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Appendix 6: Guide to the DVMD
interface
Installation
• It is recommended that the DVMD and DVMD interface are installed on a PC
deployed on site and the data files are bought back to the office for review. It is
therefore necessary to install the interface on an additional PC so that the user is
able to review the collected files. A framegrabber card is not required to review
the files.
• To install the interface with a Falcon framegrabber card, install the card before
installing the DVMD interface. Create a new folder called DVMDInterface on your
C-drive and copy the executable program from the CD to this folder. Double
click to open. There is no installation process as such and the program should
run first time.
• To install the interface without a framegrabber card, certain files need to be
copied to specific places on the PC (for details of how to obtain these files,
contact Emma Washburn or Jim Gregory):
1. Falcon (system file) needs to go in C/Windows/System32/Drivers
2. The other four (falcavi.dll, falcon.dll, idshok.dll, ijl15.dll) in
C/Windows/System32
Create a file called DVMDInterface and copy the interface program into it. You
can then open the DVMD interface. You’ll get an error message saying something
about hardware not installed. Just OK this. The user will only be able to review
previously collected .csv files.
Menu options
• The Settings tab (under View) has a link to ManagerNET, the program used to
communicate with the DVMD and set the tracking parameters. The user can also
set the folder in which they wish the results to be stored. There is an option to set
the avi codec (MPEG4 Codec V2 is recommended) and the playback speed for
review. New species can be added to the list, which is available to the user when
reviewing files.