User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Copyrights and Trademarks
- Disclaimer
- Welcome to NetVision
- Common / Daily Tasks- 5 Starting your Software and Logging In
- 6 Alarm / Reporting Features and 'Chatting'
- 7 Playing or Downloading Video Recordings- 7.1 Overview--Types of Playback
- 7.2 Playback--Technical Details
- 7.3 Synchronized Playback (v2.3 SP2)
- 7.4 Video Search (v2.3 SP2)
- 7.5 Searching for Motion
- 7.6 Working with the Playback Screen
- 7.7 Viewing and Printing 'Snapshots'
- 7.8 Working with the File List
- 7.9 Quad Playback
- 7.10 Server Management--Identifying Remote Servers for Playback
 
- 8 Viewing Live Cameras
- 9 Recording Camera-Views
 
- System Administration and Maintenance- 10 Tasks Applicable to Remote Stations and the Video Server- 10.1 PC Date and Time
- 10.2 Checking your Software Version
- 10.3 Introduction to Video File Management (Filekeeping and Housekeeping)
- 10.4 To Allow Using a Blank CD (Roxio - Easy CD Creator 5 basic with DirectCD)
- 10.5 Filekeeping (v2.3 SP2)
- 10.6 Housekeeping
- 10.7 Automatic Video File Management (Self Housekeeping)
 
- 11 Tasks Performed at the Video Server Only
 
- 10 Tasks Applicable to Remote Stations and the Video Server
- System Configuration
- Software Installation and Network Set Up- 19 PC Requirements
- 20 Software Installation or Upgrade
- 21 Network and Connectivity Issues- 21.1 General Network Requirements
- 21.2 IP Addressing on the Network
- 21.3 Network Services
- 21.4 Network Ports
- 21.5 To Connect via the Internet
- 21.6 Remote User Permissions
- 21.7 For Remote Viewing, Recording, Playback, and/or Audio Monitoring
- 21.8 For Alarm Alerts
- 21.9 For E-Mail Alerts
- 21.10 Windows Dial-Up Networking Connection (i.e., not via the Internet)
- 21.11 Network Usage
 
 
- Reference Topics- 22 Using the Small Remote Module
- 23 Remote Configuration
- 24 The WatchDog Feature
- 25 Hardware Reference
- 26 Troubleshooting
- 27 Using the ATM Interface Option
- 28 Working with the Older Playback Engines- 28.1 The Video Playback Feature (Micro DVR)
- 28.2 Step 1: Open the Video Player
- 28.3 Step 2: Local / Remote, and Connection Screen
- 28.4 Step 3: Searching for Video/Alarm Files
- 28.5 Smart Motion Search (Micro DVR)
- 28.6 Step 4: Playing a Video
- 28.7 Window Options and File Properties (Micro DVR, Quad Player)
- 28.8 Viewing and Printing 'Snapshots' (Micro DVR)
 
- 29 Viewing Cameras through a Web Browser
- 30 Setting up an IP Camera or Video Server module (v2.3 SP2)
- 31 Panoramic Video Surveillance--PVS (v2.3 SP2)
 
146  NetVision Plus/Elite and Micro DVR v2.3 SP2 User's Guide  21-0400E v2.3.3 
Browser................................................... 106, 133 
Remote configuration..................................106 
Viewing Cameras through a Web Browser .133 
Camera and PTZ Reference...........................111 
Camera image problems.................................119 
Camera name ...................................................77 
Camera sequence.............................................78 
Camera Setting (under Utility)...........................77 
Camera table (for PTZ cameras) ......................79 
Camera titles.....................................................77 
Camera video sync adjustment.........................84 
Camera views ...................................................15 
Alarm / Recording Status Indications at a 
Video Server (Camera Number Colours) ..15 
Camera views 
Recording Camera-Views .........................44 
Cameras ..................... 37, 38, 74, 75, 77, 78, 101 
Auto Alarm Display (v2.3 SP2)......................74 
Cameras to Appear in Sequential Viewing....78 
Network usage............................................101 
Set Up Alarm Overlays (v2.3 SP2)................75 
Set up Cameras and Titles ...........................77 
Setting the Display and Viewing Cameras ....38 
Viewing Cameras from a Remote Station .....37 
Cameras to Appear in Sequential Viewing........78 
Cameras with Sound.........................................81 
Camera-views way too bright (disable cameras if 
not present)...................................................77 
Capturing Video Frames...................................26 
Capturing Video Frames (Micro DVR) ............132 
CD burner .........................................................49 
Changing a Camera's View (Pan/Tilt/Zoom).....40 
Changing operators ..........................................11 
Chat ..................................................................16 
Chat Server.......................................................58 
Chatting on-line with a Video Server.................16 
Chatting On-line with a Video Server................16 
Check the PC Date and Time ...........................48 
Checking your Software Version.......................48 
Clock.................................................................48 
PC date and time ..........................................48 
Codec................................................................85 
CODEC.............................................................65 
For a remote station......................................65 
For the small remote module (look for Online 
View) .......................................................104 
Codec (for the Video Server).............................85 
Codec (in DSR Configuration -- Recording Setup)
......................................................................85 
Codec Configuration .........................................85 
Colour ...............................................................15 
Button colours (display & recorder panels)....15 
Commissioning..................................................64 
Configuration Introduction .............................64 
Common / Daily Tasks .10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 
20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 30, 35, 37, 38, 40, 44, 131 
Alarm / Recording Status Indications at a 
Video Server (Camera Number Colours) ..15 
Capturing Video Frames ...............................26 
Capturing Video Frames (Micro DVR).........132 
Changing a Camera's View (Pan/Tilt/Zoom) .40 
Chatting On-line with a Video Server ............16 
Identifying Remote Servers for Playback ......35 
Logging Out¸ Changing Operators¸ or Shutting 
Down.........................................................11 
Playback methods supported........................17 
Playback Window Options and Video/File 
Properties (Micro DVR) ...........................131 
Playback--Technical Details..........................17 
Playback--Working with the File List (v2.3 SP2)
..................................................................27 
Playing or Downloading Video Files (Micro 
DVR) .......................................................124 
Power Up and Windows Log In .....................10 
Quad Playback..............................................30 
Recording Camera-Views .............................44 
Responding to Alarm Alerts...........................12 
Searching for Motion in videos......................22 
Setting the Display and Viewing Cameras.....38 
Starting the Netvision Software.....................10 
Synchronized Playback (v2.3 SP2--server only)
..................................................................18 
System I/O Primer.........................................12 
Video Search (v2.3 SP2)...............................20 










