Mitsubishi DX-PC25U Instruction Manual

Instruction Manual

DX-PC25U (Ver. 1.0)

For Windows® 98SE
For Windows® ME
For Windows® 2000
For Windows® XP

This instruction manual is important to you. Please read this before to use the software.

End User Software License Agreement

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc. ("MDEA"), which is a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of
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video data. Unauthorized copying by User of copyright protected audio and video data is not
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intellectual property violation by User incurred from the Users transfer of audio or video data
during the use of this Software.

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during the use of this Software.

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- Windows 98SE is an abbreviation of Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition.

- Windows 2000 is an abbreviation of Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional.

- Windows Me is an abbreviation of Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition.

- Windows XP is an abbreviation of Microsoft Windows XP.

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Contents

1. Introduction

1.1 Product Features

1.2 System Requirement

1.3 Compatible Digital Recorder

2. Installation

2.1 DX-PC25U Installation

2.2 Uninstalling

3. Viewing Live Pictures

3.1 How to connect

3.1.1 Starting DX-PC25U Setting up connection

3.1.2 Connecting

3.2 Viewing Live Video

3.3 Zooming Live Pictures

3.4 Assigning Camera Position

3.5 Changing Picture Quality

3.6 Controlling Telemetry Cameras

4. Search and Viewing Recorded Video

4.1 Playback

4.2 Time Date Search

4.3 Alarm List Search

4.4 Zooming Picture

5. Copying Video to a local PC

5.1 Copying Single Picture to a local PC

5.2 Exporting Picture File to a local PC

6. Alarm Notification to a connected PC

6.1 Setting up

7. Alarm Notification by e-mail

7.1 Setting up

8. Administrator Functions

8.1 Setting up a new User, Password and Access Rights

8.2 Changing the unit name or adding sites

9. Setting up menu of the unit over network

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10. Convenient Functions

10.1 Bookmarks

10.2 Help Menu

10.3 Renew Info

10.4 Front Switch Operation of TL2500U

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1. Introduction

Mitsubishi DX-PC25U is viewing software designed for the Digital Video Recorder (DVR) DX-TL2500U. This

software enables you to connect and communicated via a network with the DVR and also to playback saved
images (saved on CFC or CD from DVR) on your PC

► View live or playback video of all cameras connected to the recorder.
► Search for a specific video Date&Time, Alarm or Recording Index.
► Save a still picture as a bitmap or JPEG format. It is also possible to convert the still pictures into

AVI format.

► Control functions of the recorder and PTZ camera remotely.
► Change the setting of the recorder via network.

1.1 Product Features

▪ View live images across a network in full or split screen mode.
▪ Control PTZ cameras

▪ View recorded images across a network with split screen modes, Search via Fast Forward, Rewind,

Time and Date or Alarm List.

▪ Copy images to the user’s PC.

▪ Receive alarms notice
▪ Control and SETUP menu of DX-TL2500U from a network.

1.2 System requirements

- IBM PC/AT-compatible with Intel Pentium series or Intel Celeron series CPU (500MHz or faster)

- Microsoft Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows Me or Windows XP

- RAM: 256MB or more

- Display resolution: 1024 pixels x 768 lines (XGA) or more (recommended). Use a video card and
monitor capable of displaying 32,000 or more colors.

- Free HD space: 200MB or more

- SCSI adapter : Adaptec AHA-2940 Series, SlimSCSI etc. compatible with
WINASPI32 and SCSI-2 (when SCSI-connected peripheral devices are used) Under
Windows 2000, WinASPI must be installed in advance for the playback of SCSI-connected devices.

Please read the instruction manual for Adaptec SCSI board for the installation of WinASPI.

- Sound adapter : Windows-compatible type; SoundBlaster etc.

- Installed browser: MS Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 2 or later

- Network interface (10Base-T) card compatible with the environment described above

Note: Operations are not guaranteed for all environments confirming to the above description.

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1.3 Compatible Digital Recorders

- DX-TL2500U

- DX-TL900U Series (Playback of copied data on digital storage media only. Some of the functions
may not work properly.)

2. Installation

2.1 DX-PC25U Installation

To install the DX-PC25U, first start up SETUP.EXE on the provided CD. Follow the series of instructions that
appear on-screen, and then the software will be installed automatically.
The default directory for the installation is C:/Program Files/DX-PC25U.

2.2 Uninstalling

To uninstall DX-PC25U, open the Install/Remove Applications dialog box in the Operation Panel and select
DX-PC25U for deleting or select the Uninstall DX-PC25U command from the Start menu, and follow the series

of instructions that appear on-screen to complete the procedure.

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3. Connecting to a DX-TL2500U and Viewing live Video

3.1 How to connect

3.1.1 Starting DX-PC25U

After the program installation, go to Start Menu of Windows and choose DX-PC25U from the menu.

Then the DX-PC25U starts and opens control panel.

Control panel

Menu bar

Media information window

Image information window

Video window

Picture size

Playback position slider Alarm list search

Time & Date search

Index search buttons

Play device

Display format buttons Bookmark Live button
Playback control buttons Renew information button
Camera select buttons Playback speed control slider Layout save button

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Commands in menu bar

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Commands in video window

.1.2 Setting up connection

3

When you start the DX-PC25U, you see the Network box..

To

view all the settings of the listed recorder or to register a

new recorder, click the check box of Details.

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