Instruction Manual Optional PC Playback Software for Digital Recorder Model DX-PC10E (ver.1.0.0) Please read and accept the “ End User Software Licence Agreement “ using this software. (Refer to P.2 of this instruction manual) before For Windows R 98SE For Windows R 2000 For Windows R Me Microsoft, Windows, IntelliMouse are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation in the US and other regions. (The official name of Windows is Microsoft Windows Operating System.
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Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Product Features 1.2 Operating Environment 1.3 Compatible Digital Recorders 2 Installation 2.1 Installation Method 2.2 Uninstalling DX-PC10E 2.3 Starting/Ending a Session 3 Main Window: Display & Operation 3.1 Main Image Field 3.2 Operation Panel (Top) 3.3 Operation Panel (Bottom) 3.4 Information Panel 3.5 Status Bar 3.6 Shortcuts Menu 3.7 Hint Display 4 File Menu 4.1 Media… Command 4.2 Save As… Command 4.3 Convert… Command 4.4 Print Command 5 Edit Menu 5.
8.3 Bookmarks A, B Command 8.4 Repeat between A and B Command 9 View Menu 9.1 Operation Panel/Status Bar/Information Panel Commands 9.2 Quick Zoom Command 9.3 Zoom Command 9.4 Option Command 9.5 Smoothing Command 9.6 Audio Command 9.7 Camera Command 10 Help Menu 10.1 Help Command 10.2 Version information Command 11 Image Enlargement 11.1 Enlargement rate 11.2 Specify the range 12 Appendix 12.
1 Overview The DX-PC10E is an application software for playing back media (Compact flash card) recoded on with a Mitsubishi Digital Recorder. This software works with Microsoft R Windows R 98SE, Windows 2000, and Windows Me. 1.1 Product Features - Playing back data in a compact flash card and the same data in other media which was transferred from the compact flash card.
2 Installation 2.1 Installation Method To install DX-PC10E, first start up SETUP.EXE on the provided CD. Follow the series of instructions that appear on-screen, and the software will be installed automatically. The default directory for the installation is C:¥Program Files¥dxpc10e . 2.2 Uninstalling DX-PC10E To uninstall DX-PC10E, open the Install/Remove Applications dialog box in the Operation Panel and select DX-PC10E for removal.
3 Main Window: Display & Operation 3.1 Main Image Field The main image field, in its split-screen display mode, is shown in Figure 3.1-1. Figure 3.1-1 In the split-screen display, the camera number changes from green to yellow to indicate the most recently updated field. By clicking the primary mouse button (“left clicking” in the standard setting) within any of the displayed image fields, the split-screen display can be changed to a single-screen display.
3.2 Operation Panel (Bottom) The bottom portion of the Operation Panel is shown in Figure 3.2. Position slider (*1) Figure 3.2 Operation Panel (bottom portion) Each of the buttons appearing in the bottom portion of the Operation Panel has a different function as described below. Rewind (Jump to Starting Position) Moves to the beginning of a recording segment on the current connected DVR Reverse Search Starts search playback in the reverse direction.
Field Advance Moves to the next field and stops. Playback Begins playback in the normal direction. Also, starts skip playback when Skip Playback has been selected in the Operation menu. This button is also used to activate the PC playback software feature. Forward Search Starts search playback in the normal direction. Search playback speed can be adjusted through repeated clicks of this button.
Bookmark Activates the bookmark function saving the image into the PC’s memory. The image info is lost when PC is turned off. Playback speed adjustment slider By dragging the mouse on the slider underneath the buttons, playback speed can be increased up or decreased down. Using “Fast” (the default setting), images will be renewed at the device’s maximum speed. “Slow”, on the other hand, adds roughly a 3-second wait to each frame shown at maximum speed.
3.3 Information Panel (Right) The left portion of the Information Panel is shown in Figure 3.3. It shows Media Information, Image Information, Zoom Rate and Time Search. Figure 3.3 Information Panel (Right portion) Media Information: Shows the range of recording times of the selected folder. Image information The date and time of image recording, camera number and comment are displayed . During split-screen display mode, information on the most recently updated camera image is displayed.
To activate the zoom function, single screen must be active. Zoom from 25 to 800 % is possible. For details regarding the Zoom Combo box, please refer to Section 11.(Image Enlargement). Time Search Enter the desired date and time for your search in the text boxes, and click the Search button. Images will be displayed for the recordings made closest to the specified time. If no recorded images are available for the date specified, nothing will be displayed.
3.5 Status Bar The Status Bar displays explanations of the selected menu or button, and shows the current playback mode and the current display range. Please refer to Section 3.6 (Hint Display) for further details The Status Bar can be displayed or hidden using the Status Bar command in the View menu. 3.5 Shortcuts Menu By clicking the secondary mouse button (“right clicking” in the standard setting) anywhere within the image, the following Shortcuts menu can be accessed .
4 File Menu Figure 4 File menu 4.1 Folder Command By clicking Folder command in File menu, the following Window appears and the images in a folder can be played back. Note: DX-PC10E can playback only “FSM1” format, which is Mitsubishi Electric DVR copy format.“FSM1” consists of the following files: FMS1 file format ALRM10 (Alarm list file) DEVC10 (Device information file) PIRT10 (Partition information file) SRCH10 (Search information file) TL001 (Folder) D00000.TLX D00001.TLX D00002.
4.2 Save As… Command Clicking the Save As… command in the File menu opens the following dialog box (Figure 4.2), which allows the currently displayed image to be saved as either a Windows bitmap file (.bmp) or an JPEG file (.jpg). Figure 4.2 Save As… dialog box When saving an image, the following information is add to image file: Recording date, camera Number Comment Type of alarm recording 4.3 File Conversion Click “Conversion “ command in file menu, the following window appears.
When JPEG format is selected, a window appears to designate where to save. After designating SAVE AS and clicking SAVE command, the conversion starts and the following window appears. When completed, the message box appears “Data conversion to JPEG is Completed.”. How to be stored in file: A new folder which is named conversion date is automatically generated in the designated folder. Ex. “09042002123456” This file was converted at 12h34m56s on 9th April in 2002.
When AVI format is selected, the following set up window appears: Image size: The size of AVI file can be selected among the following 3 steps: Large: 981 x 720 pixels, Medium: 654 x 480 pixels, Small: 327 x 240 pixels Frame rate: The speed of playing back AVI file can be selected among 5 steps, fast to slow. Click conversion command and SAVE AS window appears. Designate SAVE AS and click SAVE command and the conversion starts and window appears during conversion.
Clicking the Print command in the File menu opens the following window (Figure 4.3). After making desired adjustments to Margin, Printer settings…, and other options, click the Print button to create a printout of the image. Figure 4.3 Print window The Preview column shows what the printout will look like. Desired margin values (in millimeters) can be entered in each of the Margin text boxes.
By adding a check mark to the “Print the displayed area” selection, only the portion of the image visible in the main window will be printed. The quantity of printouts to be made can be specified in the Copies box. This function is not available, however, with printers that do not support printing of multiple copies. Clicking the Printer Settings button opens the standard Windows Printer Settings dialog box, which allows selection of the printer, paper type, page orientation, and other items.
5 Edit Menu Figure 5 Edit menu 5.1 Copy Command The currently displayed image can be copied to the clipboard by using the Copy command in the Edit menu. 6. Search Menu Figure 6. Search menu 6.1 Comment…/Find Next Commands Clicking the Comment... command in the Search menu opens the following window (Figure 6.1). Searches can be made for a frame recorded with the specific comment by entering the text into the box and clicking the Find Next button. The image is then displayed if it is found.
The Previous Alarm command in the Search menu starts a search for Alarm Recordings through earlier recorded times, and displays the field if any are detected. The Next Alarm command performs a similar function through later recording times. 6.3 Alarm List… Command Clicking the Alarm List… command on the Search menu opens the following window (Figure 6.3). Figure 6.
6.5 Block… Command Clicking the Block... command in the Search menu opens the following window (Figure 6.5). Searches can be made by selecting the desired block from the list box and clicking the Search button. Figure 6.5 Block Search The list box contains the block number, its recording start time, its recording end time, the flag, and the camera number. The following table indicates symbols used in the flag field and their meanings.
7 Operation Menu Figure 7 Operation menu 7. 1 Stop Command Clicking the Stop command in the operation menu stops playback or search. 7. 2 Playback / Reverse Playback Command Clicking the Playback command in the operation menu plays back the images in the selected folder. Reverse playback plays back the images to reverse direction. 7.
8 Bookmarks Menu Figure 9 Bookmarks menu 8.1 Marking using bookmark Command Current playback position can be registered on the bookmarks list by using the save with bookmark command in the Bookmarks menu. Up to 30 bookmarks can be registered. When this limit is exceeded, bookmarks will be erased starting with the oldest bookmark. All bookmarks are erased when the DX-PC10E session is ended. This command has the same function as the Bookmark button on the Operation Panel. 8.
9 View Menu Figure 10 View menu 9.1 Operation Panel/Status Bar/Information Panel Commands The Operation Panel can be displayed or hidden using the Operation Panel command in the View menu. In the same manner, the Status Bar and the Information Panel can also be displayed or hidden using their respective commands in the View menu. These settings will be saved in the registry. 9.2 Quick Zoom Command The Quick Zoom window can be displayed or hidden using the Quick Zoom command in the View menu.
9.4 Options… Command The following dialog box (Figure 9.4) can be accessed through the Options… command in the View menu. Figure 9.4 Option dialog box Number of Fields to skip Specify number of field to skip for use of Search / Reverse Search command. Selections from 2 to 32767 fields. Audio Play: Sets the audio play. Selection include Short, Middle, Long. OK button: Click to save settings in the registry. 9.
9.6 Audio Command Adding a check mark to the Audio command in the View menu outputs the audio when plying back the audio-recorded medium. Stopping the image playback starts the audio for several seconds before and after the stopped frame. 3 levels of audio settings (short/middle/long) are available. Note: The audio playback period will vary depending on the recording settings (recording interval/recording image quality) etc. of the medium. 9.7 Camera Command Figure 9.
Figure 11 Help menu 10.1 Help Command Help can be displayed by selecting the Help command in the Help menu. 10.2 About… Command Information on the version of DX-PC10E being used can be accessed through the About… command in the Help menu. 11 Zoom function 11.1 Specifying Zoom rate Enlargement can be specified with any of the listed procedures below. ・ Specify zoom rate 100%, 200%, 400%, 800% or Fit in window using zoom command in view menu.
・ Rotate the wheel of Microsoft IntelliMouse (vertical direction only). 12 Appendices 12.1 Restrictions - The playback speed of DX-PC10E is determined by the host computer’s processing speed and the type of playback devices used. For these reasons, there will be cases where the software’s playback speed does not match the recording intervals of the digital recorder. - There are cases, with media which sequence recording times, that Time Search cannot be correctly executed.
