VBrick Systems EtherneTV NVR User Manual

EtherneTV v4.2.1 NVR

VBrick
ETV Network Video Recorder

Release Notes

May 9, 2008

4410-0162-0005

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About VBrick Systems

Founded in 1997, VBrick Systems, an ISO 9001 certified vendor, is a privately held company that has enjoyed rapid
growth by helping our customers successfully introduce mission critical video applications across their enterprise
networks. Since our founding, VBrick has been setting the standard for quality, performance and innovation in the
delivery of live and stored video over IP networks—LANs, WANs and the Internet. With thousands of video
appliances installed world-wide, VBrick is the recognized leader in reliable, high-performance, easy-to-use
networked video solutions.

VBrick is an active participant in the development of industry standards and continues to play an influential role in
the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA), the MPEG Industry Forum, and Internet2. In 1998 VBrick
invented and shipped the world's first MPEG Video Network Appliance designed to provide affordable DVD­quality video across the network. Since then, VBrick's video solutions have grown to include Video on Demand,
Management, Security and Access Control, Scheduling, and Rich Media Integration. VBrick solutions are
successfully supporting a broad variety of applications including distance learning and training, conferencing and
remote office communications, security, process monitoring, traffic monitoring, business and news feeds to the
desktop, webcasting, corporate communications, collaboration, command and control, and telemedicine. VBrick
serves customers in education, government, healthcare, and financial services markets among others.

NVR v4.2 Release Notes

The Network Video Recorder (NVR) is a component of VBrick's Media Control Server Suite
and provides a dedicated platform to perform multiple simultaneous recordings of live
streams coming from VBrick encoders. The NVR lets you off-load all recording tasks from
the ETV Portal Server machine to one or more separate "recorder server" machines. The
NVR is available in two versions—one that supports 10 simultaneous records and one that
supports 40—and is ideal for environments that require large scale recording on a robust and
reliable platform. The NVR is tightly integrated with the Portal Server, the Scheduler, and
VBrick's Video-on-Demand servers. See the ETV Portal Server Administrator Guide for
related information.

Topics in this document

Installing an NVR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Configuring an NVR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

NVR Hardware Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Caveats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Installing an NVR

The NVR is sold as a hardware/software combination or as software-only product. If you
purchased the hardware/software combination from VBrick, the Standard or Standalone
NVR software will be pre-installed and your server license(s) will be activated. You will still
need to configure the NVR as explained in the Portal Server Admin Guide.

If you purchased only the software from VBrick, you must install the NVR software as
explained below and then configure it using the instructions in the Admin Guide. If you are
using server hardware not purchased from VBrick, be sure to read NVR Hardware
Recommendations on page 2.

Installing a Standard NVR

T To install a standard NVR:

1. Go to the "Network Video Recorder" page on the Product CD and double-click on
the

Standard NVR setup file.

2. Follow the prompts and exit the window when done.

3. Then open the Portal Server Admin Console and configure the NVR: see
"Configuring a Standard NVR" in the Portal Server Admin Guide.

Installing a Standalone NVR

T To install a standalone NVR:

1. Go to the "Network Video Recorder" page on the Product CD and double-click on
the

Standalone NVR setup file.

Network Video Recorder Release Notes 1