System information
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MyDVR: Conguration Overview
Display: Camera (see page 20)
Channel Name (Check Box): Whether the channel’s name will
be displayed on screen or not.
Channel Name: The title you’d like to give that camera.
Record Data: Whether the overlays (Channel Name, Date and
so on) will be recorded onto the video with your images.
Mask (Check Box): Turns the masking function on or o.
Mask (Setup): Creates a black privacy overlay which masks part
of your images. Will aect recordings.
Recording: General (page 22 for more)
Encoding Parameter: Choose from the main-stream or sub-
stream to congure.
Main Stream: The way the DVR will internally process and
record video.
Sub Stream: The way the DVR will encode and send video to a
remote device (such as the PC you’re using to access the DVR).
Record Audio (Check Box): Turn the audio recording function
on or o.
Resolution: How many pixels (little dots) make up your image.
From highest to lowest resolution: D1, HD1, CIF
Frame Rate: How many images per second the DVR will capture.
“Realtime” is 30fps (NTSC) or 25fps (PAL).
BitRate Limit: The maximum size that your video les will be.
The higher this is set, the better recordings will look - however,
they’ll also ll the hard drive faster.
Recording: Advanced Cong (see page 23)
Overwrite: Whether the DVR will erase old recordings to make
room for new ones, or not.
Pre-record: How long before an alarm event or motion the DVR
will record.
Delay: How long after an alarm event or motion the DVR will
continue to record for.
Pack Duration: The amount of video that will be stored as a
single “pack”.
Recording: Schedule (see page 24)
The schedule presented on-screen applies to one channel on
one specic day of the week only.
Use the Copy To functions to quickly assign identical schedule
layouts to multiple days/channels at once.
Be careful when programming your schedule. It’s one of the
most important aspects of setting up your DVR, and if it’s
wrong in any way, it could lead to disastrous complications
later.