4XEM IPNV16 User Manual
16-CH Smart VS-IP Recorder
User’s Manual
Contents
Chapter 1 Installation.................................................................................................1-5
1.1 System Hardware Requirements...............................................................1-5
1.1.1 Recommended minimum system hardware requirements ...............1-5
1.2 Software Installation .................................................................................1-6
1.3 First Start up............................................................................................1-11
Chapter 2 Launcher .................................................................................................2-12
2.1 Security for Launcher .............................................................................2-12
2.2 User Interface..........................................................................................2-13
Chapter 3 Monitor ...................................................................................................3-15
3.1 Features of Monitor Tool ........................................................................3-15
3.1.1 Traditional Surveillance Features ..................................................3-15
3.1.2 Special Features .............................................................................3-15
3.2 Application Layout and Functionalities.............................................3-16
3.3 Logging In...............................................................................................3-18
3.3.1 The Root Privilege .........................................................................3-18
3.3.2 The General User Privilege............................................................3-18
3.4 Camera Configurations ...........................................................................3-19
3.4.1 The Layout of the Configuration ...................................................3-19
3.4.2 Local Settings.................................................................................3-20
3.4.3 Alert Settings and Recording Settings ...........................................3-22
3.4.4 Changing the Camera Order in the List .........................................3-24
3.4.5 Saving the Changes........................................................................3-24
3.5 Global Settings........................................................................................3-25
3.6 Using Monitor Tool.................................................................................3-31
3.6.1 Connection of the Video Server / Network Camera Series............3-31
3.6.2 The Layout .....................................................................................3-36
3.6.3 Input/Output Control Tools............................................................3-40
3.6.4 Backup ...........................................................................................3-43
3.6.5 About..............................................................................................3-44
3.6.6 Miscellaneous Functions................................................................3-44
3.6.7 Common Control Functions...........................................................3-46
3.6.8 Multiple Focus ...............................................................................3-47
3.6.9 Status Bar .......................................................................................3-48
Chapter 4 Scheduling...............................................................................................4-49
4.1 Invoke Scheduling Tool ..........................................................................4-50
4.1.1 Starting the Scheduling tool...........................................................4-50
4.2 The Layout and Functionalities ..............................................................4-51
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4.2.1 Introduction....................................................................................4-51
4.2.2 The Functionalities of Configuration Components........................4-52
4.2.3 The Schedule Scheme operations ..................................................4-53
4.3 Primary Schedule....................................................................................4-54
4.3.1 Schedule with Time Lines..............................................................4-54
4.3.2 Schedule with Time Picker ............................................................4-55
4.3.3 Schedule in event mode .................................................................4-56
4.3.4 Schedule in Continuous mode .......................................................4-57
4.4 Secondary Schedule................................................................................4-57
4.4.1 Schedule modes .............................................................................4-57
Chapter 5 Playback..................................................................................................5-58
5.1 Features of Playback...............................................................................5-58
5.2 Logging In...............................................................................................5-59
5.3 Layout .....................................................................................................5-60
5.3.1 Main Areas.....................................................................................5-60
5.3.2 Indicators........................................................................................5-63
5.3.3 Pull Bar ..........................................................................................5-64
5.4 Settings....................................................................................................5-64
5.5 Normal (Single Frame) Mode.................................................................5-66
5.5.1 Histogram Area ..............................................................................5-67
5.6 Preview (Multiple Frame) Mode ............................................................5-68
5.6.1 Histogram Area ..............................................................................5-69
5.6.2 Histogram Legend..........................................................................5-70
5.7 Using Tools .............................................................................................5-71
5.7.1 Selector Tools.................................................................................5-71
5.7.2 Play Control ...................................................................................5-73
5.7.3 Display Adjustment Toolbox .........................................................5-74
5.7.4 Searching Range Adjustment Toolbox...........................................5-75
5.7.5 Toolbox ..........................................................................................5-76
5.7.6 System Control Toolbox ................................................................5-78
Chapter 1 Installation
1.1 System Hardware Requirements
Before installing the application software, make sure your system has the following
recommended minimum hardware requirements.
1.1.1 Recommended minimum system hardware
requirements
The system requirement recommended for this application is as follows.
OS: MS Windows 2000/XP/98SE/Me
CPU: Intel 2.0 GHz Pentium IV or above and AMD Athlon or above
SDRAM: 256 MB SDRAM
Hard disk: 40 GB
Display Chip: nVidia, GeForce series with 32 MB Display memory
ATI Radeon series with 32 MB Display memory
Table 1-1 Recommended System Hardware Requirements
The following notes should help you with the proper installation of the software on to the
recommended hardware system.
This application software only supports Intel Pentium IV series or above and AMD Athlon or
above CPUs.
It is also recommended to run this application software on Win2000 OS to avoid any functional
limitation.
Make sure all Power Management and Screen Saver functions are turned off to avoid system
hang-ups.
Chapter 1 Installation
1.2 Software Installation
The following are steps for the software installation.
STEP 1: Put the Installation disk into the CD-ROM drive, and installation should start
automatically. If installation does not start, click on “Start” on the lower left corner of your
screen and open “My Computer” and double click on the CD-ROM icon. The IP surveillance
Recorder Installation Window will appear as Figure 1-1 in below.
Figure 1-1 Smart VS-IP Recorder Installation Window
STEP 2: There are links on this page, including Quick Guide, User’s Manual, Release Note, and
Install Software DVR. Click on “Install Software DVR” to launch the intallation shield. The
InstallShield Wizard will come on and Figure 1-2 will appear.
Figure 1-2 Welcome page for the Smart VS-IP Recorder
STEP 3: If you click on “Next” and Figure 1-3 appears, it means you have installed a previous
version of the recording software (the previous version is the video-only version, which means it
would not get the audio stream from servers). If you want to keep the previous version, choose
the second option. If you are new to the Smart VS-IP recorder software, this window will not
appear; skip on over to Step 4.
Figure 1-3 Video only version detected
Chapter 1 Installation
STEP 4: Click on “Next”and the “User information” window will appear as in Figure 1-4. This
window prompts you to enter a username, company name. Click on “Next” to continue.
Figure 1-4 User information for Smart VS-IP Recorder
STEP 5: Set up the administrator’s password by entering a password and confirm the password
as shown in Figure 1-5. Click on “Next” to continue.
Figure 1-5 Confirm Password
STEP 6: Select the installation directory for this application software and click on “Next”, as
shown in Figure 1-6. You can also change the installation directory from the Default directory by
clicking on “Browse…”
Figure 1-6 Destination Location for Installation
STEP 7: Select a program folder to install the application software into and then click on “Next”,
as shown in Figure 1-7.
Figure 1-7 Select Program Folder
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STEP 8: After checking all the set up information shown in Figure 1-8, click on “Next” to start
file movement and registries update.
Figure 1-8 Check Setup Information
STEP 9: Click on “Finish”, as shown in Figure 1-9, to finish installation. This completes the
program installation.
Figure 1-9 Finish the Installation
1.3 First Start up
After installation, one of the IE settings needs to be changed before you can start running the
Monitor program. Enable the mechanism for submitting non-encrypted data in the path
“Start->Settings->control Panel->Internet Options->Security->Custom Level…\Setting:”. You
can also find the path from the IE browser, as it is depicted in the following. You can follow the
instructions to complete this setting, as shown in Figure 1-10.
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3
5
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Figure 1-10 Enable Submitting Non-encrypted Form Data
Upon completion of the settings, you can start to invoke the Monitor program.
Chapter 2 Monitor
Chapter 2 Launcher
Launcher is a controller program that allows the user to invoke Monitor or Playback
quickly. It also allows starting the recording before the user logs in.
2.1 Security for Launcher
Starting Launcher does not require passing the username/password check. Once
invoked, Launcher can run automatically. However, if the user clicks on the
Launcher icon in the system tray, the program will pop up a username/password
dialog. This happens if this is a first time menu pop up, or when Launcher was
locked. If the user fails to pass the authentication check, no menu will appear.
After passing identification and authentication, the user is free to use all functions.
The user can lock the Launcher as a security measure. When the Launcher is locked,
it reverts back to the Start-up state. The user needs to pass identification and
authentication again to get to the popup menu.
Below is the login window:
Figure 2-1 Login Dialog
When the Launcher is locked, the unlock window is as follows:
Figure 2-2 Unlock Dialog
The input area of the dialog will be grayed (disabled) for 60 seconds after three
failure attempts.
2.2 User Interface
This is the user interface for Launcher:
Figure 2-3 Popup Menu
The main user interface for Launcher is an icon on the system tray. The popup menu
is displayed by clicking on the right or left buttons on the mouse. The menu items
are listed below:
1. Lock Launcher – When this item is selected, Launcher will enter Lock mode. In
Lock mode, whenever the user wants to invoke the menu, a dialog asking for
username and password appears. The interface for this dialog is covered in the
previous section.
Chapter 2 Monitor
2. Tools – This contains many utilities; currently only change password is
implemented. Below is the change password screen:
Figure 2-4 Change Password Dialog
3. Autorun at Startup – This turns on or turns off Launcher’s auto start up state.
Auto start up is to run Launcher right after Windows boot up. The state could
be either on or off.
4. Monitor – This starts up the Monitor. If the Monitor is already running, move
the focus to it.
5. Playback – This starts up Playback. If Playback is already running, move the
focus to it.
6. Exit – This ends Launcher. If the user chooses this option, a message box will
pop up to confirm whether the user really wants to exit. It warns the user that
exiting Launcher will also close Monitor and Playback.
Chapter 3 Monitor
3.1 Features of Monitor Tool
In this section, we will depict all features of the Monitor tool in this software.
3.1.1 Traditional Surveillance Features
The traditional surveillance features include the following
9 Real-time monitor
9 PTZ control
9 Recording
3.1.2 Special Features
In our digital surveillance system, we support not only the features listed above but
also the following features, making the system more powerful and convenient to use.
9 Simultaneous real-time monitoring and audio and video recording
9 High quality video, up to full-screen display
9 High compression ratio
9 Maximum support of 16 cameras with different monitor layouts
9 Smart playback
9 Triggered event browsing with 9 preview video windows
9 Fast database searching
9 Auto alarm in different ways
9 Account-password protection
9 Different recording modes: Event-driven, Scheduled and Manual recording for
each camera
9 Intelligent database index modes: indexing by sharp time tag, time interval,
motion-detected events and digital-input events.
9 Just-in-time snapshot
9 AVI export
9 Motion detection with 3 alert windows for each camera
Chapter 2 Monitor
3.2 Application Layout and
Functionalities
This section demonstrates a global view of the Monitor tool, as shown in Figure 3-1 .
Components of the Monitor tool in details are shown in the following sections.
Misc. functions
Channel area
Layout area
Hard disk status
Common controls
PTZ, DI/DO and Alert message
Video area
Display frame
Figure 3-1 Overview of the Monitor Tool
There are several parts in the monitor tool:
9 Miscellaneous functions:
These include application exit, minimization, full-screen display, lock, stop alert,
and configuration menu for camera configurations, global settings, scheduler
settings, video/audio database backup, and the user information of this
application software. The operation tips are provided on-line when you move the
mouse cursor over each item.
9 Channel area
This area displays the status of each channel. The information indicates the status
of connection, recording, selection, and alert-event triggered.
9 Video area
In this area, you can see the video of the selected channel in the display frame.
The number of display frames in the video area depends on the layout chosen by
the user. You can also do some convenient controls for the video display in it.
9 Layout area
You can change different monitoring layouts in this area. There are six kinds of
layouts the user can choose from: 1, 4, 6, 9, 13, or 16 video display frames in the
video area.
9 Hard disk status
In this area, you can get the status of the hard disk that the video database resides
in. This reminds you to arrange for available storage size of the recorded video
database.
9 Common control area
This area includes volume controller, manual recording, video printing, and
snapshot, as well as a trash can to remove any video from display frames.
9 PTZ control
In this area you can do PTZ control, auto pan, auto patrol, and preset location
control of the selected channel. The camera must be a remote Visual Server /
Network Camera series product that supports PTZ functions.
9 DI/DO control
This tool receives digital input signal and sends digital output signal to the
remote Video Server/ Network Camera series product associated with the
dedicated channel.
9 Alert Message
This tool allows the display of the latest alert messages received from the remote
Video Server / Network Camera series product associated with the selected
channel.
Chapter 2 Monitor
3.3 Logging In
The authentication mechanism is implemented in Launcher. If user has already
passed the authentication in Launcher, Monitor can be invoked without further
authentication. If not, the Authentication of Launcher will be popped up and user
must pass it to get Monitor shows up. There are two privileges in the user-protection
system: the root (administrator) and the general user.
3.3.1 The Root Privilege
In the Monitor tool system, root privilege includes the right to access Video Server /
Network Camera series products as well as changing local settings. However, this
root privilege is not the same as that of the root privilege of the Video Server /
Network Camera series product. You can change the settings of each selected Video
Server / Network Camera in the remote site only if you have the root privilege of the
remote Video Server / Network Camera series product.
If you have the root privilege, you can do the following:
9 Running the configuration tool
9 Changing the recording schedule
9 Change the local settings
Again, if you need to change the settings of remote Video Server / Network Camera
series products, you must have the root user password for each of the products.
3.3.2 The General User Privilege
This is not implemented in the current version. Only the root user can log in to this
application software.
3.4 Camera Configurations
When you log in for the first time, you need to configure this application software to
connect to the remote Video Server / Network Camera series products in
“Configuration Menu \ Camera Configuration”, as shown in Figure 3-2. You must
have the root (administrator) privilege in order to run the configuration.
Figure 3-2 Camera Configuration
ATTENTION: Once you click on “Configuration Menu\Camera Configuration” for
setting each camera, a warning window will pop up to warn you that all recording
processes will be stopped.
3.4.1 The Layout of the Configuration
In this section, we discuss the local settings of the connection and the functional
configurations of each camera. If you are interested in the remote settings for each
camera, you can refer to each Video Server / Network Camera series product’s user’s
manual that was shipped with the hardware.
NOTE: As for the location of the selected camera, you need to make sure the location
string does not include prohibited characters such as “"\ / : * ? " < > |”. Otherwise, the
“wrong” location string will cause the application program to malfunction. You can
change the location string in “Video->Text on Video” of the remote setting webpage.
Chapter 2 Monitor
Local settings
Setup page
Camera selections
Remote setting webpage
Figure 3-3 Layouts of Camera Configurations
3.4.2 Local Settings
In the local settings, as shown in Figure 3-4, there are three main functionalities:
Insert camera
Delete camera
Figure 3-4 Local Settings
Insert – This allows the user to insert a remote Video Server / Network Camera
History
series product to the camera list. Click on the “Insert” button, an “Insert New
Channel” dialog will pop up, as shown in Figure 3-5. Specify the IP address, port
and root password of the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product, and
click on the “Ok” button to close the dialog. The system will try to connect to the
selected camera. If the connection is successful, the camera will be inserted to the
list.
IP address and port
Figure 3-5 Insert New Channel Dialog
Delete – This removes the selected Video Server / Network Camera series product
from the camera list.
Figure 3-6 Adding a camera to the list
The selected camera will be deleted.
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History – Clicking on the “History” button pops up a camera history list that shows
the latest cameras that has been inserted into the camera list. The list could contain
up to 16 entries. When you click on one of the cameras in the history list, the camera
will be inserted into the camera list. The history list is shown in Figure 3-7.
Historical camera list
Figure 3-7 Popup historical camera list
.
3.4.3 Alert Settings and Recording Settings
Figure 3-8 Alert Settings and Recording Settings
Alert Settings:
These settings guide this program how to handle motion detection and digital input
alerts.
9 Enable motion detect －
With this checkbox checked, the program will trigger the alert sound (specified
in “3.5 Global Settings \ Alert Sound”) if motion is detected for the specified
channel.
9 Enable digital input －
This function is similar with that of “Enable Motion Detect”. Selecting this
option will activate the alert sound when the digital input of the remote Video
Server / Network Camera series product is triggered.
9 Digital input alert －
This option allows for defining the triggering criterion of the digital input of the
remote Video Server / Network Camera series product. It can either be high-level
triggered or low-level triggered.
Recording Settings:
9 Name －
If you want to specify your own location name, specify it in this field.
Otherwise, leave this field with the default value “<Default>”. You will get a
default location name which concatenates the string in the server’s “Text on
video” field, an underline and the channel index.
9 Record # secs. before event －
Once the event recording is activated (using Scheduling) for channels, you can
use this setting to regulate the time for the recording of the triggered event. The
recording will start at the set time before the alert event starts.
9 Record # secs. after event －
This set how long the recording will last after the alert event has started.
9 Media Type －
You can use this to specify which media type you want to record, Video, Audio,
or both.
Chapter 2 Monitor
3.4.4 Changing the Camera Order in the List
You can use “drag and drop” in the grid area of the camera list to change the
sequence of the connected Video Server / Network Camera series products, as
shown in Figure 3-9. This is helpful when you want to rearrange the cameras’
order.
Step 1: Step 2:
Press left mouse button at the gray
index field.
Move mouse to where you want to move and then release the
mouse button. Then Video 1 will be moved to the 10th row.
Figure 3-9 Change the Sequence of the Connected Camera
3.4.5 Saving the Changes
Once you have clicked on the “Save” button in the bottom left corner of this window,
the changes for all camera configurations will be saved and validated immediately in
this IP surveillance system.
NOTE: If you try to change the remote settings of any Video Server / Network
Camera series product in the right web page of this window, you will need to apply the
“SAVE” button in each corresponding page in order to save the settings to the remote
servers. There are different “SAVE” buttons for changing the settings of the local IP
surveillance system and that of the remote Video Server / Network Camera series
product.
3.5 Global Settings
After completing the connection for each remote Video Server / Network Camera
series product, you will need to configure the global settings for all the connected
servers. These include the video database directory, the usage of the hard disk, and
options for video display.
Figure 3-10 Global Settings
You can activate the global setting window from “Configuration Menu \ Global
Settings...” as shown in Figure 3-10.
ATTENTION: A warning window will pop up to alert you that all recording processes
will be stopped when activating the global setting window.
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