Netvision DVR system User Manual

DVR Server Manual

Netvision DVR system

USER’ S GUIDE

China Chongqing Netvision Technology Co., Ltd

TEL: (86)23—68697255 FAX :(86)23—68639816

www.jstdvr.com

www.Netvisiondvr.com

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Contents

Chapter1 Start up and Main Interface..........................12

1.1 Preparation & Uninstallation.....................................................12

1.1.1 Preparation..................................................................................... 12

1.1.2 Uninstallation ................................................................................. 13

1.1.3 NV Series IPC Scan ........................................................................ 14

1.2 Disk Management......................................................................15

1.2.1 Create Package............................................................................... 17

1.2.2 Manage Package............................................................................. 18

1.3 Start up ......................................................................................18

1.4 Main Interface ...........................................................................19

1.4.1 Show Tips ........................................................................................ 19

1.4.2 Screen Menu.................................................................................... 20

1.4.3 Interface Description...................................................................... 28

1.4.4 System Menu ................................................................................... 32

1.4.5 Motion Detection Area & Cover Setup........................................... 42

1.4.6 Network Panel................................................................................. 46

1.4.7 PTZ Control Panel.......................................................................... 46

1.4.8 Color and Audio Adjustment........................................................... 50

1.4.9 Matrix & Display............................................................................ 51

1.4.10 DI/DO Control.............................................................................. 51

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Chapter2 Local Setup................................................... 53

2.1 System Setup.............................................................................53

2.1.1 System Setup.................................................................................... 53

2.1.2 Network Setup................................................................................. 55

2.1.3 Boot Setup....................................................................................... 58

2.2 Camera Setup ............................................................................58

2.2.1 Camera Setup.................................................................................. 58

2.2.2 Group Setup.................................................................................... 62

2.3 Sensor Setup..............................................................................65

2.3.1 Sensor Setup.................................................................................... 65

2.3.2 Group Setup.................................................................................... 65

2.4 PTZ & Linkage Setup................................................................67

2.4.1 PTZ Protocol Setup......................................................................... 67

2.4.2 Motion Detection Relay.................................................................. 68

2.5 E-mail & SMS Setup.................................................................70

2.5.1 Email Setup..................................................................................... 72

2.5.2 SMS Setup ....................................................................................... 73

2.6 Matrix & Display Setup.............................................................73

2.6.1 Matrix Setup.................................................................................... 74

2.6.2 Display Setup.................................................................................. 76

2.7 Password Setup..........................................................................78

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2.7.1 User Information............................................................................. 78

2.7.2 User Right Setup............................................................................. 79

Chapter3 IP Camera Setup........................................... 81

3.1 Functional Buttons ....................................................................82

3.2 Server Setup ..............................................................................83

3.3 Channel Setup............................................................................84

3.4 PTZ Control...............................................................................86

3.5 Sensor Setup..............................................................................88

3.6 Alarm Setup...............................................................................90

Chapter4 Playback........................................................92

4.1 Main Interface ...........................................................................92

4.2 Steps of Playback ......................................................................92

4.2.1 Select Date...................................................................................... 93

4.2.2 Select Record Type .......................................................................... 93

4.2.3 Select Camera................................................................................. 93

4.2.4 Select File........................................................................................ 95

4.3 Play File and Related Operations ..............................................97

4.4 Capture Picture..........................................................................98

4.5 Backup.......................................................................................98

4.5.1 Create File Clip .............................................................................. 99

4.5.2 Backup by Time............................................................................. 100

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4.5.3 View Backup File .......................................................................... 103

4.5.4 Burn Video File to DVD/CD......................................................... 104

4.6 Search Captured Pictures.........................................................105

4.7 POS Playback..........................................................................106

4.8 ACU Playback.........................................................................106

4.9 ICON Playback........................................................................108

Chapter5 IE Client ....................................................... 109

5.1 Functions of IE Client .............................................................109

5.2 Main Interface .........................................................................109

5.2.1 Connection Operations..................................................................110

5.2.2 Connection/Record Status..............................................................110

5.2.3 Partition Mode............................................................................... 111

5.2.4 PTZ Control................................................................................... 111

5.2.5 Search/R-search .............................................................................111

5.2.6 Quit Program.................................................................................1 11

5.3 Local Search............................................................................ 111

5.3.1 Display Setup and Data Information.............................................112

5.3.2 Playing Operation Area.................................................................1 12

5.4 Remote Search......................................................................... 113

5.4.1 Fast Download Record Data.........................................................113

Chapter6 Mobile Client ............................................... 115

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6.1 Recommended Mobile Phone Requirements........................... 115

6.2 Download Software................................................................. 116

6.3 Install and Connect..................................................................116

6.3.1 Installation.....................................................................................116

6.3.2 Connection.....................................................................................117

6.4 Login Interface ........................................................................117

6.5 Camera List ............................................................................. 117

6.6 PTZ Control............................................................................. 118

Appendix A: Fast Key Reference............................... 119

Appendix B: Audio Preview ....................................... 121

NV Series Card Audio Preview.....................................................121

DG Series Card Audio Preview.....................................................122

Appendix C: How to Use “Copy File” Folder............ 123

Appendix D: DVR Board Explanation........................ 124

NV Series Board Cards .................................................................124

DG Series Board Cards .................................................................124

Appendix E: How to Use 3G Function....................... 125

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Introductions

Thank you for purchasing Netvision DVR System. This operation manual
is to introduce how to set DVR system and explain each function for you to use
the system effectively and stably.

Users should read this manual thoroughly before you install/utilize the
DVR system.

New Functions

1. Add Fast Playback Function in context menu. Refer to Page 22.

2. Add IP Camera Motion Setup in context menu. Refer to Page 27.

3. Onvif supported. Refer to Page 37.

4. Select to disable or enable dual monitor in Setup. Refer to Page 52.

5. Handle sensor alarm sent from IP cameras. Refer to Page 64.

6. User can set the interval of Motion Send Email/SMS to be up to 3
minutes. Refer to Page 68.

7. Select which group to display in Matrix & Display and decide whether
one camera will be displayed. Refer to Page 74.

8. New user (operator) can set its own password when login in the first
time. Refer to Page 76.

9. Auto Backup function is removed from Backup & Video Convertor
Program. User can also backup and convert video manually in
playback as in Menu. Refer to Page 97.

10. View up to 4 channels via iPhone mobileclient.

11. Ipad supported.

12. Webclient updated. Refer to Page 106.

For 10 and 11, please refer to our iPhone user manual for details.

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System Features

-Support Backup manually or by schedule. Manual backup data can be

played by TV, DVD or windows media player directly without plugins. Please
refer to Backup Manual for details.

-Support Android phones.

-Support 3G functions for DG series IP cameras.

-Support plug and play disks.

-Support dual-monitor and multi-monitor in diffierent desktop display

mode.

-Support NV series board cards and DG series cards inserted on the

same PC.

-Support multi-brand of mobile client, like iPhone, Blackberry and Nokia

etc.

-Support 64bit OS installation.

-Support multi-brand of IP cameras, such as Mobotix, Sony, Acti,

Arecontvision, Vivotek and SanYo etc.

-Hardware support H.264 compression, low HDD cost.

-Web access through LAN or WAN

-Real time full-motion video-capture & display (Up to 64 channels video

input)

-Real time high-speed recording: Up to 30 fps per channel

-Synchronous audio recording (optional)

-Motion detection (Whole area or up to 12 detection zones per channel)

-Normal recording (continuous) and event recording (Motion detection or

external sensor)

-Electron Map pop-up when alarm happens

-System operating and alarm logging

-Alarm-before recording

-Remote recording

-Sending alarm message automatically

-Sending alarm image to email box as attachment automatically

-Send SMS when alarm happen

-Matrix display and group display

-Duplex mode (Recording while playback)

-Network support (Remote access via LAN, Ethernet, PSTN, ISDN, ADSL)

-P/T/Z/F & speed demo control on keyboard

-Search/playback by date/time directory (random-access)

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-Backup & burn CD directly

-Remote talking between server and client or server and server

-Support the following eight kinds of resolution: 1024*768 pixels,

1280*768 pixels, 1280*1024 pixels, 1366*768 pixels, 1440*900 pixels,
1600*900 pixels, 1680*1050 pixels and 1920*1080 pixels.

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Important Information:

For optimal performance of your system, it is important to follow these

recommendations.

We recommend that you divide your hard disk into two partitions (E.g. C
and D) at least. The first partition is used to install Windows OS and system
software, the other for storing record files. Each partition should not be larger
than 2.5TB.

Please use appropriate motherboard and display card. Contact your
dealers or our support engineers if you have questions.

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Recommended System Requirements

Chipset: Intel 875PE, 915P, 945P, 965P

Motherboard: Intel: D915/945PCY, D865PERL

Asus: P4P800SE, P5P800 MSI: 865PE Neo2-F, 915/925/945;

Gigabit: GA-865GME, GA-945PL-G etc

Video Card: ATI Rodeon 9250 128MB, ATI Radeon 9550 128MB, ATI
X500, X550, X700 etc;

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz or better

Memory: 512MB minimum

This is the lowest requirements to run the system. If you want to have
more channels, higher quality and quicker speed, please upgrade your system.
However, there is a limitation. Not always the higher configuration will perform
the better.

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Chapter1 Start up and Main

Interface

1.1 Preparation & Uninstallation

1.1.1 Preparation

Before you run DVR system, please be sure following issues:

All connectors are firmly connected;

Install the driver of compression cards correctly. For detailed information,
please refer to Driver Installation Manual;

Set the resolution of monitor equal to or greater than 1024*768 pixels.

Now user can install DVR on 64 bit OS. But you can’t insert DG cards
together when you run DVR on 64 bit OS because DG cards support only 32
bit OS.

In order to make DVR server run normally in windows 7 OS, please take
note one of the following things must be done:

1. Activate "administrator" to do all the operations, such as install
software, operate software, etc. The steps to activate are as below:

First, single-right-click “Computer” icon->Manage->Local Users and

Groups->Users->Administrators->not to check “Account is disabled”.

Then, switch user or log off to log in with Administrator.

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2. Adjust UAC settings to "Never notify", shown in the below pictures:

To 64 bit OS, you have to download and install two patches: KB978637
and KB976264. You should download them from MSDNAA manually. They
can’t be installed automatically when system updates.

1.1.2 Uninstallation

When you want to change this version to another one, you should uninstall
it. Click “StartÆ All programsÆ DVR serverÆ Uninstall DVR” to uninstall DVR.

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1.1.3 NV Series IPC Scan

Click StartÆ All programsÆ DVR ServerÆ Insatll WinPcap_4_0_2 to
install the NV series IPC scan tool.

Click StartÆ All programsÆ DVR ServerÆ NV Series IPC Scan to scan
NV series IP cameras connected in the LAN.

Device type, IP address, Port number, Device Serial No., mask, mac,
channels, software version, DSP version and start time will be displayed in the
search tool. You can modify the IP and port more conveniently when you click
“modify” button on the right. You should enter password to confirm the
modification. The default password is “12345”.

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Note:

To DG series IPC scan, please refer to Add DG Series IP Device for

details.

1.2 Disk Management

After installed DVR Server, you should assign space for recording,
otherwise, software can’t record. Actually, system will run disk management
automatically after you installed DVR Server. Also, you can run disk
management to assign space when you want.

However, you should input correct user name and password to get access
to Disk management when manger disables the disk manage right of some

operators in Password Setup.

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Disk manager under installed folder

Main interface of disk manager

【Disk Drives】:Display the disk and its format.

【Total Size(M)】:Display the total size of the disk.

【Free Space(M)】:Display the total free space of the disk, which is the

maximum space can be assigned for recording.

【Allotted Data Package】:Display the number of data package, which has

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been assigned for recording before.

【Residual Data Package】:Display the number of data package that can
be assigned for recording.

【

Residual Data Package】 = 【Free Space(M)】/256

【New Data Package】:Select the number of the data package that user
want to create for recording.

【

New Data Package】 ≤ 【Residual Data Package】

1.2.1 Create Package

Select the number of new data package

User can select the number of data package for each disk in the

drop-down list. Then user can press

button to create data

package and index for recording. After that, software could calculate the rest
space automatically.

Note:

Please format the whole disk thoroughly before using it to be recorded.

Each package for recording (Recdata****.mp4) is 256MB, and it is
associated with its index file (RecIndex****.inx). They must work together, or

user can’t playback recording data correctly. Also, user can’t modify them
unless deleting them together manually.

By default, disk C and Disk D are used for system application, so our

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software will not use it (default: 【New Data Package】= 0) unless you change
it.

Since windows will pop up information to warn when the disk has low
space, by default, our software will leave 3 packages (about 256*3=768 MB)
for disks (except C and D) to avoid that information. That is to say, the default
value of disks (except C and D):

【

New Data Package】 = 【Residual Data Package】-3

Software will cost much more time to create data package and index for
FAT32 system than that for NTSC.

1.2.2 Manage Package

After the data package is created, user can click to

delete the data package manually. After that, the space of the disk will be
released; user can assign them for recording again.

You can delete all the record files by “Clear All Record”. You can also
delete the files according to time or camera number.

1.3 Start up

Double click shortcut icon to run DVR Server. The main
interface is as below:

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Main interface of DVR Server

Note:

1. When user runs the DVR Server without a valid license for
compression cards or IP products, system will pop up a dialog box to
inform you. System will work under trial version; if you want to use full
version, please contact your supplier or us directly to get it.

2. DVR Server supports several different size of main interface:
1024*768, 1280*768, 1280*1024, 1366*768, 1440*900, 1600*900,
1680*1050 and 1920*1080. When you want to run DVR, the resolution
should be set as 1024*768 at least.

1.4 Main Interface

1.4.1 Show Tips

When the mouse moves closely or stops above a button, a text tip will be

shown to interpret its function immediately;

Zoom in/out video image: Left-Double-Click a camera window to zoom

in/out video image (Or press F11 on the keyboard);

System will detect cards and read the total channel number automatically,
and the corresponding serial number of active will be displayed on information
display panel.

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Recording status:

-- The system is recording continuously;

-- The system is recording manually;

-- The system is recording in motion detection alarm;

-- The system is recording in event alarm.

1.4.2 Screen Menu

After user enable Keyboard Shortcut, you can press TAB key or Page
Down (select next camera window) and Page UP (select previous camera

window) key on keyboard to select a window.

Users can Single-Right-Click image area (compression card camera
windows, IP product camera windows and unused windows) to popup the
screen menu as below.

1. Full Screen

User can Single-Right-Click image area to popup the screen menu, then

select “Full Screen Display” to view image area in full screen (or press F12 on

keyboard). When you want to restore, you should Single-Right-Click image

area and select “Restore Display”.

Besides, user can Double-Left-Click a selected window to enlarge it. You
can restore it by the same way. You can also press F11 on the keyboard to do
the same operations.

2. Close/Open Image Display

Single-Right-Click desired camera window and select Close/Open Image

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Display (IP cameras included) to close/open the image displayed in current

window.

The camera will continue to record even if it’s not displayed.

3. Instant Playback

Single-Right-Click desired camera window and select Instant playback

(IP cameras included). After that, choose a time from the submenu, and then
system will play back video data of current camera in current window
according to your selection (E.g.: you select 1min, system will play back
previous 1 minute video data of current camera in current window).

Also, you can play back video data of one current live camera in a window
that is not used by any cameras (always black background with no “Video
Loss” information): Select a window, and then Single-Right-Click it to select

“Instant playback”. Finally, choose a time and the camera you want to

playback, and then system will play back video data in current window
according to your selection.

The window that is playing back video data will be indicated with a yellow

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border to be different from the live windows.

In the course of instant playback(for both of the compression card camera

and the IP camera), you can press Space key to switch the play/pause status
and direction key → or ← to play next or previous frame.

If you want to stop the instant playback, you can Single-Right-Click the

playing back window, and select End playback.

While instant playback is in processing, if you want to play it again, you

can select Review playback function. You can press Space key to switch the

play/pause status. In pause status, you can press key → or ← to play next or
previous frame. When the screen plays, you can press ↑and ↓to control the
speed of playing, also, in play status you can press → or ← to play in normal
speed or play it from the beginning again.

4. Fast Playback

The following interface will be shown after you clicked Fast Play in context
menu if there is record data.

It will pop up to tell you no record data was found and ask you to change
the play time when there is no record data to the selected camera.

Button Description

Play, Pause, Stop

Next Frame

Play Speed Control: Drag the slider bar to the left to slow

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down or to the right to speed up.

Grab Picture: The captured pictures will be saved in the same path as

you set in system setup.

Save Record Data: Press this button to begin to save record data and

press it again to end.

5. Start Alarm Popup

Single-Right-Click video image area in main interface and select “Start
alarm popup” after you set “Alarm camera popup interval” in System Setup,
otherwise, it can’t be selected with gray. After that when there is a motion
detection alarm (set in PTZ & Linkage Setup and Motion Detection Setup) or
an alarm triggered by sensor (set in Sensor Setup), system will display alarm
cameras in sequence. When you want to end this function, you can
Single-Right-Click video image area and select “Pause alarm popup”.

This function is also suitable for IP camera.

Note:

The five functions as above are suitable for both of the compression card
camera and the IP camera.

6. Disk Record Status

Click this item to view the disk record status of your PC.

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Also, you can view the disk record status of your PC-DVR remotely via
NVR. Please refert to NVR user manual for details.

7. Record Time Calculate

Click “Record Time Calculate” to calculate the record time of your
cameras.

It will calculate only the registerred cameras.

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8. OSD Adjustment

Single-Right-Click video image area in main interface and select “OSD
Adjustment” to adjust the position of OSD (IP Camera does not have this
function. You can set the OSD position in IP Camera Setup remotely).

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OSD includes time and channel name. In this screen you can press time
or channel name and drag them to where you want directly, after that you can

press button to save and press button to resume time

and channel name to default position.

9. Send to TV Monitor

Send to Monitor: Send the current camera to the selected Monitor. Stay
Time: Select the time to stay.

When there is a NV42XXHFV card used in the system, there will be one
more video output port listed. For example, there will be 3 video ouput listed
when there are one NV4002MD and one NV4208HFV.

Note:

The 2 functions as above are only suitable for the compression card
camera. If you want to adjust the OSD, you can set it in IP Camera Setup
remotely. And when you enable the decode function in the add IP device

interface, Send to TV Monitor is also available to IP devices.

10. IP Camera Setup

For this function, it is only available when you Right-single-Click image of
IP camera.

It will be described in details in

IP Camera Setup.

11. Audio Chat to IP Cam

Press this tool bar, and then you can select the “Audio Chat to IP Cam”
function to chat with the IP Cam as bellow:

12. IP Camera Motion Setup

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You have to setup motion detection correctly before you set motion record
or handle motion alarm from IP cameras. The steps to setup motion detection
of IP cameras are as below:

1. Check the box in front of Enabled.

2. Drag the mouse to draw an area for motion detection which will be
marked with yellow border.

3. Setup the suitable Motion Value and Sensitivity. You can click Default
to restore the default settings.

After all the above steps are done, there will be red boxes when there is

movement in the detected area.

13. IP Video Zoom in

If you press this tool bar, you select the image zoom out function, click the

mouse-left in the image, it will zoom out as bellow:

If you want to display the normal image, you should select IP Video

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Restore function.

Note:

The 4 functions as above are only suitable for the IP camera.

14. About IP Register

Select this option to get your register information as below:

System will display the serial number of unregistered NV series IP, DG
series EMDVR and Dahua series IP. And display the server name only when
they are registered. To other series, system will display their USB dog serial
number when they are registered. Otherwise, only display the server name.

1.4.3 Interface Description

1. Partition Mode

Press button to set the window’s partition mode of the main screen.

There are many types of partitions; the available partition is determined by the
total channels of cards, you can select the suitable partition according to the
number of video inputs.

However, the partition mode is changing according to the size of the main
interface. For example: When the size of the main interface is set as 1280*768,
the partition mode will be changed into the later one.

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2. Video Sequence

Press button to switch among all cameras in current windows in
sequence when current partition number is less than total channels .You can

press again to cancel the switch. But at first, you must confirm that

Camera Sequencing Interval in system setup has been set enable.

3. Emergency Recording Button

Press button to trigger recording of all cameras for 30 seconds even
if they have been set to record in any other modes. This function is useful in

dealing with emergency where quick response is required.

4. Image Capture

Press button to save a still image of a selected camera to local hard
disk for reviewing or printing. It will ask you for file name and save path when

you use or to capture pictures for the first time. Next time, it will
save to the previous path directly.

5. Manual Record Switch

Press button to record manually and press it again to stop manual

recording for the selected camera.

6. Information Display Panel

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This panel shows current date, current time, CPU occupancy rate, HDD
occupancy rate and description of the selected camera.

Note:

HDD occupancy rate will be changed to record days when the record data
package is full and the new data is overlaying the old. It’s shown as below.

7. Local Setup

Press button to enter Local Setup submenu.

8. Playback

Press button to enter Playback submenu to search local
video/audio data.

9. Remote Chatting

Press button to connect a remote Client or Server for a live chatting
via IP address, but first, you must be sure you have installed audio card and
Microphone in each PC.

10. Motion Setup

Set the functions of motion detection areas and add/delete mask and so
on. It will be described in details in Motion Detection Area & Cover Setup.

11. System Log

Press button to view all actions of recording as well as operations.
There are three types of logs: System log, Playback log and Network Access
log. System log keeps a record of system events such as program startup and
shutdown, changing camera setup and all operations, alarm logs or system
daily activities according to time and date. Users can search log through date
and system parameters. Playback log: All, Playback and Backup included. The

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playback log keeps the record of the playback and the backup’s log. Network
Access: All, Video Preview and Record playback included. The Net Access log
keeps the record of the Video Preview and Record playback’s log.

12. E-map

At first, start Use E-Map function in Local Setup.

Then press button to set E-map.

Click icon and then Single-Right-Click on the map, the setting

picture will appear. You can add or delete sensors and cameras that pointed by
the arrow or change the digital map.

If it is set to appear automatically, when the sensor is triggered, the map
will appear automatically and the sensor being triggered will be marked. For
triggered camera, user can Left-Double-Click it to view its video.

13. System Lock

At first, make “Local Password” in Password Setup enable.

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Then press button to prevent unauthorized user to operate system.
Press this button again, the unlock dialog box will be displayed. Input your
User ID and password then press OK to unlock it.

Default User ID is “admin”, no password.

Note:

If the DVR system is not configured as User Manage Mode, the lock
button will be unusable and allow any client’s access (even in client program,
user name and password will be useless).

14. Minimize Button

Press button to minimize the main window (or press WIN+Z on

the keyboard).

15. Exit Program

Press button to exit program.

After clicking this button, the dialog as below will be displayed. Click “OK”
to quit DVR system.

1.4.4 System Menu

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1. Backup System Parameters

Select this function to export system configurations.

2. Import System Parameters

Select this function to import system configurations.

3. Restore Default Parameters

Select this function to restore system configurations.

4. Save Cameras Color Parameters

Save the color settings for the cameras, and users can set a plan to call
this setting at a customize time. Showed as below:

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Step 1, set the Brightness / Contrast / Hue / Saturation for cameras.

Step 2, click Menu and select “Save Cameras Color Parameters”. Your
settings will be saved.

Step 3, Set the “Color Auto Adjust Time”, here you can set the software to
call the color settings saved in step 2 at a customize time. (Just adjust the time
and click “Add” to set a new plan, also you can delete the plans.)

Note: Each time you set the color and select “Save Cameras Color
Parameters”, the previous setting will be covered, then new added “Color Auto
Adjust Time” will only call the last color settings. And, when you click on the
time added in step 3, software will call the plan to show you what color setting
this plan is.

5. Backup/Video Convertor

Please refer to 4.5.2 for details.

6. DVD/CD Disc Backup Directly

Select this function to burn video data to DVD or CD. It is the same as
burn DVD/CD function in Playback.

7. Execute an External Program

Select this function to execute an external program.

8. Write Working Log

This is useful to record events that occur during the operator’s shift.

9. Open Explorer

When keyboard is locked, users can operate window resource via
explorer.

10. Open Screen Keyboard

This function allow user to use soft keyboard, you can press this bar to
open the screen keyboard. Also, in the setup interface you can Double-Click
the blank with your mouse to open this keyboard. User can close this keyboard
manually.

11. DVR Board Work Mode Setup

Each DVR system supports maximum 8 PCs 400XHC (total channel is
equal to 64) series board, so user can set its work mode via this GUI.

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The new work mode of DVR board will take effect after rebooting DVR
Server software.

12. Keyboard Shortcuts Setup

If you don’t want to use certain shortcut keys, you can disable the shortcut
functions and save the setup.

Note:

Please be sure to enable F12 before you display video in full screen mode.
Otherwise, you may not be able to return to main GUI when system is locked in
full screen mode. In this situation, you have to press Ctrl+Alt+Del to end DVR
program in task manager. If F12 is enabled, you can just press F12 to back to
main GUI.

DVR system will be locked when “Local Password” is enabled and the
“Auto Lock Time” set in Password Setup is up. However, system will not be
locked when there is video loop.

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13. Add/Del IP Camera

Press this bar to add IP devices to DVR system. For resource limitation,
you can add max 64 IP cameras, including DVS and EM DVR. Now our
software supports the following types of IP products: NV Series IP/EMDVR,
DG 42XX/50XX EMDVR, DG 80XX/90XX EMDVR, DG Series IPC, Dahua
Series IP, Sony SNC110/160, ACTi Series IP, Huviron Series IP, Mobotix M12
Series IP, ArecontVision IP, Camtron Series IPC, Axis Series IPC, Vivotek

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Series IPC and SanYo Series IPC.

Note:

All cameras support onvif can also be supported by our software. You can
add them to our software as normal IP cameras. The only difference is you
have to select ONVIF IPC as the device name.

MD series decode card work mode: Select D1 work mode or CIF work

mode to decode IP cameras when there are MD cards. Only NV series normal
IP devices and NV 40 series cards can be decoded. Megapixel cameras and
NV 42 series cards can’t be decoded. If you don’t want to decode IP devices,
you should disable this function.

Preview auto swith main/sub stream: If this function is enabled and

cameras are connected by double stream, then, it will switch to view sub
stream automaticaly when there are more than one windows. And it will switch
to main stream automatically when you maximize only one window.

Note:

You can lock “Add/Del IP Camera” function to avoid other users managing
it. For example, you can creat a new user named “user1” and diable “Add/Del
IP Camera” for it.

Then, when some one logs in with any other user ID except “admin” and
tries to enter “Add/Del IP Camera”, there will be a dialog shown as below to
confirm the user ID and password. If you input “user1” and its password, you
will not be able to enter the function. And there is no prompt.

(1). Add IP Device

I. Add IP Device (except DG series)

Press button to add an IP Camera device:

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You can add the mega pixel IP camera in the system. If you want to use

the Record sub stream function in the IP device, you should select the data
stream type Double Stream.

【Server Name】Set a name for the new IP camera device.

【IP Address】Input the address of the IP Camera, it is an IP address or IP

alias of an IP camera which is connected through DNS Server.

【Connect Port】Set the port through which connects to IP Camera.

【Login user ID/Login Pass】When the user wants to visit IP Camera and

the server has used the function of rights management, login user ID and
password will be checked. If the user has no right to visit that camera, the
connection will be cut down automatically.

【Device Name】Select the corresponding name for the IP camera. Now
our software supports the following types of IP products: NV Series IP/EMDVR,
DG 42XX/50XX EMDVR, DG 80XX/90XX EMDVR, DG Series IPC, Dahua
Series IP, Sony SNC110/160, ACTi Series IP, Huviron Series IP, Mobotix M12
Series IP, ArecontVision IP, Camtron Series IPC, Axis Series IPC, Vivotek
Series IPC and SanYo Series IPC.

【Data Stream type】Select Main-stream or sub-stream for the device, the
main-stream and sub-stream could be set in the following interface:

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【If use DNS to get IP】Select whether use DNS to get IP or not, if the
server end is the dynamic IP address, users need use DNS to get the server’s
IP.

【DNS Server IP】Set IP address of DNS server host.

【DNS Server Port】DNS server host’s port, which is used to connect DNS

software.

II. Add DG Series IP Device

Click button to add DG series IP device. Then, the

following interface will be shown:

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The interface here displays all the IP devices can be searched and
connected. When there is a new DG IP camera connected but you can’t find its
IP address in the list, please press Update IP List. Also, you can press Clear IP
List to make sure all the IP cameras those are not available at this moment will
be cleared from the list.

Note:

Because the search tool is using multicast protocol and the firewall forbids
the multicast data packet, so please close the firewall first to make sure DG
series IP devices can be found.

Check the box in front of Enable 3G to use the 3G function of DG series IP
cameras. For details, please refer to Appendix E.

Select one device from the list and click

button to add it to

the DVR system.

When you finished adding IP Camera to DVR system, it will show the
status of that camera, including Sever name, IP Address, connect port,
sequence number for IP Camera, connect status and register information.

Note:

After you add IP cameras to DVR system, they will be collocated
sequence numbers after local board cards. The sequence numbers of the IP
cameras change dynamically according to the total numbers of local board
cards and the sequences of the IP cameras that have been added to DVR
system. For example, if there are 32 channels local board cards, then you add
2 IP cameras. They will be collocated 33 and 34 as their sequence numbers.
Then if you add another board card (4 channels), the sequence numbers of
them will change to 37 and 38 dynamically.

(2). Modify IP camera

Press button to modify IP camera’s information, its interface is

same as Add IP Camera.

For the cameras connected via 3G, you can’t modify them. You have to
delete and then modify them before you add them to the DVR again.

(3). Delete IP camera device

Press button to delete a connected server. When system is in

the course of adding an IP camera device (“connecting…”indicated in connect
status column), user cannot delete that IP camera device.

(4). Decode card work mode

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then it uses the hard decoding function of decoder, so you should set the work
mode of decoder. If you don’t use hard decoding, you can’t output video of IP
Camera real-time, user can only play back recording data to TV monitor by

selecting Playback to TV Monitor function.

Note:

Each NV4002MD card can decode 2 channels D1 or 4channels CIF.

Each NV4004MD card can decode 4 channels D1 or 8 channels CIF.

When you select the work mode, system will send out corresponding
channels of IP camera from the first IP camera. It will not influence soft
decoding for cameras of local board cards. If you enable hard decoding, then
all the images of cameras will be displayed in overlay model, adversely, all the
images of cameras will be displayed in off screen model.

14. Pos/Acu Function Setup\Event Monitor

We will introduce the Pos/Acu particularly in Pos/Acu manual.

15. Multi-Channel POS Search

Click this tool bar to enter multi-channel POS search page, shown as
below.

You can search as many as four channels together in several days. After
one window is selected via clicking the black window on the right, you can
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display any camera in any window.

POS Filter

Check the box in front of the rectangle to enable POS filter. You can type
any word according to the POS text to display the lines you want. For example,
if you want to display all the lines less than 5$, then you can type “<5$” as the
filter.

Note:

If you type in “<$5”, you will get the same result as “<5$”. Besides, please
notice it will compare the absolute value only. For example, if “>5$” is typed in
as the filter, the lines with “-6.69$” will be displayed, too. If there is no “$”after
“5”, the program will display all the lines with a number more than 5, like below:

1.4.5 Motion Detection Area & Cover Setup

Press button to set motion detection area.

(1). Sound Alarm

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Enable Sound Alarm and select a value from the dop-down list for the
alarm. When the sound is detected over the value you selected, then the
software will take it as a motion alarm.

(2). Motion Link to PTZ

You can press “Link to PTZ” button to activate motion link PTZ preset
function.

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First, you should select the PTZ camera and set the preset. Then, you

should select the detected camera, which is showed as . Next,

select the detected area named Zone01 like the green frame. If you select the
number is 64, the total of the zone is 64, you can detect the number of areas is

64. When the detected area motions, the PTZ camera will link to the preset you
set.

(3). Motion Setup

If you don’t want to use the motion link PTZ preset function, you should

press again, then the motion detection is enable as below:

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By default, the entire screen is set as motion detection area where is
indicated with green border around the image. To mask a specific area, you

can click button to cancel the full screen detection border; then

Left-Single-Click and drag a rectangle to mark the area. A green rectangle will
mark the area of it. Also, you can set any other areas. Any activities in the
motion detection areas will trigger recording, depending on the reaction mode;
and alarms may be generated along with electronic map icons flashing in alert

mode. Click button to test the sensitivity of motion detection. The

sensitivity can be adjusted by dragging the slider bars below the motion
detection window.

The Sensitivity value bar is used to adjust the sensitivity of the area you
selected. The sensitivity value is smaller the motion detection is more
sensitive.

The motion value bar is used to set the minimum acreage of full screen to
trigger alarm. Its unit is percent, if the acreage of motion area exceeds the
setting value of the areas you selected, system will trigger alarm. The default
value of Sensitivity and Motion is 2 and 5%.

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Note:

Motion sensitivity value will affect the accuracy of smart search.

I. Add Mask

Press button to set the area to be shielded. If there are some

areas that you don’t want to show, you can draw those areas with mouse till
they change to be black. You can set several cover areas. Press this button
again to finish adding.

II. Delete Mask

Press

button to delete all cover areas.

1.4.6 Network Panel

This panel displays the network configuration of DVR system.

1.4.7 PTZ Control Panel

In DVR system, there are three ways to operate PTZ:
a. Panel operate;

b. Operate in video area directly;
c. Keyboard operates.

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1. PTZ Speed

Press and drag the slider bar to adjust the speed of PTZ.

2. Relays (On/Off)

Control the PTZ cameras internal relay (relay1) or the decoder’s relay
(relay 1). Used to turn on a light or control an access gate.

3. Wipers (On/Off)

If using corresponding PTZ cameras wiper to control relay, this toggles the
relay/wiper on and off.

4. Zoom + / Zoom –

Zoom function of the PTZ camera control.

5. Focus + / Focus –

Auto-focus setup of the PTZ camera overrides, adjusted to focus the
image.

6. Iris + / Iris –

Overrides the PTZ cameras auto-iris and brighten or darken the image.

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7. Speed Dome

For local board cards, press button to operate the speed

dome, including Preset Setup, Preset Call and Preset Tour as below:

For IP camera, the preset should be set remotely in IP Camera Setup. But
you can also use Preset Call and Preset Tour function here after you set them
remotely.

(1). Preset Setup

In this screen you can set the preset position of analogue cameras (To IP
cameras, you have to set their preset in IP camera setup):

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I. Add/Delete Preset

In this section you can set the preset name with its sequence number,
then you can press / button to add/delete a preset, when you want to
modify the preset you can press button to confirm your modification. For
different cameras, there are different commands to open and set, so you can
choose the call mode in the drop-list for different cameras.

II. Home Position

You can set a home position for the PTZ. When there are no PTZ actions
after the set time system will call the PTZ back to the home position.

III. Tour Preset

In this section you can set the tour schedule. Firstly, you should choose a
group, and then set the track for this schedule. You can press

/ button to
add/delete a preset to it. After you choose the preset name you can set the
time to keep on.

(2). Preset Call

When you select this function, system will show all the preset names you

set in Preset Setup menu. You can click one to move to it.

(3). Preset Tour

When you select this function, system will show the entire tour groups you

set in Preset Setup menu. You can click one to execute it.

If the views are NV series PTZ&IP camera and mega pixel IP camera,

when you call preset 95, you can see:

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When you enter the menu, you can control it by , using up,

down, left and right buttons. Press IRIS- to enter the sub
menu. When you use up or down to move to “exit”, press IRIS- to exit the

menu.

For details, please refer to Chapter 4 in Network_Camera_Menu for

details.

8. Control PTZ via Video Window

Press and drag the mouse to the corresponding area can control the PTZ

when there is a decoder.

1.4.8 Color and Audio Adjustment

① Press the first button and drag it to adjust the brightness of the image

that you selected, and you can resume its default value by pressing .

②Press the second button and drag it to adjust the contrast of the image

that you selected and you can resume its default value by pressing .

③Press the third button and drag it to adjust the hue of the image that you

selected, and you can resume its default value by pressing

④Press the fourth button and drag it to adjust the saturation of the image

that you selected, and you can resume its default value by pressing .

⑤Press the fifth button to switch sound of the audio that related to the

image you selected and drag the bar to adjust the volume, and you can

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resume its default value by pressing .

Copy Color To: By pressing the button to copy the color

and audio adjustment in this camera to the other.

1.4.9 Matrix & Display

This panel includes matrix group and display group. Each group includes
16 numeric buttons; each button denotes one type of matrix or display. This will
be described in System Setup.

1.4.10 DI/DO Control

1. DI Control

Press number button to check sensor all time forcibly even though user
didn’t set check sensor in Sensor Setup. The channel of DI and DO is
determined by the setup of DI/DO device you set in System Setup. The status
of DI has three types:

Input channel 3 doesn’t check sensor forcibly.

Input channel 2 checks sensor forcibly.

Input channel 1 has an alarm inputting.

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sensor forcibly. Press the button again to stop checking all the time, then
system checks sensor according to Sensor Setup. When there is an alarm, the
corresponding button will show the alarm with green.

Note:

When you select NV 7632 and the combination is not the standard
configuration (combination of NV 7608 and NV 7616 or NV 7608: total DI is
less than 32), some ports are not available according to the setting of decoder
address. For example: user selects NV 7632 and the combination is NV 7608
(decoder address is 1) and NV 7616 (decoder address is 2), then the DI ports
9 to 16 are not available, so that the status indication is not available.

2. DO Control

Press number to open/close alarm device relay switch manually. The
status of DO has two types:

Output channel 2 is close.

Output channel 1 is open.

When there is no alarm triggered out, user can press the number button to
output alarm forcibly and the button will show it with green. Press it again, the
output will be closed.

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Chapter2 Local Setup

The DVR System Configuration and Setup include 7 types of
configurations:

System Setup Camera Setup

Sensor Setup PTZ & Linkage Setup

Email & SMS Setup Matrix & Display Setup

Password Setup

2.1 System Setup

2.1.1 System Setup

【Number of Channels】Display total channels of local board card, the

number of IP Camera is not included. For IP Camera, you should set it
remotely in IP Camera Setup.

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【Sensor Inputs(DI)】Display the number of sensors (DI). The sensor

input of both analog and IP cameras included.

【Sensor outputs(DO)】Display the number of alarms(DO). The sensor

output of both analog and IP cameras included.

【Audio Monitoring】Select real-time monitoring audio or not.

【Use E-Map】Select use Electron Map or not.

【Camera Sequencing Interval】Set auto-split changing interval time. If

you select”—“, you can’t Press button to switch among all playing
cameras in current windows in sequence even when the current partition

number is less than the total channels.

【DI/DO Port】Select sensor/alarm driver connecting port, it must be

different from PTZ Port. If you do not use alarm input, you can close this
function. To avoid conflicting with the PTZ port, you should set and use
different ports for these two functions.

【Keyboard Shield】When it is enable, functions of some system keys

will be disabled.

【Save Log for() Days】Log save days(max 100 days).

【DI/DO Device】Select receive alarm device type. When you change the

type of alarm device, you should reboot the system to update the device
information in DI/DO Control Panel.

Note:

Currently, system supports following NV serials DI/DO devices: NV7608,
NV7609, NV7616, NV7616B, NV7632 and NV7632B. NV7632 includes two
NV7616 (or combination of NV 7608 and NV 7616), and NV7632B includes
two NV7616B. When you select these two selections you must set their
decoder address as 1 and 2, and they should be connected with PC through
RS 485 converter after they connected parallel with each other.

【Alarm Beep】Select disable or enable from drop-down list. If select

“enable”, when there is an alarm, system will make beep voice.

【Alarm camera popup interval】Set the interval of alarm camera, if you

select“—”,you can’t select function

“Start Alarm Popup”.

【POS Function】Set the POS function disable or not. The function is

available to both local board card camera and IP camera now. For details,
please refer to our POS manual.

【Date Format】Select the way to display date. It decides the date display

mode of DVR system, including the information panel on the main screen, the
date panel of the playback window and OSD date in video.

【Default Camera type】Set the default mode of video from PAL and

NTSC, it is available when the input video is lost and for the decoder to
playback local video to TV Wall.

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【ACU Function】Set the ACU function disable or not

【Time Format】Select time format from the drop-list. After you change

the format it will affect the OSD format, information in information display panel
and file lists.

【Grab picture save to 】Select the path to save the captured pictures.

【Preview Split Mode】Select window split mode for DVR between

“Normal Mode” and “Wide Screen”. You should re-select the view window
number to refresh the window split mode status.

【HS Card 4CIF Mode 】Select the HS Card 4CIF Mode function disable

or enable.

【Auto Upgrade】Select the Auto Upgrade disable or enable, if you select

enable ,you should enter the Auto Upgrade Setup to set the Server IP ,Port
and the Auto Upgrade Date.

【Language】Select one kind of language to use. Generally speaking,

there is “English” only. But we can add some other kinds of language
according to your requirement.

【Display Resolution】Select display resolution among Auto, 1024*768,

1280*768, 1280*1024, 1366*768, 1440*900, 1600*900, 1680*1050 and

1920*1080. When Auto is selected, the software will adjust its display

resolution according to the resolution of desktop. When the desktop resolution
is any of the resolution mentioned above, it will be displayed as that resolution.
If it’s not any of them, the software will select the closest one. For example,

when the desktop resolution is set as 1280*960 and Auto is selected, then,

DVR will be displayed as 1280*768. It will take effect after the software is
restarted.

【Dual Monitor Function】 Select to disable or enable dual monitor

function.

Note:

If you want to use dual monitor, you have to make sure the hardware and
the system support the dual monitor first. When there are more than two
monitors connected and all the settings are done, the software can realize
dual-monitor function automatically after you enabled this function. For more
details about dual-monitor, please refer to Dual Monitor User Manual.

2.1.2 Network Setup

【Remote Connection】Select using network or not. If select “disable”, it

will not permit any client connect this DVR system.

【Remote Connect Port】Select remote connection port for Clients.

【Remote buffer Priority】Select among Smooth, Normal and Realtime.

“Smooth” demands there is large buffer in the system. “Realtime” demands
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sent through the network.

【PDA Connection】Select whether allow PDA connect to DVR system. If

select “disable”, it will not permit any PDA devices to connect with this DVR
system.

【PDA Connect Port】Select remote connection port for PDA device.

【Web Server Port】The IE Client connecting port. Default value is 80 for

http access; but for some windows XP edition, it shields port 80. In this case,
user should modify this port to other port, such as 1280. After that, user must
reboot DVR server, then user can access DVR server via IE Client like this:
http://IP: 1280 (IP can be a static IP or dynamic domain name).

【Use DNS】Select use DNS or not, supporting dynamic IP.

【Local Host Name】Input the name description for DNS Server

identification.

【DNS Server IP】DNS server host IP.
【DNS Server Port】DNS server host port ,it is used to connect to

DNS server.

【Interval Connection Time】Set the interval time to connect to

DNS automatically.

DNS server work mode:

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1. If your DVR is dynamic IP, you should set your DVR system as below:

2. DNS server will get domain name and current IP of your DVR, NVR Client can connect

to DVR server through this domain name.

3. NVR Clients get IP of DVR through DNS server according to its domain.

4. NVR Clients visit DVR through the IP that get from DNS server.

【Permit Max Connect Video Num】The maximum number of video that

permit the client to connect to the DVR server. The number can be selected
according to the network bandwidth. The maximum is 256. For example: one
DVR server owns 2Mbit network bandwidth, and all video channels are
compressed basing on CIF resolution (max data bit rate is 500Kb).To get better
video effect, we can set 4 as the permitted max connect video number.

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2.1.3 Boot Setup

【Exit to Windows】User can exit program and back to windows desktop.

【Exit and Shutdown】User can exit program and shut down computer.

【 Auto Shut Down 】 Set the time to shut down the computer

automatically.

【Auto Reboot Date(Mon-Sun)】Select auto reboot date.

【Reboot at】Set auto-reboot time.

2.2 Camera Setup

2.2.1 Camera Setup

【Selected Camera】To set the parameters for a camera, select the
camera from the drop-down list. The cameras you can select are only the

cameras of the local board cards, IP Cameras are not included. For IP Camera,
you should set it remotely in IP Camera Setup.

【Camera Description】Input the description for easy identification. OSD

text supports any languages. You can input any word in any language in the
camera description edit blank, and then press the button on the right to set
proper color (it does not support white) as below:

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Note:

Because of the width limitation, you’d better input the characters within
eight. If you input the full characters (20 characters) in the blank, you should
select the characters and delete them;

Because of the properties limitation, you‘d better not use “\” “:” “/” in
camera description.

You have to check the box in front of Text OSD Advanced Setup so that
you can input any word in any language.

【Camera Type】Select camera type from drop-down list. Users can

choose from PAL and NTSC.

【Camera】Enable or disable the selected camera.

Note:

For example, when there are 16 channels connected and you disabled
camera 2, then camera 2 to 16 are disabled.

【Sub Stream Frame Rate(fps)】Set the frame rate of the Sub Stream.

【Bit Rate】Set recording mode. Variable Bit Rate (VBR) or Constant Bit

Rate (CBR) Recording.

VBR allows each frame to be recorded at a dynamic bit rate depending on

the image complexity, activity and color.

CBR allows each frame to be recorded at a fixed bit rate, regardless of the

scene activity. In many cases, this limits detail (resolution). The benefit of CBR
is its ability to accurately estimate the total video capacity.

【Frame Rate(fps)】Set the recording rate for selected camera. For

Frames per Second (fps), the frame rate should be from 1 to 30 fps. While
image size is set “704*576”, the frame rate should be set around 1 to 15
frames.

【SubStream Image size】Select image resolution of the Sub Stream.
When you set the【Image Size】as 4CIF(704*576), this configuration is not

available for HC series cards.

【Image Quality】Set the quality of the image to be recorded. Select from

Poorest, Poor, Medium, Very good and Best.

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Click this button to make advanced setup for video quality, you can

set I B P frame and maximum bit rate.

Note:

If you are not familiar with those features, we advise you not to revise
them.

Recommend setup:

For CIF:

Image I frame P frame B frame Max bps

Best 12 12 17 900000

Good 15 15 20 750000

Medium 18 18 23 600000

Low 21 21 26 450000

Lowest 24 24 29 300000

For DCIF:

Maxbps = (Maxbps/3)*5

Note:

Maxbps is the CIF’s value with the same configuration (I P B)

For D1:

Maxbps = (Maxbps/3)*8

Note:

Maxbps is the CIF’s value with the same configuration (I P B)

【Alarm Adjust fps】Select enable from 1 to 30 or disable, If select

“enable”, when alarm occurred, the camera will record with real-time frame

rate(25fps or 30fps) ,even though 【Frame Rate(fps)】 has been set other

values(eg:5fps).

【SubStream Quality】Set the image quality of the clients to be recorded

from Poorest, Poor, Medium, Very good and Best.

Click this button, users can make advanced setup for video quality of

client end, also can setup I B P frame and adjust maximum bit rate according

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to the network bandwidth.

【Image Size】Set the resolution for local record. There is an item

“704*576(12fps)”, each channel can be set “704*576”, but not real time,
system will select frame rate automatically around 12-15fps. To get best effect,
you should set the resolution of local record according to your CPU
configuration. There is a referenced configuration sample as below:

Computer configuration:

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz
Motherboard: ECS 848P-A

Graphic Card: ATI 9550 128MB,

Memory: 512MB

HDD: 120G (IDE)

Recommended resolution configuration for different channels:

DVR Board

Channels

Recommended

Resolution

Remark

64 CIF

Continuous
recording is not
recommended

48 CIF

DCIF

40

CIF

DCIF

32

CIF

DCIF

24

CIF

4CIF

DCIF

Less or Equal

to16

CIF

【OSD Date】Select whether display the OSD date on the screen or not.

When you select “Not”, the date will not display on the screen of corresponding

channel.

【Masking Bitmap File】Watermark function ,the logo picture must be

edited no more than 128*128 pixels file size, both the length and width should
be multiples of 16, and saved as bmp format.

【Stream Type】Select whether program record audio data or not. This

setting is not available for IP Cameras, for stream type of IP Camera; you
should set it remotely in IP Camera Setup.

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【OSD Contrast】Set OSD displaying brightness & position. The “auto”

item in OSD Contrast’s drop-down list will make OSD suit the background’s
color automatically.

【Copy Setup to】Set other cameras with the same setup.

Note:

1) When there are no video in some windows, an alarm will appear (beep
to tell you some video information is missing). Set the camera with no
picture disabled and the alarm will disappear. When you want to use
them later, set as enabled again;

The unit of the swap file should be MB. The range is from 2 to 50;

Set the position and contrast of the date shown on the screen. Sometimes
the date cannot be clearly seen for its color is similar with the background. You
can change its position or color when this happens;

Image size is the format used when recording. Remote image size is the
format used when these images are transmitted to client sides;

Remote Frame Rate, Remote image size and Remote Quality are the
parameters of the client side. ①When the server’s image size is set as
“704*576(12fps)” and you are using NV40XXHC series cards, the three items
are not available, and client’s parameters will be the same with server. ②
When the server’s resolution is set as others (except “704*576(12fps)”) and
Remote image size is set as “Same as Rec”, Remote frame rate (fps) and
Remote Quality are not available either. The client’s parameters will be the
same with server;

Variable digital rate table:

Image quality record environment occupied disk space (/com/hour)

low action, indoor about 45Mb

Poorest

high action, road about 95Mb

low action, indoor about 70Mb

medium

high action, road about 180Mb

low action, indoor about 160Mb

best

high action, road about 320Mb

Invariable digital rate can’t improve image quality but it is helpful for
calculating disk space. Variable digital rate recording is recommended.

2.2.2 Group Setup

Note:

If you set a camera into several groups, only the last setup is available.

【Selected Group】Select group number.

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【Record sub stream】Select the record sub stream enable or not, if you
select enable, you can view the sub stream in the NVR client Re-search.

The sub stream is main effect in searching the record file in client’s
re-search by the narrow bandwidth.

【Selected Cameras】Select the cameras that the work mode of which

are the same in a group. Cameras include local board cards and IP modules.

【Pre-Event Record】Select the start time of record when there is an

alarm. When DVR system is in Motion Detect mode or Sensor Detect mode, it
can record video before the alarm is trigged.

【Post Record Time】Select the end time of record when there is an

alarm. When the system is in Motion Detect mode or Sensor Detect mode, it
can record video after the alarm ended.

【Record Days】This section allows users to determine how long the

record data of each camera should be kept in the system. The maximum
duration for on-line storage is 120 days. Users can select an exact number of
days, or select “auto” mode. If select “auto”, system will auto-delete the
recorded data of the earliest days when there is no enough space.

Note:

If there is no enough space of HDD, system will delete the record data
according to the length of saving time of each camera. E.g.: there are four
cameras, the 1st camera is set to say for 2 days, the 2nd camera saves for 5
days, the 3rd camera saves for 10 days, and the 4th camera is set “auto” mode.
When the space is enough, the 4 cameras’ record data will be saved in HDD.
When there is no enough space, system will delete data automatically. If the 4th
camera’s record data has been saved more than 10days, system will delete
the 4th camera’s data. If the 4th camera’s record data has been saved less than
10 days, but the 3

rd

camera’s data is more than 10 days, system will delete the
3rd camera’s data. So, even if you set the 3rd camera’s record data to be saved
for 10 days, the data that is saved less than 10 days become possible. System
will delete the record data from the earliest date.

Recording Schedule Setup (cameras of local board cards and IP

Cameras setting)

Tips:

One block of pane means half an hour. Firstly, click record mode

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icon , then click schedule diagram, hold down the mouse and move it

to select large area (Drag & Drop).

1. Normal Record (green): DVR system always record video (e.g. Sun.);

2. Sensor Record (red): DVR system begins to record video only when

there are POS or ACU actions(e.g. Monday);

Note:

The time setup must be corresponding with Check Alarm setups in Sensor

setup otherwise it can’t work properly.

3. Motion Record (Blue): DVR system begins to record video only when

it detects moving object (e.g. Tuesday.);

4. Motion or Sensor Record (yellow): Combine with above 2 and 3

function (e.g. Wednesday);

5. Normal & Motion Record (light blue): DVR system records in motion

detection record when it detects moving object and in normal record

when there is no motion (e.g. Thursday);

6. Not Record (gray): DVR System records no video (e.g. Friday and

Saturday).

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2.3 Sensor Setup

2.3.1 Sensor Setup

【Select Sensor】Select the sensor from the drop-down list in order to set

the parameters of it.

【Sensor】Select this sensor port to use or not.
【Sensor Position】Enter the description for easy identification.
【Activate PTZ Preset】Select linkage of Speed Dome preset number.

Speed Dome will move to this preset number automatically when there is an
alarm. (Speed Dome installation needed).

【Play Alarm sound】Select a sound of .wav for a sensor, if there is an

alarm, the sound file will be played.

【Link to PTZ】Select a camera that is related to this sensor alarm.
【DO Port】Select a DO port that is related to this sensor alarm. You can

set sensor alarm for single sinsor via the Sensor and DO Port here.

【DO Port Name】Fill in the description for the DO port.

2.3.2 Group Setup

Sensor group setup is very similar to the group setup of camera recording.

【Selected Group】Select group number. You can set sensor alarm for a

group here.

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【Sensor Type】Select NC or NO alarm type.
【Alarm Write log】Select write alarm log or not when there is an alarm.
【Alarm Action After It Times-Out】Select system alarm linkage mode

when an alarm stops. “Stop Immediately” means the system stops alarm
immediately after the alarm driver stops an alarm. “Do Not Stop” means the
system doesn’t stop alarm after the alarm driver stops an alarm. “Wait” means
the system will stop alarm at your setting time after the alarm driver stops an
alarm.

【Send email】Set the send email alarm function disable or enable when

the sensor test abnormally.

【Send SMS】Set the send SMS alarm function disable or enable when

the sensor test abnormally, but you should have a GSM Modem.

【Sensor input】Add sensor to a selected group.
【Start recording cameras】Set cameras that to be related to this sensor

group. They will start recording and connect remote network client

automatically when there is an alarm. The cameras just include the cameras of

local board cards; IP Cameras are not included. For IP Camera, you should set
it remotely in IP Camera Setup.

【Trigger Output Relays】Add alarm devices (alarm out port) to this

group such as siren, light. All connecting devices will send alarm message
when there is an alarm.

Schedule Setup (Example for below figure)

1. Check Alarm (Red): DVR System responds with sensor during this

time. (00:30 to 12:00 from Sun. to Sat.);

2. Not Check (gray): DVR System responds with no sensor alarm during

this time.

Note:

If you set a camera in several groups, only the last setup is available.

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2.4 PTZ & Linkage Setup

2.4.1 PTZ Protocol Setup

【Selected Camera】Select the camera from the drop-down list to set the

parameters. The cameras just include the cameras of local board cards; IP

Cameras are not included. For IP Camera, you should set it remotely in IP
Camera setup.

【PTZ Port】Select PTZ connecting port, when you do not use PTZ port,

please choose “------”.

【DVR Keyboard COM Port】Select a connecting port for DVR keyboard.

If you have chosen COM1 for DI/DO Port, and you choose COM1 again for
DVR keyboard, then, DI/DO Port will be changed to another port. If you want to

know more details for DVR keyboard, please refer to DVR/NVR Keyboard
Control Manual.

【PTZ Protocol】Select the PTZ protocol for the PTZ camera.
【PTZ Address】Set the camera ID number of the PTZ camera being

controlled.

Note:

The PTZ camera has a dipswitch to set the PTZ address. The PTZ

camera ID number must be matched with the number of this dipswitch.

【PTZ Baud rate】Select PTZ Baud rate for the PTZ camera.
【PTZ Position】Select the installation mode of the PTZ according to its

installation mode.

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Note:

1) PTZ position will influence PTZ control. E.g.: if you set it as obverse
and press left, then it will turn left. If you set it as inverse and press left,
then it will turn right;

If there is (H) after the PTZ protocol, it has the high speed of Preset

function. If there is no (H), it only has ordinary functions;

The PTZ address will be sent as a message option. Take care that some

addresses begin from 0. That is to say，when the address number is 1, the real
address is 0. So we must set it according to their relations.

2.4.2 Motion Detection Relay

【DO Port】【DO Port Name】Select a DO port and set its name to identify

the various DO port. It will be shown as a tip when the mouse moves closely or
above the DO button in DVR Server or NVR Client.

【Camera Alarm Detected in】Select camera to be set from drop down

list.

【Alarm Write Log】Select write alarm log or not when there is an alarm

triggered. You can set the interval to write log as 5s, 10s, 30s, 1min, 2min or
3min to enable writing log when there is alarm triggered.

【Send Alarm to client】Select sending alarm to network clients or not.

【Motion Alarm Sound 】 Press button to select a “.wav” sound file

for a motion alarm. If there is a motion alarm, the sound file will be played. Also,

you can test it by pressing button.

【Video Loss Alarm Sound】Press

button to select a “.wav” sound

file for a video loss alarm. If there is a video loss alarm, the sound file will be

played. Also, you can test it by pressing

button.

【Trigger DO Output】Select which DO ports will be triggered by above

camera alarms.

【Motion Send Email】Set sending Email disable or enable when there is

mtion alarm triggered. You can set the interval to send an email as 5s, 10s, 30s,
1min, 2min or 3min to enable sending email.

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【Motion Send SMS】Set sending SMS disable or enable when there is

motion alarm triggered. You can set the interval to send a SMS as 5s, 10s, 30s,
1min, 2min or 3min to enable sending SMS.

【Video Loss Send Email】Set sending Email disable or enable when

video loss.

【Video Loss Send SMS】Set sending SMS disable or enable when

video loss.

Schedule Setup

1. Motion & Video Loss (Red): DVR System responds with Motion
Detection and Video Loss alarm in specified time;

2. Motion Alarm (Blue): DVR System only responds with Motion
Detection alarm in specified time;

3. Video Loss (Yellow): DVR System only responds with Video Loss
alarm in specified time;

4. Not Check (gray): DVR System doesn’t respond with any alarms in
specified time.

Note:

Check Alarm Setup (including Motion & Video Loss, Motion Alarm and
Video Loss) does not take affection to Motion Detect Record. It is only alarm
setup. It takes affection to motion detect alarm out and motion detect alarm to
network.

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2.5 E-mail & SMS Setup

Press button to enter E-Mail setup:

Note:

Before you set the E-mail setup, you should pay attention to several points
as below:

The alarm that triggers E-mail sending includes two types:
Camera-related alarms (Motion detection alarm & Video loss alarm) and
Sensor-related alarms.

For Camera-related alarms, you should set Motion Detection Area &

Cover Setup and check alarm in Motion Detection Relay. For Sensor-related

alarms, you should set to check sensor and select cameras to be triggered in

Sensor Setup.

When you enable system capture image as attachment of E-mail, the
system will capture a still picture of the alarm camera to be sent as an
attachment of the E-mail.

User can modify GSM modem's communicate parameters manually in
C:\Program Files\DVR Server\SMS_LIB as bellow:

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After you insert the GSM MODEM, Firstly, you should install the driver.

When the driver is installed, the interface as below will be displayed:

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2.5.1 Email Setup

【SMPT Server】SMTP server address, e.g.: mail.jstDVR.com,

【SMPT Port】SMTP listen TCP’s port for connect request.

【Auth. Type】Logon mailbox, operator should select SMTP authentic

type. Or select “simple login”.

【Login User ID】Mailbox’s ID.

【Login Pass】Mailbox’s password.

【Send To】Set the address of receiver.

【Copy To 】Set another address of receiver.

【Sender Email】Enter email address of sender. It should be the same

with Login User ID.

【Email Title】Enter title of the E-Mail to be sent.

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【Email Screenshot As Attachment】When there is an alarm, the

system will grab a picture, operator can select whether send the picture as an
attachment of the E-mail.

When setup is finished, user can press to test the function.

2.5.2 SMS Setup

【SMS Device】Set SMS send mode, you can select the SMS pdu mode

or the SMS text mode.

【SMS Use Com Port】Set the SMS Use Com Port to which the device

connects.

【DVR Host Name】Set a name to sign the DVR.

【Mobile number 1】【Mobile number 2】【Mobile number 3】Set the

mobile numbers to receive the SMS. SMS can be sent to the mobile numbers.

When setup is finished, user can press to test the function.

If the DVR software reboot abnormally, the system will send the SMS to the
mobile number automatically.

Note:

The mobile number should be made up of the international code and
mobile phone number. E.g.: In China, the mobile number is “86130****1234”.

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2.6.1 Matrix Setup

【Matrix Group】System operator can set groups of video images to be

sent out through matrix decode card, each group has different display modes.
Up to 16 groups you can set.

【Video Out Port】Select the output port of Matrix card that you want to
set, the total number of channels is decided by Matrix Decode card.

【Video Out Standard 】Set Matrix video out standard, you can select PAL

or NTSC.

【 Video View Mode】 Select video output display mode, there are

1split

, 2 splits ,4 splits , 9 splits ,13 splits and 16 splits .

【Video Window】【Display Video Camera in window】After selecting

video split mode, there will be corresponding display video window, select one
camera or several cameras to show in a window. The Video cameras you can
select are cameras of the local board cards and IP Cameras. For cameras of
local board cards, system uses soft decoding to play to TV Wall, total channels
of them are not influenced by decoding channels. For IP cameras, system
uses hard decoding; total channels of them are influenced by decoding
channels. For different work modes (set in

IP Camera List), the channels you

can use are different, the available certain channels must be the first certain
channels. If you disable hard decoding by setting in IP Camera list, you can’t
output real-time videos of IP cameras to TV Wall.

【Video Switch Interval(sec)】Set interval that each window shows

cameras circularly when there are more than one camera in it.

Note:

1. One camera is only shown in one window once. But you can show

one camera in 2 windows through switching the main camera channel
and sub camera channel. Also, you can show several cameras in one

window after you set the “Video Switch Interval”.

2. MD card can only decode the data of 40 series card and some IP
cameras. When it is used to decode 42 series card or Mega IP
cameras, there will be no data output.

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2.6.2 Matrix Setup for DG42xxHF cards

Our new series DG42xxHF cards support to output video from the card
itself to a TV monitor, the setup for this function is samilar to the settings for NV
series Matrix cards.

【Matrix Group】System operator can set groups of video images to be

sent out through the TV output port of DG42xxHF card, each group has
different display modes. Up to 16 groups you can set.

【Video Out Port】Select the output port of DG42xxHF card that you want
to set, only one port is available for each DG42xxHF card.

【Video Out Standard 】Set Matrix video out standard, you can select PAL

or NTSC.

【 Video View Mode】 Select video output display mode, there are

1split , 4 splits and 16 splits are supported by DG42xxHF cards,
others are not available.

【Video Window】【Display Video Camera in window】After selecting

video split mode, there will be corresponding display video window, select one
camera or several cameras to show in a window. The Video cameras you can
select are from the same card of the TV output port, others are invisible.

【Video Switch Interval(sec)】Set interval that each window shows

cameras sequencely when there are more than one camera in it.

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Note:

One camera can only be shown in one window once. Also, you can show
several cameras in one window after you set the “Video Switch Interval”.

2.6.3 VGA/HDMI Output Setup for DG4204HD

card & VGA Output Setup for DG42xxHF
cards.

Our new DG4204HD card support VGA or HDMI output, the setting is as
below:

Here you can select to output 1/4 split mode, then select to display
camera in corresponding output window. Tour function is supported. Other
related operation is similar to the Matrix settings for DG42xxHF cards.

New version software supports the VGA output for DG42xxHF cards, the
settings are samilar to the Matrix settings. If you find there is frame loss for
recording while doing VGA output, please adjust the resolution/image
quality/frame rate properly.

2.6.4 Display Setup

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【Pre-setup Display Group】System operator can set groups of cameras

to be displayed for fast preview, including its display mode and cameras. Up to
16 groups can be set.

【Software Start Display Group】Select to display the default order or

the order you set in one group. You can select any group you set from the drop
down list. After the settings, the system will display the group you selected
when restart the next time.

Note:

If this function is disabled, the system will display SetGroup1 after reboot.
So, it’s suggested not to change the display order of SetGroup1. User should
change the display order from SetGroup2.

【Video View Mode】Set the split mode, the split mode is same as main

window’s display split mode. There are1, 4,9,13,16,20,25,28,33,36,40,49 and
64 partition modes.

【Video Window】【Display Camera in the window】After video split

mode is set, there will be corresponding windows in the drop down list. Select
one camera among 1-64 to be shown in a selected window from the list.

Note:

One camera can only be shown in one window once. However, each
camera can be displayed in any window. E.g.: Camera 1 is displayed in
window1, and camera 2 is displayed in window2 at present. If you display
camera 1 in window 2, then, camera 2 will be displayed in window 1
automatically.

【Video Image Display】Select between YES or NO to display the

camera in current window or not. You can also use Close/Open Image Display
in context menu.

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2.7 Password Setup

2.7.1 User Information

【Local Password】Select “Enable” to enable User Manage mode for

local PC DVR, and activate the lock button in main window. Only
authorized user can log into Netvision System at User Manage Mode.

【Auto lock time】Select a time to enable system to lock automatically

when there are no actions during this time.

【Network Password】Select “Enable” to enable User Manage mode for

Client. When you enable this function, client must pass the authentication in
order it can connect with PC DVR.

【User Name】Input new User ID in this box when add a new user to

system.

【Auth. Level】Select user type. Only Manager can enter User Manage

Window and has the right of user management.

【Password】Set new user’s or a selected user’s password. The length of

the password should be no more than 12.

【Password Confirm】Confirm password again.

【Note】Input your description of this user.

【New User】Press button to edit the user you want to add in
the 【 User Name 】 Blank. Input User Name and select Auth. Level

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(Administrator or Operator) and then click Add to add a new user.

Note:

1. Only Administrator has the right to add or delete a user. However,
Administrator has no right to manage the password of one user.

2. Password is null even Administrator has set a password for the user.
When user login in the system the first time, he can type in a
password as he like. Then, system will pop a message to ask him
whether he wants the system to remember the password for next login.
If he clicked YES, then, he has to login with the same password
everytime he logins later. If he clicked NO, then, he can still login with
any password or no password next time until he clicked YES.

3. There is no way to restore but delete the user if user forgets his
password.

【Add User】Up to15 users can be added to system except Admin. Click

icon to add new user you edited to user list.

【Modify User】Select a user from user list, then click button to

modify it.

【Delete User】Select a user from user list, then click button to

delete it.

2.7.2 User Right Setup

【Select setup items】Select an item from the drop-list and then choose

the cameras for the users. These items include【Camera View Right】,

【Camera Playback Right】,【Camera Audio Right】,【PTZ Control Right】.

【Camera View Right】Select cameras can be viewed by the user you are

setting. The cameras you can select include the cameras of local board cards
and IP Cameras. By default, every user is granted to access all live images. To
deny access, you can click the desired cameras button and the color will
change from blue to gray (by default, user “admin” is super user, you can’t
modify its rights, it has entries rights).

【Camera Playback Right】Select the cameras can be play backed by the

user you are setting. The cameras you can select include the cameras of local
board cards and IP Cameras. By default, every user is granted to playback
video data of all cameras. To deny access, you can click the desired camera
button and the color will change from blue to gray.

【Camera Audio Right】Select cameras whose audio can be heard by the

user you are setting. The cameras you can select include the cameras of local

board cards and IP Cameras. By default, every user is granted to check audio

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of all cameras. To deny access, you can click the desired camera button and
the color will change from blue to gray.

【PTZ Control Right 】 Select the cameras that related PTZ can be

controlled by the user you are setting. The cameras you can select include the
cameras of local board cards and IP Cameras.

【User Access Right】Select operational tasks, granting or denying rights.

Operational tasks are normally reserved for administrative, privileged accounts.
Operators are rarely granted rights to adjust camera color, exit program,
explore files etc.

When manager doesn’t want some operators to manage disk or backup
data locally, he should not check the two rights for those users. For example,
“admin” doesn’t want “user” to own the two rights, he should select “user” first,
and click “Modify”, and then, check the “V” in front of “Disk Management” and
“Local Backup”.

【Setup Right】

Select setup rights to grant or deny user privileges.

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Chapter3 IP Camera Setup

Note:

For IP camera setup, its alarm and related setup is only available when
you set remotely. The local setup of PC DVR is not available for IP Cameras

except Recording Schedule in Camera Setup.

The remote setup interface of NV Series IP cameras is as below:

For DG Series EM-DVR, the interfaces are not exactly the same as NV

Series. Remote setup for DG Series EM-DVR includes Server, Channel,
Record, PTZ, Sensor, Alarm and User. But the ways of set are nearly the

same. For details, please refer to our DG Series EM-DVR manual.

For DG Series IPC, please refer to our DG Series IPC user manual.

For other series IP cameras, such as Sony SNC110/160, ACTi Series IP,
Huviron Series IP, Mobotix M12 Series IP, ArecontVision IP, Camtron Series
IPC and Axis Series IPC, you will enter the IE interface automatically when you
press “IP Camera Setup”. You have to install ActiveX too.

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Remote Setup Interface of Axis IP Camera

3.1 Functional Buttons

There are 5 buttons in each page. They are Upgrade, Restart, Time
adjustment, Save and Exit.

System can upgrade to the server remotely. Click this button,

and select the right file.

Some settings will come into effect only after device reboots.

Adjust date and time of DVS or EMDVR. The new date and

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time will be consistent with DVR server computer.

After setup is finished, click this button to save the setup.

Exit setup.

Remote setup for NV Series IP camera or DVS includes Server, Channel,
PTZ, Sensor and Alarm.

3.2 Server Setup

Press button to set server parameters remotely:

In the server window, some blanks’ background are gray. Those
parameters are read from foreside server, you can’t modify them. Other blanks
whose background is white, you can set them remotely.

【Server Name】Enter the name description for easy identification. The

name delegates the foreside server. If use DNS to get IP, the name will be
used.

【IP configuration and related】

【Server IP】

These are network configurations; you can set
LAN or Internet IP according to your need.

【Listen Port】

【Subnet Mask】

【Net Gate】

【Net Cable Type】

【Connection configuration and related parameter】

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【If use PPPOE】

If system uses PPPOE to connect with web,
please select it and input the PPPOE login
ID and password.

【PPPOE Login Name】

【PPPOE Login Pass】

【User Pass】Set the password of DVS remotely, after that operation you

should change the Login Pass to corresponding value in Add / Modify server.
Otherwise, you can’t connect the DVS correctly.

【DNS Server IP】If use DNS, input the DNS host IP address.

【Remote manage】

Set the IP address and port of host
server who will receive the message
upload from foreside server

【Remote manage IP】

【Remote manage port】

【Format SD card】When there is a SD card in your IP camera, there will

be a Format button. So that you can format SD card remotely.

3.3 Channel Setup

Press button to set channel parameters.

This section contains the parameters to designate a name for every
camera connected, to enable or disable show LOGO and OSD, and to set
display type of OSD & LOGO as well as record resolution, record type, record
quality and frame rate, etc.

【Camera NO.】Select the camera to be set from the drop- list.

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【Camera Name】Enter a name description for easy identification.

【Frame Rate】Select the record rate of camera from drop-list.

【Main Stream】【Sub Stream】Select Main Stream or Sub Stream for the

current cameras.

【Resolution】Set the resolution at which the video files will be recorded.

Choices are DCIF, CIF, QCIF, 2CIF and 4CIF. The higher the resolution is, the
more disk space needed.

【Stream Type】Select video and audio or only video record. If you want

to preview and record audio, please connect a sound pick-up to your IP
camera. Besides, you have to single-right-click the camera name in IE to open
sound.

【Image】Set the quality of the image to be recorded. Select from worst,

worse, normal, good and best.

【Bit Rate Type】Select bit rate type from Variable Bit Rate (VBR) and

Fixed Bit Rate (FBR) record:

VBR range= Poorest, Poor, Medium, Good, Best.

FBR range = 45 Megabytes/Hour to 400 Megabytes/Hour.

【Max Bit Rate】Select the maximum bit rate for Variable Bit Rate (VBR)

record.

【Show LOGO/ OSD/ Week】If you check those box, system will show

corresponding information on screen.

【Position】Set the position of OSD or Logo by entering the X and Y

coordinate directly.

【OSD】Set the display attribute of the OSD & LOGO. There are four

types of display modes: Clarity-Glitter, Clarity-Not Glitter, Not Clarity-Glitter and
Not Clarity-Not Glitter.

【OSD Type】Select the type of OSD for the Week.

【Privacy】You can check this box to set the privacy mask on image

directly, and you can clear some privacy masks by pressing button.

【Record schedule】You can set record schedule in following chart.

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Note:

This record schedule is only available to EM-DVR/DVS/ with HDD/SD
card. There are 4 time segments every day. Every segment has a start time, an
end time and a record type. The time segment is set in sequence; every
segment can’t be overlapped, included or skipped with any other.

【Copy to】After finishing one channel, if you want to set any other
channels’ configuration as the same as this camera, you can select channel

number from drop-list, and press button.

Set the time to post or pre

record.

3.4 PTZ Control

Press button to set PTZ.

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In this screen, you can define the PTZ protocol and set the Preset Position
as well as the plan to execute them automatically.

【Camera NO.】Select the camera to be set from the drop- list.

【Baud rate】Set baud rate according to PTZ protocol from the drop- list.

【PTZ Protocol】Select the communication protocol for the PTZ camera

from drop-list.

【Copy to】After finishing one channel, if you want to set any other

channels’ configuration as the same as this camera, you can select channel

number from drop-list, and press button.

【PTZ Address】Set the address of the decoder, which must be matched

with the value of dipswitch in the PTZ.

【PTZ Speed】Set the speed of PTZ.

【Preset position & schedule setup】Define preset position and set time

to call preset position automatically. System can add or delete plan time.

【Name】Set the name for the current preset. 【Preset】 Set the preset
number for the current camera. 【 Add 】 Add the preset by current
configuration. 【Del】Delete the finished Preset . 【Call】Call the Preset if the

Mode is Call preset. If the mode is save preset, you should save the preset and
shouldn’t call the preset.

Set disable or how long the

PTZ will come back to the home position when there is no PTZ action.

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【Preset】Set a preset and click “Add” to add it to the Preset Schedule or

select one preset and press “Del” to delete from the Preset Schedule.

【Call Time】【Schedule List】Set the time when the preset will be called.

Tour Group

Add the Preset cameras into the Tour Group and set the Stay Time for one
tour group.

3.5 Sensor Setup

Press button to set sensor parameters.

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【Sensor NO】Select one sensor to be set.

【Sensor Name】Enter the name description of the sensor.

【Type】Select alarm type (sensor type) from “NO”(Normally Open) or

“NC”(Normally Closed).

【Policy】Select “Sensor Alarm Handling” firstly, handling policies will be

available as below:

On screen warning—Display the alarm information on the monitor.

Audio warning—Indicate the alarm with voice.

Upload to center—Upload the alarm information to center.

Trigger alarm out—Trigger alarm box to output the alarm.

【Trigger record camera】Set cameras to record triggered by the alarm.

You can select one or more channels. When there is an alarm input, the
cameras will be triggered to record (the record type of the channel is Alarm
Record), and the monitor will switch to preview the cameras (warning on
monitor is enable).

【Preset】Set camera that will move to its preset position when the alarm

happened.

【Schedule】Set alarm input precaution time firstly, then set time segment

according to the sequence. The time of each segment should not be
overlapped with each other and no skips are allowed. After the precaution time
of a certain day is set, you can copy the parameters to other dates by select a
day and press copy button.

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【Copy to】After finishing one channel, if you want to set any other

channels’ configuration as the same as this camera, you can select a channel

number from drop-list, and press button.

3.6 Alarm Setup

Press button to set alarm parameters.

【Camera】Select a camera to be set from the drop-list and you can copy

the configuration to the other cameras by clicking copy button.

【Alarm Type】Select alarm type: Motion detects Tempering alarm and

Video Loss.

【Level】Select sensibility levels from 0 (the lowest level) to 5 (the highest

level) for the alarm.

【Set motion detection areas】Left-click mouse and drag it on the screen

to select motion detect area, you can select the whole area or many areas.

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Also, you can clear one or whole area by press the button clear and test the
effect by clicking test button.

【Policy】Selecting “Handling current alarm” firstly, handling policies will

be available as follows:

On screen warning—Display the alarm information on the monitor.

Audio warning—Indicate the alarm with voice.

Upload to center—Update the alarm information to center.

Trigger alarm out—Trigger alarm box to output the alarm.

【Trigger record camera】Set cameras to record triggered by the alarm.

You can select one or more channels. When there is an alarm input, the
cameras will be triggered to record (the record type of the channel is Alarm
Record), and the monitor will switch to preview the cameras (warning on
monitor is enable).

【Schedule】Set alarm input precaution time. Select date firstly, then set

time segment according to the sequence. The time of each segment should
not be overlapped with each other and no skips are allowed. After the
precaution time of a certain day is set, you can copy the parameter to other
dates by select a day and press copy button.

【Copy to】After finishing one channel, if you want to set any other

channels’ configuration as the same as this camera, you can select channel
number from drop-list, and press button.

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Chapter4 Playback

4.1 Main Interface

Click button in main interface to enter playback interface.

4.2 Steps of Playback

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4.2.1 Select Date

Select one window (the 1st one in default), and then click button to
show the date.

The blue dates contain record data. The green date is the current date.
The gray dates signify no data. Only those blue ones can be selected and
when they are selected the camera window will appear automatically to show
cameras with record data.

Click or to change month and year to search data.

You should select date first. Otherwise, you can’t entry the all
sub-playback interface. You can’t select date in the sub- playback interface.

4.2.2 Select Record Type

Press the icon before “Motion” when you want to playback motion

recording. Others are the same.

When there is no record data of the selected record type, the below
picture will be shown.

4.2.3 Select Camera

After date selected system will show the camera states of corresponding

day, or click button directly to show the camera states of current day. The
number button with navy blue means this channel has record data. By pressing

it directly on the numerical panel, DVR system will play back record data from
the first file.

1. Synchronic Play

Click button to synchronize the time of all playback channels.

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You can also keep all channels Sync in pause and Next Frame.

2. Smart Search

(1). Function Introduction:

This function allows users to draw a zone on a video image and do a
search for any motions, missing objects, or unattended object events occurred
in that zone. It can help you find recorded video you are interested in.

Note:

Smart Search accuracy is decided by sensitivity value and threshold in

Motion Setup.

(2). Operation and Example

Press button, then select a search area, the system will play

all motion occurred within this area from previous 3 seconds to next 3 seconds
when the motion occurred. Press this button again will end smart search.

E.g.:

① ②

There is a telephone on the desk (Picture ①);

But it disappeared now (Picture ②);

If you want to know where the telephone is, you can select this area on the
image to do a smart search when playback the video.

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When you press the smart button, you should select the area percent by
single clicking the right mouse, if the motion percent of the area above the
select percent, it will be shown out.

Note:

1. Press synchronic button while smart search is running, system will
end smart search;

2. The sensitivity of the smart search is same as motion detection. If you
set a very low sensitivity, system will search even that there is no
motion in the specified area. Contrarily, if you set a high sensitivity, it is
possible that system will not search when there are some small range
motions in the specified area. So you should set the sensitivity
according to the surroundings.

4.2.4 Select File

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After selected the camera to play user can click button to show all

the files of this camera.

By default, system will play back video file from the first one. In this screen

you can change the file you want to play by double clicking it directly.

The camera list below the window shows the recorded data of the day you

select. Double click any time with record data, a red mark will be there. Then

use to enlarge the time bar, so that you can select an exact time you

want to playback.

When there are too much record data, you can use

to

select.

Press or to view the record data of other cameras.

The red bar means the exact time when system is playing back now.

Note:

It is not suggested that multi-channel (more than 10 channels) record and
playback coinstantaneous unless your PC has a wonderful configuration,
because the data throughput of HDD is huge. Multi-channel search in client
and server are the same except their paths. In client there are local and LAN
search. In LAN search, it searches among the record data in the local network

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of server.

4.3 Play File and Related Operations

Press button to set partition mode of Window, there are 1, 4, 9
and 16 splits. To reduce the load of CPU and get best effect, you should select

the partition mode according to the record channels amount and resolution.
There is a referenced configuration sample as below:

Computer configuration:

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz
Motherboard: ECS 848P-A
Graphic Card: ATI 9550 128MB
Memory: 512MB
HDD: 120G (IDE)

Recommended channel configuration for playback:

DVR Board

Channels

Record

Resolution

Recommended Playback

Channels

64 CIF 4

48 CIF 4

DCIF 4

40

CIF 4

DCIF 4

32

CIF 9

DCIF 9

24

CIF 16

4CIF 4

DCIF 9

Less or

Equal to16

CIF 16

Press button to open all playback windows in sequence according
to the order of the cameras.

Note:

If you press this button as soon as you enter the playback interface, all the
cameras will be played back from the beginning of this day when there is
record data. For example, there is record data from 8:00 AM to all cameras,
then, they will be played back from 8:00 AM. If you select a point of time on the

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time bar and then press this button, then, all the cameras will be played back
from that time.

Press this button , the selected camera will reverse playback, and

press it again, the reverse playback will stop.

Last frame, Start, Pause, Stop and Next frame

First frame, Last minute, Next minute and Last frame of

that day.

Image zoom in: Press this button and draw a red frame on the video,

then, the part in the frame will be enlarged. You can single-right-click on the
image to resume.

Adjust the voice. Click the button to clear the voice.

Adjust playing speed. Click the button to resume normal

playing speed.

4.4 Capture Picture

Click capture button to capture a still picture. When one is captured,
there will be a dialog to ask for a file name. After your confirmation, you will be

asked to input the save path. When you capture a picture next time, it will be
saved to the previous path without ask you again. But you can modify or delete
the save path in a file named system, with INI as suffix in SetPara.

Note:

The size of the image is that of the playing window.

4.5 Backup

Note:

If user has no right to backup, he will be forbidden to get access to “Create
video file clip” and “Backup record by time”. When he clicks the two options,
the dialog as below will be shown:

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Click button ，there are four items to be selected as below.

4.5.1 Create File Clip

Press to create file clip after you entered

Backup.

【Select channel and save path】Select channel and save path of the

backup file on the top of interface.

【File list and attribute】Select a file and double-click it to play and its

attribute will display below the list , including begin time, end time, file size,
resolution, frame rate etc.

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【 Play control button 】 User can press and drag slider on

to control the player time.

【Beginning and stop position setup】After you select a time, press

button to set it as the beginning time, and then drag the bar to select

another time and press button to set it as the end time. When you finished,

the file attribute on the left will show the size of the file to be created.【Save
file】After you setting the beginning and end time press button to save the

file, it will ask you for the file name. If you input nothing, the file will be named
as the camera.

【Voice control 】Click to control voice. Press it to clear voice.

4.5.2 Backup by Time

Press to enter backup by time feature.

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