Milestone Screen Recorder 1.5 User Manual

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Contents

Contents

INTRODUCTION................................................................................ 4

HOW XPROTECT SCREEN RECORDER WORKS .......................... 5

LICENSING ....................................................................................... 6

INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING ON COMPUTER ....................... 7

SET PASSWORD .................................................................................................. 8

SET PORT NUMBER ............................................................................................. 9

SET MAC ADDRESS .......................................................................................... 10

CONFIGURING AFTER INSTALLING ON COMPUTER ................. 11

CHANGE PASSWORD ......................................................................................... 11

CHANGE PORT NUMBER ..................................................................................... 11

CHANGE MAC ADDRESS ................................................................................... 11

INSTALLING ON RECORDING SERVER ....................................... 12

SET FRAMES PER SECOND/LIVE FRAME RATE ...................................................... 12

SET QUALITY .................................................................................................... 12

SET CAPTURE MODE ......................................................................................... 12

SECURITY ....................................................................................... 13

TROUBLESHOOTING ..................................................................... 14

UNINSTALLING FROM COMPUTER .............................................. 16

INDEX .............................................................................................. 17

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Copyright, trademarks and disclaimer

Copyright
© 2012 Milestone Systems A/S.
Trademarks
XProtect is a registered trademark of Milestone Systems A/S.
Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. App Store is a service mark of Apple

Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc.
All other trademarks mentioned in this document are trademarks of their respective owners.
Disclaimer
This text is intended for general information purposes only, and due care has been taken in its preparation.
Any risk arising from the use of this information rests with the recipient, and nothing herein should be construed

as constituting any kind of warranty.
Milestone Systems A/S reserve the right to make adjustments without prior notification.
All names of people and organizations used in the examples in this text are fictitious. Any resemblance to any

actual organization or person, living or dead, is purely coincidental and unintended.
This product may make use of third party software for which specific terms and conditions may apply. When that

is the case, you can find more information in the file 3rd_party_software_terms_and_conditions.txt located in
your Milestone surveillance system installation folder.

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Introduction

Introduction

This manual describes the Milestone XProtect Screen Recorder® feature. It allows a Windows computer to act as
an IP video camera, sending the contents of its desktop to the XProtect® recording server to which it is
connected. The XProtect Screen Recorder feature consists of a small application to be installed on one or more
Windows computer(s) (from which you wish to record desktop contents) and a camera driver (included in XProtect
Device Pack 6.0 and later versions).

XProtect Screen Recorder works with all XProtect products. And on the following Windows platforms in both 32­and 64-bit versions: XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows server 2003 and 2008.

In this document, when the term "recording server" is used, it exclusively refers to XProtect recording servers.

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How XProtect Screen Recorder works

How XProtect Screen Recorder works

Once installed, XProtect Screen Recorder is automatically controlled from the startup menu of the computer
where it is installed and runs in the context of the user logged into this computer. This means that XProtect
Screen Recorder will automatically—and invisibly—start up every time the user logs in to the computer and close
down every time the user closes down.

If on-line user-switching is done via Window's Fast User Switching feature, the XProtect Screen Recorder will
continue to record in the context of the new user, however any other type of user-switching/-logging in or out will
result in discontinuation of the feature. For more details see: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-

us/windows7/Switch-users-without-logging-off http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Switch-users­without-logging-off.

This is possible because it is a service running in the background, capturing the computer’s screen at a set frame

rate. It is also this service which provides the interface that your XProtect surveillance system can connect to and
retrieve images from—much like on any normal camera.

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Licensing

Licensing

When you add a screen recorder device from a relevant XProtect Management Application on the recording
server side, you will need a Milestone camera license—just like with any other camera. However, downloading
and installing the XProtect Screen Recorder software is free of charge and it can be installed as many times as
needed.

Note that XProtect Screen Recorder can and may only be used with Milestone software.