User manual

Preliminary MAVIX
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MAVIEW Player Application
Please refer to Fig#13. The MAVIEW Player is a desktop application that allows
users to connect to video cameras and view live video streams, (up to 4 cameras
simultaneously) search and display video files from local disk or files recorded by
StreamR applications, capture live video into local AVI files or single frame snapshot
BMP files.
The MAVIEW Player is intended for those users of the system, who are usually
outside the Control Room, and do not require the extended capabilities of hardware
based decompression and display on Analog monitors, as present in the Control room.
In order to start the MAVIEW Player application, a user name and a password are
required. The user name and the password shall be one of those defined in the System
using the System Configurator application. The current User ID is displayed on the
title bar of the main window.
The main window of the MAVIEW Player consists of several areas: the display area,
the menu area and the control area.
Display Area: in this section 1 or 4 video windows are displayed, according to the
Display Mode selected in the Control area. When in 4 Windows Mode, any single
window may be selected by clicking on it with the Operations initiated by the
Operator will be performed on the Selected window, while the other screens will
continue with their defined operations. For example, in order to display a live video
streaming on window 1, the operator must select window 1 on the display area by
using the left mouse button, and then select the required video stream from the
Camera List at the control section (See figure 13).