Deltaco DVR User Manual

Digital Video Recorder

4CH DVR

Index

Introduction to Digital Video Recorder------------------2
Front panel buttons-----

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Rear panel buttons ------------------------------------------4
DVR installation:video output connection--------------5
DVR installation:video input connection----------------5
DVR installation:sensor installation----------------------6
DVR installation:alarm installation---

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Power up the unit --------------------------------------------8
On-screen display--------------------------------------------9
Operation guide:Main menu-------------------------------10
Operation guide:Camera select------------
Operation guide:Record select------------

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Operation guide:Record mode----------------------------11
Operation guide:Record frame-rate-----------

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Operation guide:Video quality-----------------------------13
Operation guide:Record schedule---------------

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Operation guide:Sub menu-password change--------15
Operation guide:Sub menu-time set---------------------16
Operation guide:Sub menu-display format-------------16
Operation guide:Sequential time--------------------------17
Operation guide:HDD setup -------------------------------17
Operation guide:Sensor setup ----------------------------18
Operation guide: How to start Motion detection

recording------------------------------------------------------19

Operation guide:Playback -------

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Optional functions:Backup via USB port-----------21
Optional functions:Networking setup--------------------22
Optional functions:Audio recording setup--------------23
Appendix I Regulatory --------------------------------------24
Appendix II PC viewer application-----------------------25
Appendix III PC client application------------------------27

Introduction

Introduction to Digital Video Recorder (DVR)

The digital video recorder (DVR) is for recording/retrieving video streams
from up to 4 channels at the same time. It adopts a digital image
compression technology to compress the input channel video streams,
and uses HDD to record the compressed video stream.

The following operation guide explains how to operate/manage the DVR,
and the following installation guide explains how to install DVR at your
home or HDD into the DVR.

Hope you enjoy it, use it to protect your home, and eventually make your
home as SAFE HOME.

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Front Panel

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1. (Menu) button: press to display Operation menu option

2. z(Recording button): press to start recording.

3.  (Stop recording/playback button):press stop recording/playback

(the authorized password is requested upon stopping record;

the default password is 111111)

4. (Fast forward button): press to play the recorded stream faster.

5. f (Playback button): press to start playback

6. (Pause button): press to pause the video playback

7. Reverse:press to playback backward

8. Channel 1 button: press to select channel 1

9. Channel 2 button: press to select channel 2

10. Channel 3 button: press to select channel 3

11. Channel 4 button: press to select channel 4

12. 田 All channels button: press to select all channels display
13,14.  up down buttons: press to change menu field

15.  (Select) button: press to change the setting value or enter into a
sub menu

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Rear Panel

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1. S Video

2. Video output

3. Monitor : Second Video output

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911

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4. Video input

5. Video loop-through

6. Sensor input/alarm output: 4 sensor inputs and one alarm output

7. NTSC/PAL switch

8. DC-in (12Voltage)

9. Audio-in/out

10. LAN(RJ45) (optional function)

11. Power switch

12. PC Link : USB device interface (2.0)

13. VGA output (optional function)

(optional function)

(optional function)

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DVR Installation

BNC connection

Or through

S-Video connection

(Optional)

1.Video output connection ( TV or monitor, LCD monitor)

Please connect TV(monitor) or LCD monitor (optional) to the unit over the Video output

connector.
The unit provides 1 x S-Video input, 2 x BNC connector and 1 x VGA output.
The above Figure shows the video signal line c onne ction.

(optional)

Signal Line

BNC connection

Camera

Or through

Power line

S-Video connection

AC/DC adaptor

power outlet

2. Video input connection ( Camera)

Please connect Camera to the unit over the Video input connector.
The unit provides 4 x BNC connectors.The camer a install ation
Procedures are as following:
i. Connect the video signal line: connect the video signal line to the unit
ii.Connect camera power line: Connect camera’s adaptor to camera, and

plug in the adaptor. The complete connection with a camera will be shown

as figure above:

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DVR Installation

Signal Line

Power line

AC/DC adaptor

Sensor

power outlet

3.Sensor Installation

The unit provides 4 sensor input for 4 channels. The s e nso r
Installation procedures are as follows. There are two simple steps
For the installation of the sensors.
i. Connect the sensor signal line: Connect the vi deo signal line to the unit. The
Sensor signal terminal is at the unit’s back panel
ii.Connect the sensor adaptor jack into the sensor, and plug in the adaptor.

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CH1 CH2 CH3 CH4

Alarm out

DVR Installation

Signal Line

power outlet

AlarmAC/DC adaptor

4. Alarm installation

The unit provides 1 internal switch for sounding alarm when the s ensor is
Activated due to the unwanted entrance of anonymous visitor. The switch
Is open at normal state, but, when the alarm is activ ated, the switch i s clo s ed
So that the alarm gets the power. The circuitry is shown as above figure.
There are two simpl e steps for the installation of the alarm
i. Prepare the po wer supply:the alar m needs a power supply, the power supply

comes with the alarm

ii.Connect the alarm power line:the alarm power line is connected to the alarm

switch terminal.

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Power up the unit

After the unit is properly installed, the unit is ready to record and play. Then

apply power and switch on.

After the unit is powered on, the
unit is checking HDD for several
seconds, the information will be
displayed on the screen as right:

The unit will enter into real-time
display mode shown as the right
figure:

NOTICE

HDD CHECKING

OK

CH1 CH3
CH3 CH4

1.

Make sure the HDD is off

1.

Make sure the HDD is off

before removing the drive

before removing the drive

2.Once you resume the initial

2.Once you resume the initial

setting, the right information

setting, the right information

will be displayed on th e screen.

will be displayed on th e screen.

Then turn off the unit and re--

Then turn off the unit and re

power on it.

power on it.

Turn off and on the DVR!

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On-Screen Display

1. Power on the system

CH1 CH3
CH3 CH4

Press button to open OSD
menu as right

Press button to exit OSD
menu to real-time display

Pressz button to start
recording

Press button to stop
recording( password is
requested!)

MAIN MENU
CAMERA SELECT 1234
RECORD SELECT 1234
RECORD MODE 田
RECORD FRAMERATE 30
VIDEO QUALITY HI
RECORD SCHEDULE
SUB MENU
HARD DRIVE SETUP

OSD Mode Display

● CH1 ● CH3

● CH3 ● CH4

Pressf button to search
time or event to playback

Press  button to exit the menu

Press  button to stop playback

Recording Mode Display

SEARCH TIME

HDD: MASTER
04/03/24 13:24:21-04/03/24 13:44:54
>01 TIME 04/03/24 13:24:21
>02 TIME 04/03/24 13:30:55
>03 TIME 04/03/24 13:40:54
(¿À) MOVE,() CHANGE,(f)PLAY

SEARCH MODE

Press f button
to start playing

CH1 CH3
CH3 CH4

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PLAYBACKMODE

Operation guide

MAIN MENU

Press to display
menu option shown
as right figure.

¾Please stop recording or playback before you enter into OSD menu.
¾You will be requested to enter password, while stopping recording.

”NETWORK SETUP” is optional function which is only provided with LAN model.

¾

CAMERA SELECT

MAIN MENU

¾ CAMERA SELECT 1234

RECORD SELECT 1234
RECORD MODE 田
RECORD FRAMERATE 30
VIDEO QUALITY HI
RECORD SCHEDULE
SUB MENU
HARD DRIVE SETUP
SENSOR SETUP

MAIN MENU

¾ CAMERA SELECT 1234

RECORD SELECT 1234
RECORD MODE 田
RECORD FRAMERATE 30
VIDEO QUALITY HI
RECORD SCHEDULE
SUB MENU
HARD DRIVE SETUP
SENSOR SETUP
NETWORK SETUP

The unit provides 4 camera inputs.
You can use channel buttons on
the front panel to select specified
channel for real-time display.

Operation Buttons
 ---

ST--- press to change menu field or
change the unit’s configuration values.
 --- press to select menu item or
confirm the selection.

press to display menu option.

You can use “” button or channel buttons for different combinations for
channel display.

Example:

1. When you choose (----), all cameras are off

2. When you choose (1234), all cameras are displayed.

3. When you choose (---4), only the fourth channel is displayed.

NOTICE

“VIDEO LOSS” signal will be displayed, and the
built-in alarm buzzer will be trigge red to sound,
while no video connection or connection failure.

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VIDEO LOSS !

Operation guide

NOTICE

Channel Display Control

In each mode(回) mode, you can use the
following buttons to display Full-scr een format
of each channel.

Channel 1 button: Full screen
display of channel 1
Channel2 button: Full screen
display of channel 2
Channel 3 button: Full screen
display of channel 3

Channel 4 button: Full screen
display of channel 4

RECORD SELECT

MAIN MENU

CAMERA SELECT 1234

¾RECORD SELECT 1234

RECORD MODE 田
RECORD FRAMERATE 30
VIDEO QUALITY HI
RECORD SCHEDULE
SUB MENU
HARD DRIVE SETUP

RECORD MODE

MAIN MENU
CAMERA SELECT 1234
RECORD SELECT 1234

¾ RECORD MODE 田

RECORD FRAMERATE 30
VIDEO QUALITY HI
RECORD SCHEDULE
SUB MENU
HARD DRIVE SETUP

Selecting channel on this menu
option is same as “CAMERA
SELECT” options.
Only selected camera will record
real-time events dur ing recording
period

The unit provides 4 camera inputs.
You can use channel buttons on
the front panel to select specified
channel for real-time display.

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Operation guide

MAIN MENU
CAMERA SELECT 1234
RECORD SELECT 1234
RECORD MODE 田
RECORD FRAMERATE 30
VIDEO QUALITY HI
RECORD SCHEDULE
SUB MENU
HARD DRIVE SETUP
SENSOR SETUP

RECORD FRAMRATE

There are two kinds of recording
mode : 回(each mode; full screen
mode)&田 (quad screen mode).
when you set to 回mode, you can
view the full-screen display of one
specified channel.
When you set to 田 mode, quad­screen will be displayed.
Please use ¿À buttons of front
panel to select mode and then
enter  to confirm the selection

MAIN MENU
CAMERA SELECT 1234
RECORD SELECT 1234
RECORD MODE 田

¾ RECORD FRAMERATE 30

VIDEO QUALITY HI
RECORD SCHEDULE
SUB MENU
HARD DRIVE SETUP
SENSOR SETUP

NOTICE

There are 9 different frame rate
settings for operation:
(30fps,15fps,10fps,7fps,5fps,4fps,3
fps,2fps,1fps; But the unit is set
to 30fps in the factory )

Please use ¿À buttons of front
panel to select mode and then
enter  to confirm the selection

RECORDING FRAME RATE

The higher the record frame rate is, the more natural look
will be displayed on the screen on playback mode.
But the lower the record frame rate is, the more you can
save the space on HDD.

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Operation guide

VIDEO QUALITY

MAIN MENU
CAMERA SELECT 1234
RECORD SELECT 1234
RECORD MODE 田
RECORD FRAMERATE 30

¾ VIDEO QUALITY HI

RECORD SCHEDULE
SUB MENU
HARD DRIVE SETUP
SENSOR SETUP

NOTICE

There are 3 different video quality
settings for operation: Normal,
Low, High

Please use ¿À buttons of front
panel to select mode and then
enter  to confirm the selection

DIFFERENT VIDEO QUALITY SETTINGS ON
HDD CAPACITY

The higher the video quality is, the clearer images the unit
plays.
But the lower the video quality is, the more you can save the
space on HDD.

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Operation guide

RECORD SCHEDULE

MAIN MENU
CAMERA SELECT 1234
RECORD SELECT 1234
RECORD MODE 田
RECORD FRAMERATE 30
VIDEO QUALITY HI

¾RECORD SCHEDULE

SUB MENU
HARD DRIVE SETUP
SENSOR SETUP

PROGRAMMED RECORD

+ T T T S S T T T T T T T T T +

0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24

PRESS (

¿À), THEN ( )

PRESS() TO EXIT

Enter into this option to change a
recording schedule during a day
(24-hour period) .

Numbers above indicate the time duration
of 24 hours.
(T) Letter indicates recording.
(S) Letter indicates sensor recording. It
means the unit starts rec ording as the
attached sensors be ing triggered during this
period.
(--) Recording is off during this duration.

SETTING EXAMPLE:

0:00 ~ 7:00 SENSOR RECORDING

7:00 ~11:00 RECORDING DISABLED
11:00 ~18:00 RECORDING
18:00 ~24:00 SENSOR RECORDING

+ S S S S S S ----T T T T T T T S S S S S S +

: : : : :
0 6 11 18 24

NOTICE

SENSOR RECORDING INSTALLATION

The unit provides 4 alarm inputs which can be
configured as normal close, normal open, motion
detection +NC and motion detection+NO over
“SENSOR SETUP” menu option. (Please refer to P. 18
for the sensor setup). After the sensor configura tion,
please go back to “ RECORD SCHEDULE” menu to
enable sensor reco rding .

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Operation guide

SUB MENU

SUB MENU

¾PASSWORD CHANGE

TIME SET
DATE DISPLAY FORMAT
SEQUENTIAL TIME

PRESS (¿À), THEN ( )

PRESS() TO EXIT

PASSWORD CHANGE

CURRENT PASSWORD: -------

NEW PASSWORD:------­PASSWORD CONFIRM:--------

PRESS (

PRESS() TO EXIT

¿À), THEN ( )

Enter into this option to change
password, time /date setting, date
format and enable the connection
between the unit and PC over
USB interface.

PASSWORD CHANGE .

You enter into “PASSWORD CHANGE”, a
password change input menu replaces the
“SUB MENU” (The default password is

111111)
When the new password is accepted, the
board will flash the following screen
message:
PASSWORD changed!!!
The message will blink 5 times. Then the
display goes back to SUB MENU.
If the password was not accepted, the unit
will automatically return to SUB MENU.

NOTICE

FRONT PANEL BUTTONS DEFINITION

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means “1” 田 means “5” fmeans“b”
means “2” z means “6” means “C”
means “3”  means “7” means “D”

 means “8” means “E”

means “4”  means “9” means “F”

 means “0”

Operation guide

TIME SET

TIME

2004/03/21 03:23:21

PRESS (¿À), THEN ( )

PRESS() TO EXIT

DATE DISPLAY FORMAT

DATE DISPLAY FORMAT

PRESS (¿À), THEN ( )

PRESS() TO EXIT

Enter into this option to change
date and hour.

The unit provides yyyy/mm/dd or
dd/mm/yyyy variant which depends on
the regional preference.

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Operation guide

SEQUENTIAL TIME

SEQUENTIAL TIME

PRESS (¿À), THEN ( )

PRESS() TO EXIT

HDD SETUP

HARD DRIVE SETUP
OVERWRITE ENABLED YES
MASTER HDD SIZE 40000MB
MASTER HDD USED 0MB 0%
MASTER HDD FORMAT
SLAVE HDD SIZE

PRESS (¿À), THEN ( )

PRESS() TO EXIT

Use this menu to specify each
channel display dwell time.
Dwell time settings determine
from 1 sec to 9 sec between
displays for 4 channels .

Note: Please press “” to confirm
the setting. Or press”田“button to
disable the setting.

OVERWRITE ENABLED:
If you choose “YES”, the unit will

continue recording and
overwrite the recorded data
when HDD’s space is full

If you choose “NO”, the unit will stop

recording while HDD’s space is

full
MASTER HDD SIZE:
It indicates the capacity of the primary

HDD installed in the unit
MASTER HDD USED:
It indicates how percentage of HDD’s

capacity has been occupied.

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MASTER HDD FORMAT:
It erases all of the recorded data in

Master HDD
The authorized password is r equested

before formatting, after the unit

formatted, the following

information will appear on the

screen “HARD DISK

FORMATTED” .

Operation guide

SENSOR SETUP

SENSOR SETUP
SENSOR RECORD TIME 15
ALARM OUT TIME 20
MOTION SENSITIVE SETUP
CHANNEL-1 TYPE:MOTION + N-C
CHANNEL-2 TYPE:MOTION + N-O
CHANNEL-3 TYPE:NORMAL
CLOSE
CHANNEL-4 TYPE:NOT
INSTALLED

PRESS (¿À), THEN ( )

PRESS() TO EXIT

MOTION SENSITIVE SETUP

2 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
1 4 7 10 13 16

O:MORE 9:LESS(SENSITIVE)

SENSOR RECORD TIME:

Recording duration once sensor
Being triggered.

ALARM OUT TIME:

It controls how long ( in second)

the alarm sounds after being triggered.

MOTION SENSITIVE SETUP

Use this menu to adjust the sensitivity of
each channel.
The first bar shows the current
sensitivity of each channel, then use the

“” to set higher sensitivity or lower
Sensitivity. ( 0 stands for highest
Sensitivity, but 9 is for lowest

sensitivity.) .

PRESS (¿À), THEN ( )
PRESS() TO EXIT

SENSOR TRIGGER MODES:

The unit provides 5 different modes for
variant uses:

1.Not installed. 2. Normal open.

3. Normal close . 4. Motion +N-C

5. Motion + N-O

In normal open mode, the cable line
Connected between the s ensor and

the unit is cut off by an intruder, the unit

starts recording.

In normal close mode, the cable line
connected between the sensor and the
Unit is cut off by an intruder , the unit
stops recording

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Operation guide

How to operate Motion detection recording

SENSOR SETUP
SENSOR RECORD TIME 15
ALARM OUT TIME 20
MOTION SENSITIVE SETUP
CHANNEL-1 TYPE:MOTION + N-C
CHANNEL-2 TYPE:MOTION + N-O
CHANNEL-3 TYPE:NORMAL
CLOSE
CHANNEL-4 TYPE:NOT
INSTALLED

PRESS (¿À), THEN ( )

PRESS() TO EXIT

PROGRAMMED RECORD

+ T T T S S T T T T T T T T T +

0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24

Follow the steps as below to
activate motion-detection
recording.

1.Please go to “SENSOR
SETUP” menu as the left
figure shown.

2. Select out the motion option.

3. After the selection, please
be back to MAIN MENU and
go to “PROGRAMMED
RECORD” to power on the
alarm setting.

Notice: The setting under
“PROGRAMMED RECORD” is
necessary for starting the

PRESS (

PRESS() TO EXIT

¿À), THEN ( )

operation of motion detection
recording.

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Operation guide

PLAYBACK

Please use the front panel buttons to operate various playback functions.

SEARCH TIME

HDD: MASTER
04/03/24 13:24:21-04/03/24 13:44:54
>01 TIME 04/03/24 13:24:21
>02 TIME 04/03/24 13:30:55
>03 TIME 04/03/24 13:40:54

(¿À) MOVE,() CHANGE,(f)PLAY

Press “f” button, then the playback time /events
selection menu as the left figure appears on the
screen. Or you can simply press “f” twice to directly
start playing.

You can either enter the specified time/date to
playback or select the ev e nt or ev e n view th e
playback over PC

NOTICE

CONTROL BUTTONS

1. Please stop recording before playback.

2. Because the events selection is default
setting, so you need to press “” button to
switch to time selection.

1. (fast forward button):
Press this button to play the recorded stream
faster.
The unit provides three levels of fast forward
playback speed:

1: play one time faster (x1), press “” button
2: play two times faster (x2) than the normal play
3: play four times faster (x4) than th e normal play
4: play thirty-two times faster (x32) than the normal

play

5: play sixty-four times faster (x64) than the normal

play

2.  (reverse button):
Press this button to play the recorded stream backward.
Remarks: the reverse playback speed depends on the

fps, the number of the recorded channel, the
video quality.

3.  (pause button) :
Press this button to pause the playback, or to advance

one single frame upon pause mode.

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Optional functions:Backup via USB port

Optional functions:Backup via USB port

The unit provides one USB port to
simple backup over the connection with
PC. Please mind the following steps to
successful link.
Step 1. Connect the USB cable between
the unit and PC
Step 2. Select “LINK TO PC” under
submenu of the unit

Step3. The “linking” will take around
30sec.
Step4. The connection is ready for PC
backup as “Linked” indicates on the
screen.
Step 5. Open the PC viewer on PC, once
PC identifies one unknown Hardware
device
Step6. Press”Menu” button back to
“Main Menu”

Warning:.Please don’t press
“MENU” button during linking
status, it would likely lead to
unpredictable Error on your PC

REMARKS: Please refer to Page.25 for
the PC viewer installation and operation
guide.

Notice: 1.the unit employs USB 2.O, so
it will take around 5 min to hand shake
with USB 1.0.

2. Before operating backup over USB,
please install PC viewer software into
your PC.

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Optional functions: Network Setup

Optional functions: Network Setup

NETWORK SETUP
ACCEPT IP YES
MAC ADDRESS 03:01:01:01:25:46
IP ADDRESS 192.168.000.090
SUBNET MASK 255,255,255,000
GATEWAY 192.168.000.001

PRESS (¿À), THEN ( )

PRESS() TO EXIT

Notice:

1.PC Minimum requirements
of Networking :

CPU: 1 GHZ or above
System Memory: 256MB

or above

VGA memory: 32MB
OS: Window2000/XP

2. Please assign 14337,
14338 to the Port to install
DVR in a LAN with a static IP
address under a router ( with
firewall) for sharing with
other equipments like PC.

1) The first option “enabled network
client”, please make sure is set to
YES

2) MAC setting will not need to be
altered.

3) *IP address (a static I P address ) will
need to be set to the DVR IP address
you planning to allocate to, while you
connect to Internet.

4) Subnet mask will need to be obtained
from the routing device.

5) #Gateway IP address (IP address A)
will need to be obtained from the
routing device.

Please check with your M.I.S staff or
administrator to enter th e setting of MAC
ADDRESS, IP ADDRESS,SUBN ET MASK
and GATEWAY Or please refer th e le ft
figure as a example for your reference

Optional function-DHCP configuration.
The is optional function allows to connect

DVR and remote PC

via DHCP configuration within your LAN

environment!

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6) DVR ID on LAN : use “” button to
specify the DVR’s identification as
nickname with 26 alphabets
appearing in sequential order.

7) DHCP [ON] : press”” to confirm the
installation as [ON].(the default
setting :OFF), and re-power on the
DVR. Then the DVR will
automatically get dynamic IP

Optional function guide:Audio recordin g

AUDIO RECORD[ON]

AUDIO MUTE [OFF]

PRESS (¿À), THEN ( )

PRESS() TO EXIT

The unit support one-ch Audio/in,
please set “AUDIO RECORD” on
to activate Audio operation

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Appendix I.

Appendix I.

Regulatory

FCC Certification

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for
a class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These
limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful
interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial
environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio
frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the
instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio
communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is
likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be
required to correct the interference a the own expense.

CE Mark

This product is marked with the CE symbol and indicates compliance
with all applicable directives.

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Appendix II: PC Viewer application

Appendix II: PC Viewer application

PC Viewer, being install ed into your PC, enables you to export
Video data from DVR to your PC or convert the DATA into AVI format!

Search

Play

Please follow the steps below to complete the installation of pc viewer:

1. You can access Video data via the connection between PC and DVR or
directly install HDD into PC

2. Please install PC viewer software into your PC (This software currently

supports Windows2000 and Windows XP!) and enter into the software, then

you will see a dialog box as above( figure 1) appear on the screen.

( The software can ’ t be activated until the HDD is connected to PC!!! )

3. a. Search button : click to open the submenu for selecting data to playba ck

Play button: a. directly click to start the fir st beginning of the data

Button for Fast forward playback speed : 5 levels of
playback speed: 1, 4, 16, 32,64

Button for advancing one single frame

Button for one single frame ba ckward
b. Click to start the playback after data-search
c. Backup to AVI button : clic k to create a new file to save AVI file in PC

and start to convert the data into AVI file

d. Capture button: click to snapshot the data as BMP file.

e. HDD selection:click to select the spe cified HDD among multiple

HDDs installed (either in DVR or in PC system)

Capture

Backup
to AVI

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Appendix II: PC Viewer application

Appendix II: PC Viewer application

1. Click on “Search” key to retrieve the desired video to vie w through entering
the time/date or selecting event, then you will see the dialog box as below.

Enter the date/time to retrieve
the data you want to view

Click on this button and have a list of
events will show up for your selection.

b. Please click on “Play” button to start the playback after your

confirmation on the retrieval. ( This is a must step to initially activate the

playback!!!)

6. Click on “ AVI save as” button to convert the desirable data i nto AVI file,
then you will see the following dialog box for saving the AVI file. After
specifying the file nam e and confirmation, please click on “ Backup to AVI”
to start the conversion.

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Appendix III: PC Client Application.

Appendix III: PC Client Application.

This dedicated remote PC client software allows you

from a remote location to view live and recorded video over
Internet. Also, you can capture,convert the video from the unit
into AVI file or JPEG file, or play the stored video later on.
Please follow the instructions below to use PC client.

After you install PC cli ent software into your PC, the Main
window will appear on screen:

Main Window of PC client software

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Appendix III: PC Client Application.

Appendix III: PC Client Application.

1. How to connect to the DVR
click on “Connect” option on Main window

Click on “Connect “ to enter into

“DVR Client connection manager”

As the following dialog window

Optional function

Optional function

:

1. DVR IP: The DVR IP address is the IP address of the
remote DVR.

2. Password : The password is same password used for
formatting the DVR’s Hard Drive. The default value is
111111

Optional function-DHCP configuration.
The is optional function allows to connect DVR and remote PC
via DHCP configuration within your LAN environment!

Nickname: Once DHCP settings is configured in DVR, please

click on “Search DVR” to find out the unit you want to
connect to from the list. You can skip the DVR IP and
just input password, then click on “OK” to start
connecting.

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Appendix III: PC Client Application.

Appendix III: PC Client Application.

2. Connection Status:

When successfully connected, you would see” Connected”
sign. This window also di splays DVR IP address and shows
changes of connection speed .

• To disconnect, simply click “ Disconnect “

• To close the application, click “ Close Window” button

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Appendix III: PC Client Application.

Appendix III: PC Client Application.

3. DVR control

The panel shown as the following figure operates e xactly
as the remote DVR operational button allow you to control
remote DVR to live view, record and playback as well.

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Appendix III: PC Client Application.

Appendix III: PC Client Application.

4. Capture & Playback on you PC

4-1 Capture video data
When you click “REC” button, it will
start to record the incoming video
on your PC hard disk. The DVR
client creates “ steam_files”folder
where the execution file is located.
When the client is recording, the
Capture & Play status indicator
would show the current status, REC.

4-2 Playback
After recording is finished, click”
Play” button to play the recorded
video stream. Then you will see a
stream file list of the video stream
files previously captured.

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Appendix III: PC Client Application.

5. DVR management

This option enables you to adjust remote DVR’s operation setting :
Video Quality, Record Frame rate, Alarm On Dur ation, Alarm record
Duration, Input Channels, Record Channels, DVR system time setting
and Record Schedule. All of settings operate as you do with DVR itself.
Notice: For the record mode change can be made only on DVR, so the
display shows the cu rrent DVR record mode on c onnection.

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Appendix III: PC Client Application.

Appendix III: PC Client Application.

6. AVI file

Click on this button to convert th e real-time
video data or the recorded data into AVI file

Click on “ AVI save as” button to convert the desirable data into AVI file,
then you will see the following dialog box for saving the AVI file. After
specifying the file nam e and confirmation, please click on “ Backup to AVI”

to start the conversion.

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Appendix III: PC Client Application.

Appendix III: PC Client Application.

8. Single Channel Scaler

Single channel scaler is effective only in single channel mode. If you are
viewing single channel, you can scale it up/down by selecting these
options.

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Appendix IV

The following is the recording t ime vs video quality

settings table for your reference

Frame/Second

HI 897H 448

回

MODE

田

MODE

NORMA
L

LO 1365

HI 690H 345

NORMA
L

LO

Frame/Second

1 2 3 4 5 7 10 15 30

H

1092
H

H

840H 420

1050
7H

546
H

682
H

H

H
525

H

299
H

364
H

455
H

230
H

280
H

350
H

223
H

273
H

340
H

172
H

210
H

262
H

179
H

218
H

273
H

138
H

168
H

210
H

104
H

152
H

191
H

96H 69H 46H 23H

117
H

147
H

89H 59H 29H

109
H

136
H

84H 56H 28H

105
H

72H 36H

91H 45H

70H 35H

NTSC format

2512864321

回

MODE

田

MODE

HI

NORMA
L

LO

HI 23H46H69H96H138

NORMA
L

LO

448
H

546
H

682
H

345
H

420
H

525
H

299
H

364
H

455
H

230
H

280
H

350
H

223
H

273
H

340
H

172
H

210
H

262
H

179
H

218
H

273
H

H
168

H
210

H

H
152

H
191

H

H
147

H

H

H

H

PAL format

29H59H89H104

36H72H109

45H91H136

28H56H84H117

35H70H105

PS: The recording hours on 80GB HDD

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