To move the select to left Fast play the video playback at the speed of 2x, 4x 8x or 16x ▼ ▼ (10) Reverse the video playback at the speed of 2x, 4x 8x or 16x ▼ ▼ ( 9) Function To move the selection to right Stop playing / Stop recording (11) To move the select to down To enter the OSD Main menu / Exit from the main menu or sub-menu display ▼ (12) To move the selection to the left and right ▼ (13) ▲ ▼ Make a selection (14) (15) To go up and down and select the items in the menu list or
Chapter 2 2.1 Operating the EB DVR System Using the EB DVR System for the First Time Upon connecting the power, the unit automatically detects the status of the hard disk. The hard disk must be formatted for the first time installed on DVR system. If (select) for YES to format the you are prompt to format the hard disk, press hard disk and (menu) for NO to remain unchanged. HARD DISKS INFORMATION VERSION 1 . 5. 03 HDD CHECKING . . . MASTER HDD SIZE 76GB 509MB HDD FORMAT YES (SELECT) / NO (MENU) 2.1.
D1 (A) HDD 29% CIF(A) Full Screen Preview HDD 29% QUAD Screen Preview When you are in full screen preview, press the following buttons on the remote control and control panel to switch to different channel, or preview all 4 channels: / 1 / 9 / CH2: Camera 2 CH1: Camera 1 2.3 3 / CH3: Camera 3 7 / 5 CH4: Camera 4 QUAD: 4-Channel Playback the Video If the unit is recording the video, you may have to stop video recording in order to do video playback. To stop video recording, press .
▲ ▼ Use the and or and buttons and select SEARCH TIME. 3. or again to make the selection. Then press In the SEARCH TIME, you may now select the date and time from where you want to begin ▲ 2. ▲ and time. Then press ▲ 4. ▼ ▼ or ▼ or and buttons to move the selection to the left and and again to make the selection. To start video playback, the time in second must be set. Use the selection to the left most. Use the ▲ and or ▼ or ▲ select the time in second.
Chapter 3 OSD Navigation Tree The follow figure is an OSD menu tree map. To call out the OSD menu, press on the remote control.
3.1 Menu Function If the unit is currently recording the video, you may have to stop video recording to change the settings. To navigate in the OSD menu, press to call up and exit from the main menu or sub-menu display. Then use the ▲ and ▼ or and buttons to go up and down and select the items in the menu list or ▼ ▼ make a selection. You can also use the button to enter sub-menu or and ▼ ▼ or ▼ ▼ , ▲ change the settings. Use the buttons to move the selection to the left and right.
OSD MENU Description LANGUAGE SETUP : Select from the available language RECORD SCHEDULE 00 : 00 - 01 : 00 ALWAYS REC 01 : 00 - 02 : 00 ALWAYS REC 02 : 00 - 03 : 00 ALWAYS REC ALWAYS REC 03 : 00 - 04 : 00 04 : 00 - 05 : 00 ALWAYS REC 05 : 00 - 06 : 00 ALWAYS REC 06 : 00 - 07 : 00 ALWAYS REC ALWAYS REC 07 : 00 - 08 : 00 ALWAYS REC 08 : 00 - 09 : 00 09 : 00 - 10 : 00 ALWAYS REC 10 : 00 - 11 : 00 ALWAYS REC 11 : 00 - 12 : 00 ALWAYS REC 12 : 00 - 13 : 00 ALWAYS REC SUBMENU PASSWORD CHANGE VIDEO ADJUSTMENT DA
OSD MENU SUBMENU PASSWORD CHANGE VIDEO ADJUSTMENT DATE TIME AUTO RECORD AUTO SCAN PASSWORD SETUP AUDIO RECORD AUDIO MUTE VIDEO SYSTEM COLOR STABILITY Description TIME : Set the current time. 2006 / 04 / 20 17 : 54 : 50 ON ON NO ON OFF NTSC OFF AUTO RECORD : Enable/disable auto continue recording when interrupted (i.e., power breakdown, video playback or configuration setup). It starts to record after 10 second of idleness. This is applicable in Always Record mode.
Description and buttons to select the or security combination number. Press ▲ button again to make the selection. Repeat till you key in the last number. The factory default password is 111111. Also, user could use number 2 6 5 8 4 7 9 ) 3 key ( 0 1 on the remote control to enter each digit of password. To move the selection to the left and ▼ ▼ right, use and ▼ ▼ OSD MENU buttons. CHECK PASSWORD ENTER PASSWORD 3.
OSD MENU SENSOR SETUP SENSOR REC TIME ALARM OUT TIME CHANNEL - 1 CHANNEL - 2 CHANNEL - 3 CHANNEL - 4 Description 010 010 NOT NOT NOT NOT SENSOR REC TIME : SEC SEC INSTALLED INSTALLED INSTALLED INSTALLED Set the amount of time (in second) to record when the sensor has been triggered. ALARM OUT TIME : Set the amount of time (in second) to continue sending the alarm once activated. CHANNEL 1~4 : Customize the initial state of the attached sensor. Refer to the table below to customize the sensor state.
Chapter 4 4.1 Using the USB Playback Console Recommended system requirements Pentium®4 2.4GHZ or above Windows®2000/ XP DDR 256 MB Graphic function must support DirectDraw Audio card or built-in Speaker 1 available USB2.0 port 4.2 Installing the USB Playback Console To install the USB Playback Console: 1. Place Installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. When the installation main screen appears, click Install USB Playback Console and then follow the on screen instructions 2.
4.3 Running the USB Playback Console To run the application, click the icon on the PC desktop (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (17) (12) (13) (16) Name (1) (14) (15) Function Video playback screen To select the video file for playing. The playback application supports *.dvr and *.avf file type. (2) Open File - DVR Recorded File (HD): To playback the recorded video from the hard disk which was recording video on the DVR system. (Also see 4.3.2) - Backup File(.
Name Function Select the event you want to playback. The event list only available when user select to playback in DVR Recorded File(HD). (3) Event List (4) Full screen Use the entire area of the screen to only display the video. To return, press the right button of the mouse or ESC on the keyboard. When you switch to full screen in multiple-screen mode, Left click to toggle to only display one of the video in the multiple-screen mode or all.
Name (17) Sound /Sound bar Function Turn on and off the sound Increase and decrease the volume 4.3.1 To Cut and Save the Portion of the Recorded Video 1. Use the Playback Control buttons or drag the bar on the playback progress bar and pause on where you want to start the cut. Then, click Segment to set the begin mark. 2. Use the Playback Control buttons or drag the bar on the playback progress bar and pause on where you want to end the cut. Then, click Segment to set the end mark.
4.3.3 Playback Backup File(*.dvr) 1. Click Open File button. 2. Select Backup File(*.dvr) and click OK. 3. Locate the backup file folder and click OK. i 4. When open the backup video file, just locate the where backup file is located. And then, Playback Date/Time Selection window appears. Select the date and time and click OK.
Chapter 5 5.1 Backup Recorded Video File Recommended system requirements Pentium®4 2.4GHZ or above Windows®2000/ XP DDR 256 MB Graphic function must support DirectDraw Audio card or built-in Speaker 1 available USB2.0 port 5.2 Familiarizing with HDD Backup Application (2) (1) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (10) Name (9) Function (1) All recorded video events list No.: the list order number Record: the record type(see also Chapter 2.3.
Name Function To select the hard disk drive (4) Source Disk (5) Target Path To locate on where user want to save the file (6) Event (%) Display the backup progress rate of event in percentage (7) Total (%) Display the total backup progress rate in percentage (8) Stop Stop backup progress (9) Start Start backup progress (10) Select All 5.3 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Select all listed recorded video events. Click the check box again to cancel for selecting all events.
7. 8. And then, all the recorded video files will list out. Select the event which user wants to backup. Or mark the Select All to select all listed recorded video event 9. Locate on where user wants to save the backup file 10. Click Start to process backup 11. To stop the backup progress, click Stop 12. To play the backup file, see 4.3.3.
Chapter 6 ImageVerification Image Verification is a watermark-checking program to identify the authenticity of a saved image (e.g. by snapshot). This program can only verify uncompressed bmp image files. 6.1 1. 2. 3. To Run the ImageVerification To run the ImageVerification application, click the Watermark button on USB Playback Console main interface. In the ImageVerification main interface, click Load Source Image and locate the image source. Click Verify Image to begin the process.
Chapter 7 iEnhance The bundled iEnhance is a video editing tool and can only be used with *.dvr video file. It allows you to adjust the video picture quality, segment and save the desire portion of the video, zoom in and out the image, and print or save the screen shot. You can also save the setting and apply it on other files. To run the iEnhance application, click iEnhnace button on USB Playback Application interface.
Name Function (10) History Box List all the actions. (11) Undo Delete the last action. (12) Noise Reduce Adjust the softness and repair the damaged colour. (13) Sharpness Improve the overall image by enhancing edges. This gives the image more depth. (14) Effects Gray Scale: convert the image into black and white (monochrome). Normalize: adjust the brightness intensity. Equalize: automatically adjust the images that are too dark. De-interlace: smooth out the overlying frames.
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Warranty Notice LIMITED WARRANTY AVerMedia TECHNOLOGIES, Inc. warrants this product to be free of defects resulting from faulty manufacture or components under the following terms: WARRANTY LENGTH Labor is warranted for (1) one year from the date of purchase. Parts are warranted for (1) one year from the date of purchase. Replacement products will be warranted for the remainder of the one year warranty period or (30) thirty days, whichever is longer.