Quantum XTRA Quick User Manual

Vista QXTRA quick user guidel V1.0

Quick user guide for QXTRA range of

DVRs

Quantum XTRA – Quick User manual

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CE Information

The product must be installed according to the currently valid installation regulations
for EMC to guarantee the designed use and to prevent EMC problems.

The device supplied with this manual is according to the EC, EMC Directive,
2004/108/EC & LVD 2006/95/EC

Standard used for showing compliance with the essential requirements of the device:
EN 55022
EN 61000-3-2
EN 61000-3-3
EN 50130-4
EN 55024
LVD: EN60950-1

Safety Precautions

Caution before Use

Please read this manual before installing or using the DVR.
Please keep this manual in a safe place, to allow for future reference
For the safety and proper use, The DVR is marked with various symbols. Please read these
to prevent injury of financial loss.

Installation Site

Ensure installation position is level, secure and adequately ventilated.
Avoid installing close to sources of humidity or water.

Contact details

Belgium [phone]
Nederland [phone]
Portugal [phone]
South Africa [phone]
Spain [phone]
Middle East [phone]
UK [phone]
Rest of world [phone]

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Contents

OPERATION ......................................................................................................................... 6

1. NAVIGATION ..................................................................................................................... 6

1-1. Mouse Control .......................................................................................................................................... 6

1-2. Menu Navigation ...................................................................................................................................... 6

2. MONITORING .................................................................................................................... 7

2-1. Live screen OSD Description ................................................................................................................... 7

2-2. Select Channel ......................................................................................................................................... 7

2-3. Digital Zoom ............................................................................................................................................. 7

3. PLAYBACK ....................................................................................................................... 8

3-1. OSD Description ....................................................................................................................................... 8

3-2. Playback Control ...................................................................................................................................... 9

3-3. Playback Search .................................................................................................................................... 10

DATE & TIME, EVENT AND BOOKMARK SEARCH ..................................................................... 11

Calendar / Date and time searches ............................................................................................................... 12

Event Search ................................................................................................................................................. 13

Log search ..................................................................................................................................................... 14

Bookmark search ........................................................................................................................................... 15

GOTO SEARCH OPTION .......................................................................................................16

4. ARCHIVING EVIDENCE TO DVD/CD OR USB .....................................................................17

Time and Date archive................................................................................................................................... 17

Event list archiving ......................................................................................................................................... 20

CLIENT VIEWER SOFTWARE ............................................................................................21

1. LIVE MONITORING ...........................................................................................................24

2. REMOTE SEARCH ................................ ................................................................ ............25

2-1. Search .................................................................................................................................................... 25

2-2. Archive.................................................................................................................................................... 27

INSTALLATION ...................................................................................................................30

1. FRONT PANEL CONTROLS ................................................................................................30

2. REAR PANEL CONNECTORS .............................................................................................32

3. REMOTE CONTROL ..........................................................................................................34

4. CONNECTION GUIDE ........................................................................................................35

5. TURNING ON THE DVR ....................................................................................................37

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Operation

1. Navigation

You can navigate the on screen menus using the front panel buttons, remote controller or
mouse.

1-1. Mouse Control

Right clicking the mouse brings up the following popup menu.

Screen view selection
PAN/Tilt Menu
Search menu
Goto function (only in Search mode)
Setup menu icon
Sequence icon
Eject icon
Emergency record icon (Stop/start toggle)
Playback mode

1-2. Menu Navigation

To enter the Setup menu, the user has to have the required access rights and be logged on.
Press the Menu button or right click with mouse on screen and select the menu icon.
The following screen will be displayed asking for password.

Select the user ID.
Enter the password.

The default password is 00000000(8 zeros).
Press OK, the setup menu will be displayed

on screen.

All menus are navigated around using the Left/
Right/ Up/ Down and the Select button or mouse.

To step back out of the menus, press MENU button
or click the right button of the mouse.

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2. Monitoring

2-1. Live screen OSD Description

The Status Bar on screen shows HDD capacity, network connection, current time, etc.

Archiving in background

- HDD capacity: Used capacity / Total capacity

- Network connection: It is shown that admin or user is connected.

- Mouse connection

~ - Multi-screen Display Buttons

- Current Date/Time

– Click here to temporarily hide the information bar

2-2. Select Channel

Use the Multi-screen display buttons on the status bar to select the display mode.

Example: 9 Channel

Also you can use the DIS button on the remote controller to change the display mode.
Display switches in the following order when the DIS button is pressed.

Single Channel  4 Channel  9 Channel  16 Channel  17 Channel

2-3. Digital Zoom

When the system is in full-screen mode, left click and drag your mouse over the area to be
enlarged a grey rectangle will appear. Left click the mouse to zoom in on the highlighted

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area.
To exit digital zoom, right click the mouse.

3. Playback

Click the right button on the mouse, the popup menu will be displayed on screen.

(Ensure that the PTZ function is turned off – Otherwise Play back mode will not operate)

3-1. OSD Description

The Control Bar on screen shows Playback control buttons, Progress bar, Display mode
buttons, Playback time, etc.

To begin playback, press the
Play button on the popup
menu.

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3-2. Playback Control

Play Forward

When the Play Forward button( ) is pressed, the unit will play forward at the rate the data
was recorded. While in the play mode, the user may change the playback direction, playback

speed. To return to play forward operations, press the Play Forward button( ).

Reverse Play

To begin reverse playback, press the Reverse Play button( ).

Pause

During playback, press the Pause button( ). This feature pauses all full screen and multi­screen images. To release the pause press the pause button for a second time.

Single Frame Advance

During the pause mode, press the Frame Advance button( ) to view the frame directly after
the frame displayed on screen.

Single Frame Rewind
During the pause mode, press the Frame Rewind button( ) to view the frame directly before

the frame displayed on screen.

Fast Forward

In playback mode, press the Fast Forward button( ) to switch between various fast play
modes such as x2, x4, x8, x16 play.

Fast Backward

In reverse playback mode, press the Fast Backward button( ) to switch between various
reverse play modes such as x2, x4, x8, x16 reverse play.

Stop

To stop playback and return to the live mode, press the Stop button( ).

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3-3. Playback Search

To search within the recorded video, while in play back mode, right click on the screen, the
following menu icon menu will appear,

Cameras Selection

Click the Camera selection icon to display the following box:

Interlace selection

A choice of OFF, D1 or D2 will be offered
OFF – Optimized for resolution, but shows 2 individual fields so can produce juddering on

moving objects.
D1 - Optimized for moving images, with slight reduction in resolution
D2- Optimized for resolution but shows integration artefacts on moving objects

Camera selection

Interlace selection

Date & Time, Event and
Bookmark search

GOTO selection

Main menu

Sequence selection

DVD Eject

Emergency record

Return to live

Full screen camera selection

Quad screen selection

Nine way split selection

Sixteen way split selection

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Click on the Date and time search icon to display the following selection window:

Review screen

Playback of recordings will be displayed in this window, in either full screen or split screen
format, format is chosen using icons below the screen.

Playback time

The time at which the recorded images were made is displayed in this box

Bookmark toggle arrows

Click on the right arrow to display the Bookmark search screen, see Book marks below.

Time
line

Calendar search,
days with recording
shown in blue

Date and Time
selection

Date and Time /
Event search
and log
selection bar

Toggle to
Bookmark
search

Review screen
split selection

Review
screen

Playback
time

Archive button

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Calendar / Date and time searches

Time Line

When a specific date is chosen in the calendar search box, cameras with recordings will be
graphically displayed in the this box,

Blue – Time-lapse recording

Red – Alarm recording

Yellow – Motion recording

Calendar Search

Select the required month using the arrows, days within this month that have recordings
related to them, will be displayed in blue

Time and Date selection

A specific time and date can be chosen; click on the start time, a data entry box will appear,
enter the correct start time and press PLAY.

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Event Search

Click on the Event search selection button the screen below will be displayed.

Event type

Select either motion or alarm events

Time period

Set the start and stop times for the parameters of the search

Camera selection

Select the camera channels that are valid for the search

Start search

Click start search, the search results will be displayed in the table on the right side of the
screen. To play the events, double click on the entry in list

Archiving Events

To Archive, tick the boxes on the right hand side of the list for the required events, then click
the Archive box at the bottom of the list.

Event type

Event search selection

Camera selection

Time period selection

Start search

Move to archive
screen

Archive
selection
tick box

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Log search

The system logs can be accessed and reviewed from the same search screen, click on the
Log search button to display the menu below:

A total of 5000 events can be recorded the oldest being overwritten when a new one occurs,
they can be viewed all together or as individual types.

The log file contains information on the following:

Power : Power on, Power off, Power fail
Record : Rec fail, Rec start, Rec stop, Rec error, Rec full
Operation : Play start, Play stop, HDD format, Menu set
Event : Alarm, Motion, Audio, Video loss, Email fail

Archive : This lists the user, time/date when archive was done, and time range of

archived section.

Select the parameters to be search.
Press the Start Search button, the list will appear in the box on the right
Selecting any event from the list will display it is detail in the Log detail box.

Log
display list

Start search

Log parameter
selection

To export the log,
click the archive
button, this will
display the Archive
menu screen

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Bookmark search

Using the arrows on the left side of the screen toggle to the Bookmark option, to display the
screen below:

To play the recorded data, double click on the entry in the list.

Bookmark
list

Bookmark
details

Delete all bookmarks

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To operate the GOTO function, while in playback, right click on the screen to display the
following icon option menu:

The following selection bar will appear on screen:

Click on the time and date box, a data entry screen will appear on screen, fill in the desired
Time and date, click ok then click on the GOTO button.

Select the GOTO icon

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4. Archiving Evidence to DVD/CD or USB

Once the required video has been found, it may be necessary to down load it for evidential
purposes. This can be done either onto the internal CD/DVD-R writer or via the USB port.
Archives can be made from a known time and date period or from a list of events.

Time and Date archive

To do this press the Archive icon then follow steps below for a know time and date period:

Device

This allows selection between the internal CD /DVD-R writer and the FLASH option via the
USB port.
Insert media (disc or USB flash drive) and then press Device box.
The media will be automatically recognised by DVR.

Device Format

This is only required when using a USB pen, there is no need to format CDs or DVDs.

Type

Exclusive : If evidence is downloaded as an Exclusive file, the DVR will download
bespoke player software on to the CD / DVD or USB device along with the
evidence. This means that no special software is required, by the reviewing
PC. This format is secure and watermarked.

AVI : The evidence is downloaded as an AVI file, this backup file can be played on
a PC using the well known media player like Windows media player. Only
one camera at a time can be downloaded.

Devices

Device format

Calculate
Archive Size

Transfer
Type

Log

Config
From / To

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Log

The Log file can be downloaded from this menu screen, check the Log box.
Config

The Configuration files for the DVR can be downloaded and saved.

From / To

Click on the select to edit box, the following screen will appear:

Click on add, the following screen will appear:

When selection is complete click OK
The Archive list screen will reappear:

Add button

Enter the
start and stop
time

Select the
camera inputs
to be archived

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Right click on the list, an “ACCEPT LIST” box will appear, click YES.
The original Archive screen will be displayed:

Click on the Calculate Archive size, to confirm the file will fit on the available media.
Next click on the “Transfer” button, a percentage done, during downloading, will be shown

on the screen. Once the download process has started, it will operate in the background,
while the DVR is being used normally.

NOTE Do not shutdown the DVR during the archiving process.

Ensure the
boxes for any
periods
required are
ticked

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Event list archiving

To create an archive from an list of events, create the list of events as described in the
previous section “Event Search”. At this point the following screen will be displayed:

Once the archive box has been clicked, the original Archive screen will be displayed.

Click on the Calculate Archive size, to confirm the file will fit on the available media.
Next click on the “Transfer” button, a percentage done, during downloading, will be shown

on the screen. Once the download process has started, it will operate in the background,
while the DVR is being used normally.

Tick the boxes of
the events to be
archived.

Click the
“Archive” box

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Client Viewer software

Each DVR comes with license free viewer software to view the DVR across a network.
To be able to do this the recommended minimum specification for the PC is as follows:

Minimum PC specification

> CPU: Core 2 Duo 3.16GHz,
> Graphic Memory: 512MB

Installing software

When you put Network installation CD into your PC, it will auto run and lead you through an
installation wizard. Follow the instructions. Once the software is loaded it will automatically
run.

Connection

To connect to the Unit, open the Viewer Software and click the connection button,

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Logging on

The following window will appear.
To connect to the QXTRA, enter the units: IP address; DVR Port (2000 by default), ID and

Password. Then, click “OK”, to start the live monitoring.
Description field is the name of area / Building / location of the DVR, this should be typed in

he first time the unit is connected to, this will store it in the address book.

Address book

Click on the Arrow to the left of the IP
address, the following box will appear.
This lists the last 22 units that have
been accessed. To reconnect to one of
these units simply double click, then
add the ID and Password.

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Explanation of Screen Buttons

When the toolbar selection arrows are selected, a second tool bar option will be
shown as below:

Connect

Tool bar selection

Remote
Search

Remote
setup

Local
Search

Local
Setup

Pan/Tilt

Zoom/
Focus

Firmware

upgrade

Close

Client
version



Split screen
options



Full screen

Return to live

Turn off OSD

Camera re-arrange
Save image

Open saved images

Audio

Audio controls

Playback controls



Camera selection
Buttons



Connect
Reboot DVR

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1. Live Monitoring

The software is best viewed with the PC monitor resolution, set to: 1024 x 768.

Split Screen options (1/4/6/7/8/9/10/13/6)

Spilt Screens can be viewed during both live and playback. The splits screens available are:
full screen,4,6,7, 8,9,10,13 and 16 way.

1) Full Screen 2) 10 Way

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2. Remote Search

Search(Date/Time/Event/Calendar), Archive(Remote Archive), Log(Remote Log) are
available.

2-1. Search

This Remote Search is able to play back video on the PC direct from the hard disk storage
on the DVR. There are 3 options for as follows.

1) Date/Time

2) Event

3) Calendar

Date/Time

Event

When the cursor is placed over a part of the
time and date a drop down arrow will
appear, use this to set the required value.
When set.

Click “Play” button, this window disappears

and Remote Playback will start.

To stop playing back press Stop
the search screen will appear to allow
another search to be carried out, if not

required, click cancel followed by live .

Click on the Event button on the right hand
side, the software will search for all event
types. This may take a short while.

A list of the available events will appear.
To play an Event select it and click Play.

To stop playing back press Stop the
search screen will appear to allow another
search to be carried out, if not required, click

cancel followed by live .

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Calendar

Select the date required (as long as the date is highlighted in Blue there is recorded data on
from that day).

There are 3 options for selecting the required time once the date has been selected.

1) Drag the Red line along the colour bar (I.e. Blue: Normal Recording) till the required time
is reached.

2) Click on the required time for playback on the blue bar then the red line will move to this
point.

3) Hover over the time box, a drop down arrow will appear allowing the manual selection of
Hours, mins and seconds.

Next click the “Play” button for Remote Playback. Or, click “Prev” to go back to previous
stage.

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Select Channel

.

2-2. Archive

Remote Archive – Date/Time

Remote Archive – Event

Enter the Start and End dates and times, by
hovering over the selections, a drop down box
will appear.

Once selection is made, then “click” calculate,
the file size will be displayed. Finally click
“Archive”, the file will be transferred to
C:\ H264CD \Download.

Select either: Alarm, Motion or Audio
from the top of the screen. A list of
events will appear.

Click on the event required, it will be
come highlighted.

Click on Calculate, the file size will be
calculated, this may take a few
seconds.

Finally click Archive; the file will be
transferred to C:\ H264CD\Download.

Channels can be included or excluded dependent
on query. This is available within Search, Backup
and Logs.

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Remote Archive – Calendar

Select the date required (Days with recorded video a data present are highlighted in Blue)

There are 3 options for selecting the required time once the date has been selected.

1) Drag the Red line along the colour bar (I.e. Blue: Normal Recording) till the required time
is reached.

2) Click on the required time for playback on the blue bar then the red line will move to this
point.

3) Hover over the time box, a drop down arrow will appear allowing the manual selection of
Hours, minutes and seconds.

Then click the “Next” button to set “End” Archive time, in the same manner.

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The backup procedure is same as Date/Time & Event backup as previous page.

* “Prev” to go back to previous stage.

*The downloaded data is saved in the follows location.
C:\H264CD\Download.

Play back down loaded files

Open the viewer software but do not connect to a unit, click the cancel button to remove the
log on box.

Next click on the Local search button the normal search box will appear, use the
same method to search the files on the PC and Play back

Quit (Exiting Client program)

To exit the Client viewer program click the Quit button.

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Installation

1. Front Panel Controls

Power

System Power On/Off

Record button

Press to stop recording (password protected)

Video play back keys

Play, Stop, Pause, fast forward etc.

Search key

Press once to put unit into playback mode, press a second time to enter the search menus

Select key

Used as an enter button in the menus

Menu

Displays the menu on the screen

PTZ Camera select key

Select the cameo image to be controlled in the multi screen views.

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Audio select key

Selects the audio track (with reference to a cameo image) to be played.

Decrease volume

DVD

Increase volume

Multi screen selection

Use the Multi-screen display button to select the display mode (single/4way/9way/

16way/17way screen).

PTZ mode selection

Turns the telemetry function on or off

Arrow keys

Used to navigate around the menu pages

Zoom control

This toggles the function of the arrow keys, when in PTZ mode the front arrow keys can
be used to pan and tilt or to zoom and focus

Number Buttons

Used for individual camera selection and selection of numbers & letters within the setup

menus and searches

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2. Rear Panel Connectors

Spot Monitor Outputs

Spot Video Output (Composite Video)

Video Inputs

8 Channel

16 Channel

16

HDMI For future
development

HDMI For future
development

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16 camera inputs

Video Outputs

16 camera loop outputs

Audio Input

Audio input through line

AC Power Input

AC 100-240V 50/60Hz

VGA Output (Dual Monitor)

VGA video output for dual monitor (1024x768)

HDMI Output

For future use - not yet functional

VGA Output (Main Monitor)

VGA video output for main monitor (1920x1080)

Audio Output

Audio output

RS232

Serial Communication (for service)

Network Port

Connecting to the DVR through Internet or LAN

USB Port

USB 2.0 port for mouse

eSATA Port

Port for e-SATA HDD

PTZ Camera Controller

Serial Communication for Pan / Tilt Camera

Alarm Output

Alarm(relay) output port

Sensor Input

16 Sensor input ports

16

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3. Remote Control

POWER : Power on/off
P/T/Z : Entering PTZ Setup menu directly
REC : Start & Stop Recording
Numbers and letters (1 to 9)

INFO : Direct access system information

ID : Entering control ID set mode
MUTE : Audio Mute
AUDIO : Switches through Audio channels

MENU: Entering system menu
SEARCH: Entering search

ARROW : Left, Right, Up and Down
SEL : Select/Enter

VOL +/- : Up, down volume
CH +/- : Up, down channel

( ) : Reverse play

( ) : Play (or fast forward)

I I : Pause

: Stop playback

OSD : On Screen Display ON/OFF

SEQ : Sequence operation
LOG : Direct access Log list

CAM : Changing PTZ icon

P/T : Pan &Tilt
Z/F : Zoom/ & Focus
DIS : Channel Division

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4. Connection Guide

Connecting the monitor

There are four available monitor outputs on the DVR.

● VGA(main) output : Connect to the VGA port of the main monitor.

● VGA(sub) output : Connect to the VGA port of the sub monitor.

● Composite output : Connect to the Video Input of the spot monitor.

● HDMI – For future development, not yet functioning

Spot

Camera

Mic

Main

Monitor

Sub

Speaker

System

PC

Mouse

PTZ

Camera

Siren

Sensor

e-SATA

HDD

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Connecting cameras

This unit comes with either 8 or 16 video inputs. Each video input has a corresponding
looping output beneath it for passing the video signal to another monitoring/recording device.

● Video input : Connect to the video out of the camera.

Connecting audio

To record audio on the DVR, connect to the audio source.

● Audio input : Connect to the audio out of the microphone.

To listen to live or recorded audio, connect to an amplified speaker system.

● Audio output : Connect to the audio in of the audio AMP.

Connecting to a network

Use the Ethernet port to connect to remote PC via Ethernet network.

Connecting to a sensor input

There are 16 individual alarm inputs marked as Sensor In (1-16).

● Sensor inputs : Connect to (+) terminal of a sensor.

● Common GND : Connect to (–) terminals of sensors.

Connecting to a alarm output

The DVR can activate external devices such as buzzers or lights using the relay.
There are 4 relay outputs marked as Alarm out.

● Alarm outputs : Connect to (+) terminal of buzzer or light.

● Common GND : Connect to (–) terminals of buzzers or lights.

Common

Sensor

Common

GND

Alarm

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Connecting to a PTZ camera

This RS485 connector can be used to control Pan / Tilt / Zoom camera.

● Telemetry (+) : Connect to RS485 Rx(+) of PTZ camera.

● Telemetry (-) : Connect to RS485 Rx(-) of PTZ camera.

Connecting to a mouse

● USB 2.0 : Connect to the mouse.

Connecting to a external HDD

To expand the HDD capacity, connect the external storage.

● e-SATA : Connect to the e-Sata HDD storage.

5. Turning on the DVR

1. Connect the power cable.

2. Connect camera cables.

3. Connect a network cable and a monitor cable.

4. Press the POWER button on the front panel and wait until the main screen is displayed on
the connected monitor; this process may take a couple of minutes.

(-)

(+)

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Operator Notes

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Operator Notes