User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Product overview
- Chapter 2 Installation
- Chapter 3 Getting started
- Chapter 4 Operating instructions
- Chapter 5 Live view
- Chapter 6 Controlling a PTZ camera
- Chapter 7 Playing back a recording
- Overview of the playback window
- Playback pop-up menu
- Instant playback
- All-day playback
- Playback skip time
- Searching recorded video
- Playing back recordings by time and video type
- Playing back recordings by event
- Creating and playing back bookmarked recordings
- Slideshow of snapshots
- Playing back recordings from the system log
- Playing back frame-by-frame
- Digital zoom in playback
- Chapter 8 Archiving recorded files
- Chapter 9 Using the web browser
- Windows 7 and 8 users
- Accessing the web browser
- Web browser overview
- Using the web browser to configure the device
- Searching and playing back recorded video
- Searching for event logs
- Recording from the browser
- Dual stream recording
- Controlling a PTZ dome camera in the web browser
- Capturing text insertions
- Text overlay
- Using a network storage system
- Chapter 10 Recording
- Chapter 11 Alarm settings
- Chapter 12 Network settings
- Configuring general network settings
- Configuring an NTP server
- Configuring e-mail
- Configuring SNMP
- Configuring UPnP
- Configuring an FTP server to store snapshots
- Configuring a remote alarm host
- Configuring multicast
- Configuring the server and HTTP ports
- Configuring the RTSP service port
- Telnet set up
- Checking network status
- Exporting network packet data
- Port forwarding
- Chapter 13 Storage management
- Chapter 14 Camera settings
- Chapter 15 Recorder management
- Chapter 16 User management
- Appendix A Specifications
- Appendix B PTZ protocols
- Appendix C Port forwarding information
- Appendix D KTD-405 keypad
- Appendix E Maximum pre-recording times
- Appendix F Supported PTZ commands
- Appendix G Default menu settings
- Index
Chapter 5: Live view
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Option
Description
TimeBar transparent
Modify the transparency of the menus on-
screen relative to the background to
make the menu screens easier to read or less prominent on-
screen. Default is
non-transparent.
Select one of the options from the check box.
Check the box to enable or disable and click Apply.
Enable TimeBar
Enable/Disable Time Bar in live view mode.
TimeBar size
Modify the size of the system time bar that always appears on-screen. The
sizes available are large, medium, or small.
Instant playback time
Modify the instant playback replay period. The time options are between five
to 30 minutes from actual time. Default is five minutes.
Enable logout lock
When the system logs out, the front panel is automatically locked.
To unlock the front panel, press the Live button for 5 seconds.
Menu timeout
Define the time in minutes after which the menu screen reverts to live view
mode.
Select a time from the drop-down list and click Apply.
Mouse pointer speed
Modify the speed of the mouse pointer.
Adjust the scroll bar point to the desired level and click Apply.
Configuring time and date
You can set up the date and time that will appear on-screen. It is not included in
recordings. This time and date display is separate from the embedded one that appears
for each camera (see ““Configuring the camera OSD settings” on page 125 for more
information on embedded camera time and date).
The start and end time of daylight saving time (DST) in the year can also be set. DST is
deactivated by default. See Figure 19 below for the Time settings screen.