5.3 Video Recording Trigger
1
）
The application can perform 3 types of video recording , the alarm video recording
(set in Figure 4), scheduled recording (set in Figure 5) and manual recording (by
clicking on the record button in Figure 10). The manual recording has top priority,
scheduled recording takes second, then alarm recording. Example:
If a manual recording is initialed by the time an alarm is activated, the application
will stop the alarm recording first then start the manual recording.
When performing a scheduled video recording, an alarm is activated, the
application will not response to the alarm recording request.
2
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Prefix of A, M and S will be set to the file name according to alarm recording, manual
recording and scheduled recording, time stamp will fill up the other part and ends up
with .avi (H
series products’ suffix is.asf)
3
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Whenever the recording time is longer than one hour for manual recording or
scheduled recording, a new file will be created for each hour.
5.4 Stop the Video
A video can be stopped by the following two methods:
1
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Select a started device and click the
button can stop it's video. All devices can
be stopped by clicking on the down arrow and select
“stop all video” from the drop list.
2
）
Right click on a channel and select stop video from the pop-up menu to stop it.
6 Device Control
Select a video channel from the display area directly, and you can control the device of
this channel.
6.1 Base Operation
1
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Double click on a channel will stretch the video to full screen. By double clicking it
again, the video will shrink back to its original size.
2
）
Click and hold a channel can drag and drop it to another channel, in case the target
channel is utilized, the two video channels will swap.
3
）
By right clicking on a channel, user can perform some operations like stop video,
stretch, etc from the pop-up menu.
4
）
By clicking on the icons in the status bar for each channel, you can snapshot or
record manually. Due to different functions, every series product has its own icon
content. Status bar of B Series is as Figure 10, it displays the frame rate is 20.5, click
these icons, talkback, sound intercepting, snapshot and manual video recording can
be performed accordingly.
Figure 10: Channel Status Bar
Note, the talkback icon is disabled in case another user is utilizing the talkback
function. User can only talk to and intercept the sound from the device according to
current channel.
A window will pop-up after a snapshot, take more snapshot or delete snapshot can be
performing within the window. The file name for manual snapshot will start with M,
time stamp as the rest, then .JPG as ending.
6.2 Device Control Panel
Device control panel can be accessed by clicking on 'device control' at the lower right
corner or pressing space.
1
）
You can look up the current channel device information in the Device Control Panel,
including: device name and device IP address.
2
）
The Pan/Tilt can turn up, down, left, right by clicking on the arrows accordingly in the
“PTZ Control” area. You also use keyboard to control Pan/Tilt, like as: ← → ↑ ↓;
3
）
Part of H Series IP Camera, like High Speed Dome , to click
can
control Zoom;
4
）
Part of H Series IP Camera, if it has connected a Pan/Tilt, to click:
You will Set/Call the preset; and click auto, the Pan/Tilt will cruise according the
preset; and click stop, the Pan/Tilt will stop cruise
；
5
）
A window will pop-up by clicking the 'advanced' button, for the purpose to set up the
video compress parameter such as definition, bit rate control, etc
7 Channel Management
For the purpose of better video viewing, multiple channel switches are provided. There are
switch buttons above the device and channel management panel, shown as Figure 11.
Figure 11: Channel Switch Buttons
The application can provide up to 16 channel videos; it can manage up to 64 devices
simultaneously.
