VIVOTEK ST3402 User’s Manual 0
Contents 105B Chapter 1 Installation.................................................................................................1-3 1.1 System Hardware Requirements...............................................................1-3 1.1.1 Recommended minimum system hardware requirements ...............1-3 1.1.2 Suggestions ......................................................................................1-4 1.2 Software Installation ...................................................................
4.1.1 Starting the Scheduling tool...........................................................4-59 4.2 The Layout and Functionalities ..............................................................4-59 4.2.1 Introduction....................................................................................4-59 4.2.2 The Functionalities of Configuration Components........................4-61 4.2.3 The Schedule Scheme operations ..................................................4-61 4.3 Primary Schedule ..........
Chapter 1 Installation 0B 1.1 System Hardware Requirements 5B Before installing the application software, make sure your system has the following recommended minimum hardware requirements. 1.1.1 Recommended minimum system hardware requirements 28B The system requirement recommended for this application is as follows. OS: MS Windows 2000/XP/98SE/Me CPU: Intel 2.
1.1.2 Suggestions 29B The following suggestions will help you to run our software faster and smooth. All suggestions are optional. 1. Maximum supported hard disk space － 200GB is the maximum tested supported hard disk space. Performance can’t be guaranteed if the recording hard disk space is greater than 200GB. 2. In Window XP system, close system restore － In Window XP, system restore will help you to back to the previous restore point that recorded a snapshot of your computer.
As shown in Figure 1-1, you can disable system restore of all disk or specified disk. X X 3. Exclude file protectation for specified files in AntiVirus － The following Table 1-2 represents the specified files that should be excluded in AntiVirus to accelerate our application.
Figure 1-3 Auto-Protect Exclusion List 4. Exclude file protectation for specified files in PC-cillin － As shown in Figure 1-4, find “Settings \ Real-time scan \ Selected files \ Select File Types” and ensure the files described in table 1-1 do not exist in the list.
NOTE: If the above settings cannot help you to improve performance, try to use disk defragmenter “Start \ All Programs \ Accessories \ System Tools \ Disk Defragmenter” to reconfigure your hard disk may help your computer more efficient. 1.2 Software Installation 6B The following are steps for the software installation. STEP 1: Put the Installation disk into the CD-ROM drive, and installation should start automatically.
Figure 1-6 Welcome page for the VIVOTEK ST3402 STEP 3: If you click on “Next” and Figure 1-7 appears, it means you have installed a previous version of the recording software (the previous version is the video-only version, which means it would not get the audio stream from servers). If you want to keep the previous version, choose the second option. If you are new to the Smart VS-IP recorder software, this window will not appear; skip on over to Step 4.
to continue. Figure 1-8 User information for Smart VS-IP Recorder STEP 5: Set up the administrator’s password by entering a password and confirm the password as shown in Figure 1-9. Click on “Next” to continue.
STEP 6: Select the installation directory for this application software and click on “Next”, as shown in Figure 1-10. You can also change the installation directory from the Default directory by clicking on “Browse…” X X Figure 1-10 Destination Location for Installation STEP 7: Select a program folder to install the application software into and then click on “Next”, as shown in Figure 1-11.
STEP 8: After checking all the set up information shown in Figure 1-12, click on “Next” to start file movement and registries update. X X Figure 1-12 Check Setup Information STEP 9: Click on “Finish”, as shown in Figure 1-13, to finish installation. This completes the program installation.
1.3 First Start up 7B After installation, one of the IE settings needs to be changed before you can start running the Monitor program. Enable the mechanism for submitting non-encrypted data in the path “Start->Settings->control Panel->Internet Options->Security->Custom Level…\Setting:” You can also find the path from the IE browser, as it is depicted in the following. You can follow the instructions to complete this setting, as shown in Figure 1-14.
Chapter 2 Launcher 1B Launcher is a controller program that allows starting the recording procedure before the user logs in and the program will run as a service procedure after Window starts up automatically. LauncherUI is the program that provides a uer interface to allow the user to invoke Monitor or Playback quickly. In the following we refer to Launcher for both Launcher and LauncherUI. 1B 2.1 Security for Launcher 8B Starting Launcher does not require passing the username/password check.
Figure 2-1 Login Dialog When the Launcher is locked, the unlock window is as follows: Figure 2-2 Unlock Dialog The input area of the dialog will be grayed (disabled) for 60 seconds after three failure attempts. 2.2 User Interface 9B This is the user interface for Launcher: Figure 2-3 Popup Menu The main user interface for Launcher is an icon on the system tray.
is displayed by clicking on the right or left buttons on the mouse. The menu items are listed below: 1. Lock Launcher – When this item is selected, Launcher will enter Lock mode. In Lock mode, whenever the user wants to invoke the menu, a dialog asking for username and password appears. The interface for this dialog is covered in the previous section. 2. Tools – This contains utilities; currently only change password and user management are implemented. I.
Figure 2-5 User Management Window Figure 2-6 Add and Modify User Windows X Functionalities may be disabled according to the login user’s group. The following Table 2-1 represents the privilege of each group in Lanuncher.
Item Monitor Mode Root Start Power User General User Up ˇ User Management ˇ Playback ˇ ˇ Change Password ˇ ˇ ˇ Exit ˇ ˇ ˇ Lock / Unlock ˇ ˇ ˇ Logout ˇ ˇ ˇ Table 2-1 The Privilege in Launcher 3. Monitor start up mode – The option decides the program type of Monitor that is described in section 3 after Window boot up. There are three kinds of types: Service: Do not Autorun – The Monitor will be run as a service but it will not be invoked automatically after Window boot up.
closing (click on the close button in Monitor). It means that the recording procedure will be continued and user does not need to worry about missing media data that you like to record. As the following Figure 2-8, a useful hint can help user to monitor the state of running channel, monitoring channel and recording channel. Move cursor on Launcher icon on system tray and the hint will pop up automatically. X X Figure 2-8 The Hint of State Running – The number of current running channel(s) in Monitor.
6. Exit – This ends Launcher. If the user chooses this option, a message box will pop up to confirm whether the user really wants to exit. It warns the user that exiting Launcher will also close Monitor and Playback.
Chapter 3 Monitor 2B 3.1 Features of Monitor Tool 10B In this section, we will depict all features of the Monitor tool in this software. 3.1.1 Traditional Surveillance Features 30B The traditional surveillance features include the following 9 Real-time monitor 9 PTZ control 9 Recording 3.1.2 Special Features 31B In our digital surveillance system, we support not only the features listed above but also the following features, making the system more powerful and convenient to use.
3.2 Application Layout and Functionalities 1B This section demonstrates a global view of the Monitor tool, as shown in Figure 3-1. Components of the Monitor tool in details are shown in the following sections. X X Video area Misc.
9 status of connection, recording, selection, and alert-event triggered. Video area In this area, you can see the video of the selected channel in the display frame. The number of display frames in the video area depends on the layout chosen by the user. You can also do some convenient controls for the video display in it. 9 Layout area You can change different monitoring layouts in this area.
9 Talk If the connected Video Server / Network Camera series product supports two-way audio feature, the tool can be used to talk with remote side by using additional device, such as mircophone. 3.3 Logging In 12B The authentication mechanism is implemented in Launcher. If user has already passed the authentication in Launcher, Monitor can be invoked without further authentication. If not, the Authentication of Launcher will be popped up and user must pass it to get Monitor shows up.
Item Root Power User General User Backup ˇ Camera configuration ˇ Display & UI settings ˇ Global settings ˇ Record ˇ Schedule ˇ DI/DO control ˇ ˇ PTZ contrl ˇ ˇ Change layout ˇ ˇ ˇ Lock ˇ ˇ ˇ Printer ˇ ˇ ˇ Snapshot ˇ ˇ ˇ Stop alert ˇ ˇ ˇ Table 3-1 The Privilege of Each Group in Monitor Again, if you need to change the settings of remote Video Server / Network Camera series products, you must have the root user password for each of the products. 3.
setting each camera, a warning window will pop up to warn you that all recording processes will be stopped. 3.4.1 The Layout of the Configuration 3B In this section, we discuss the local settings of the connection and the functional configurations of each camera. If you are interested in the remote settings for each camera, you can refer to each Video Server / Network Camera series product’s user’s manual that was shipped with the hardware.
3.4.2 Local Settings In the local settings, as shown in Figure 3-4, there are three main functions: X X History Insert camera Delete camera Figure 3-4 Local Settings Insert – This allows the user to insert a remote Video Server / Network Camera series product to the camera list. Click on the “Insert” button, an “Insert New Channel” dialog will pop up, as shown inFigure 3-5.
The selected camera will be deleted. Figure 3-6 Delete a camera to the list History – Clicking on the “History” button pops up a camera history list that shows the latest cameras that has been inserted into the camera list. The list could contain up to 16 entries. When you click on one of the cameras in the history list, the camera will be inserted into the camera list. The history list is shown in Figure 3-7. X X Historical camera list Figure 3-7 Popup historical camera list .
3.4.3 Alert Settings and Recording Settings 35B Figure 3-8 Alert Settings and Recording Settings Alert Settings: These settings guide this program how to handle motion detection, digital input alerts, video loss and remote alert. 9 Enable motion detect － With this checkbox checked, the program will trigger the alert sound (specified in “3.5 Global Settings \ Alert Sound”) if motion is detected for the specified channel.
Alert sound will be played on remote side if the option is enabled, alert sound has been configured and the one of the above three alerts (motion/digital/video loss) triggered. NOTE: Above items may be disabled when the connected server doesn’t support the features. Recording Settings: 9 Name － If you want to specify your own location name, specify it in this field. Otherwise, leave this field with the default value “”.
Step 1: Step 2: Press left mouse button at the gray index field. Move mouse to where you want to move and then release the mouse button. Then Video 1 will be moved to the 10th row. Figure 3-9 Change the Sequence of the Connected Camera 3.4.5 Saving the Changes 37B Once you have clicked on the “Save” button in the bottom left corner of this window, the changes for all camera configurations will be saved and validated immediately in this IP surveillance system.
Figure 3-10 Global Settings You can activate the global setting window from “Configuration Menu \ Global Settings...” as shown in Figure 3-10. X X ATTENTION: A warning window will pop up to alert you that all recording processes will be stopped when activating the global setting window.
9 Snapshot directory － This is the directory for storing the snapshots in *.bmp format from channels as shown in Figure 3-11. X 9 X Recording directory － This is the directory for storing the recorded media data from remote channels. 9 Scheduler directory － This is the directory for storing the default and user-customized plots for the recording schedule of each channel.
Check here to enable proxy server Set the port Check here to enable IP filter Add an IP address to list Enter IP address here to add Delete an IP Address from list IP address list Figure 3-12 Internet Proxy Settings Backup Settings: In this setting, you can select the directory, maybe a remote hard disk, for the media database backup; as well as the backup size of your backup media. Backup Location Select: This window provides the settings for backup and the deletion of media datamedia database.
Figure 3-13 Network Account Drive settings NOTE: The network account must be able to login the machine that runs the application (ST3402) and also the machine that provides the network drive. You can also specify the Host Name or IP to enable network account settings. 3.6 Display & UI Settings 15B Options of video display and alert settings can be modify in Display & UI Settings dialog. Recording and monitoring can be continued when you open this dialog.
Figure 3-15 Display & UI Settings Window Local Alert Settings: You can load custom *.wav file for the sound of alert triggering. You can also listen to the sample of the chosen sound file by clicking on the “Play” button (the button with black right arrow). Remote Alert Settings: As local alert settings, you can load *.wav file for the sound of alert triggering and the sound will be played on the remote side. NOTE: If user doesn’t enable alert settings that described in section 3.4.
NOTE: You must select the input signal format according to the camera type or CCD module type that is connected to the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product, regardless of the power line connected is 50 or 60 Hz. Display Options: In the video displaying frame of each channel, there are two status bars associated with it. On the upper side, the status contains “Camera location” and “the time of the remote site”. On the lower side, the status includes “Connection time” and “Recording time”.
Figure 3-17 Cursor change to click on image mode 9 Enable PTZ hot key － When the option is enabled, user can control PTZ camera by using keyboard.
3.7 Using Monitor Tool 16B This section depicts methods of manipulating the Monitor tool. 3.7.1 Connection of the Video Server / Network Camera Series 38B Channel: Once you have connected a Video Server / Network Camera series product, you can drag and drop the camera to the video area. As for the channel area shown in Figure 3-18, if you have not set up the X X camera for the channel, the color of the channel number will be gray.
There is a unique light signal associated with each channel number. It indicates the status of the dedicated channel, as listed below. 9 Off (Black) The channel is not connected with any remote Video Server / Network Camera series product. 9 Green The green light means the Video Server / Network Camera series product associated with this channel number is connected, and the video is being monitored in the video area.
Click to invoke authentication window Figure 3-20 Invoke Authentication Window Re-input correct password to reconnect. Press button to reconnect. Figure 3-21 Authentication Window NOTE: The hint will also be popped up when user changes login password in IE. Incorrect Settings– If the option of “Apply to new device” doesn’t be enabled, the hint of “Incorrect Settings” will be popped up when the settings (model A) that were configured in Camera Configuration window (section 3.
If the connecting device is not supported Video Server / Network Camera series product (such as PC or another network device), the hint of “Unknown Type” will be popped up. Please check what device is assigned the specified IP address and change to supported Video Server / Network Camera series product. The hint is shown in Figure 3-23. X X Figure 3-23 The Hint of Unknown Type ATTENTION: The above three cases will occur if those two models A and B are set as the same IP address.
Mouse cursor Location hint Display frame Channel number Figure 3-24 Mouse Cursor on the Channel Number Step 2: Press and hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse cursor to the displaying frame in the video area, as shown in Figure 3-25. Note that the cursor will be changed according to the area indicating whether the selection can be dropped there.
this case, it should be the video area), and then release the mouse button. In each layout, each channel is corresponding to one and only one displaying frame in the video area, as shown in Figure 3-26. Therefore, the drag and drop from the channel number to the displaying frame can be treated as “exchange of channels in the displaying frames”. That means whatever video is on the newly selected channel will replace the one on the current display frame.
Cursor changed, video shown. Empty video box Figure 3-26 Showing Video on the Displaying Frame 3.7.1.2 Close the channel in displaying frame 68B This section discusses how to close the video change in the display frame. Step 1: Move the mouse cursor to the display frame associated with the channel you want to close. Step 2: The cursor will turn into a hand-shaped icon when it is moved to the display frame. Press and hold with the left mouse button.
Press and hold mouse button here. Move mouse cursor here, and then release mouse button here. Figure 3-27 Close the Channel NOTE: Even the channel is closed for current layout. The network connection is still connected. The reason to keep the connection is that if the connection is closed, it is not possible for Monitor to judge if any event is triggered. 3.7.2 The Layout 39B There are six kinds of layouts shown in Figure 3-28 for displaying frames in the Monitor tool.
4 cameras layout 1 camera layout 6 cameras layout Figure 3-28 Layout of the 9 cameras layout Monitor tool 16 cameras layout cameras Whether you choose the one-camera 13 layout or layout the four-camera layout, the “Page up” and “Page down” buttons will be shown in the bottom-left corner of the video area. You can use these two buttons to switch the pages, as shown in Figure 3-29. Use the “Page Up” and “Page Down” key in keyboard could also swith the page.
Figure 3-30, double-click on the display frame associated with the dedicated channel in the video area. You will see the size of the display frame is the same as the one-camera layout. As shown in Figure 3-31, clicking on the “Back” button in the upper-left corner of the video area will switch to the previous selected multi-camera layout. The position for each channel in any layout will be kept for the next time when the layout is selected again for monitoring.
Back to previous layout Figure 3-31 Single View Mode When in Multi-camera Layout Input/Output Control Tools PTZ Control Talk Control Alert Message Digital Input / Digital Output Figure 3-32 Input/Output Control Tool This application software provides another three tools, shown in Figure 3-32, in the bottom-left corner, for controlling the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product of the associated channel.
Digital Output) control, Alert Message receiver and Talk control. 3.7.2.1 PTZ Control 69B The PTZ (Pan / Tilt / Zoom) tool is shown in Figure 3-33. If the remote Video Server/ Network Camera series product associated with the selected channel is connected with a PTZ enabled camera, this PTZ control tool will be activated. You can do PTZ operations, as well as going to the preset location set by the previously user-defined position.
Digital input is low Digital input is high Set digital output to LOW Set digital output to HIGH No Connection Figure 3-34 DI/DO Control The color of the DI status is depicted as follows: 9 OFF When the color of the channel number is gray, that means this channel is not connected to any remote Video Server / Network Camera series product. 9 Red The channel number turns red indicating the DI of the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product associated with the selected channel is in high level.
Figure 3-35 Alert Message If you select the check box for “Enable Motion Detect”, “Enable Digital Input” or “Enable Video loss” in the path “Configuration Menu \ Camera Configurations \ Alert Settings”, the alert message will show in the window as shown in; refer to “Alert Settings” in Section 3.4.3. An alert message appears in this window when an alert is triggered by user defined motion detection or a digital input level change.
Talking Talk available No connection Talk unavailable Talk volume setting Figure 3-36 Talk Control 9 Talk Available When the connected Video Server / Network Camera series product supports the feature of 2-way audio, talk with remote side is available. User can click the button to establish talk channel. When the channel is established, the state will enter to talking and user can talk with remote side by microphone.
3.7.3 Backup 40B Figure 3-37 the Process of Backup Operation “Backup” allow you to copy the recorded media data to another media according to the location and the size you have selected. You can refer to Section 3.5 “Configuration Menu \ Global Settings \ Backup Settings” for more details on backup settings. From the backed up media data in the media, you can duplicate the backup-data to any removable device, such as CD-ROM, ZIP disk, DVD-RAM, or tape, manually.
Configuration Menu Minimize Quit Full Screen Lock Stop Alert Sound 2B Figure 3-39 Miscellaneous functions 3.7.5 Miscellaneous Functions This section describes other miscellaneous functions represented by small icons in this application software, as shown in Figure 3-39. These functions can be applied regardless of which is the currently focused channel. These functions are each described below. X X Quit Clicking on this button closes this application software with the latest saved settings.
Stop Alert Sound Whenever an alert is triggered, an alarm will sound if it was set up. You can click this button to stop the alarm. It will also switch the I/O Control Tool to the Alert Message Tool, as depicted in Section 3.7.2.3, and automatically shows the alert messages. X X Configuration Menu This menu includes Camera Configuration, Global Settings, Scheduler, Backup, and About options.
3.7.6 Common Control Functions 43B Stop Record Volume Record Printer Trashcan Snapshot Figure 3-40 Common Control Functions This section describes other Common control functions, respresented by small icons, as shown in Figure 3-40. These functions can only be applied to the focused channels. These functions are each described below. X X Volume Clicking on this button to adjust the audio volume when monitoring provided the camera supports audio.
refer to Section 3.5 for details. X X Trashcan You can drap and drop the channel to the Trashcan. This does not close the video connection with the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product. But the display for the channel in current layout will be removed. You can apply Volume, Record, Stop record, Printer, and Snapshot to several cameras simultaneously. See Section 3.7.7. 3.7.7 Multiple Focus 4B Some functions can be applied to more than one camera simultaneously.
Chapter 4 Scheduling 3B The Scheduling tool helps the user to schedule the time to record the media stream of the selected channels from the remote Video Server / Network Camera series product. With both the graphic user interface and time period selection options, you can easily schedule each channel.
4.2 The Layout and Functionalities 18B In this section, the layout and the functionalities of the Scheduling tool are depicted in detail. 4.2.1 Introduction 47B Figure 4-2 shows the layout of the Scheduling tool’s components. X X 1 2 3 4 Figure 4-2 Overview of the Scheduling Tool The layout is roughly divided into 4 parts: Channel Selection Area: It provides the IP addresses and location information of the connected channel.
It consists of day time-line, week time-line, begin time selector, end time selector, and event mode settings. Secondary Schedule: It consists of event mode settings. Operation Buttons: It contains operation buttons for the user to fine tune the edited schedule-scheme of the selected channel, and close the Scheduling tool window. These four parts will later be described in detail. 4.2.
4.2.3 The Schedule Scheme operations 49B There are six related buttons, “Load…”, “Undo”, “Clear”, “Save”, “Save as…” and “Close” for handling the scheduling schemes. These are shown in Figure 4-4. X X Figure 4-4 Operations for the Schedule Scheme Manipulation Load… This button is used for loading other pre-edited schedule schemes from the specified directory. Note that you will need to save the current-edited settings before applying this function. Otherwise, any editing changes will be lost.
You can make your own schedule scheme by plotting markers in all time-lines. These two time lines are associated with each other. That is, if you make changes in one time-line, the corresponding changes will be applied, in scale, to the other time-lines in the same schedule scheme. 4.3.1.1 Week Time-Line 73B Figure 4-5 shows the Week time-line. It includes the time-line, scheduling information, and the selected day of the week. X X Selected day Figure 4-5 Week Time-line 4.3.1.
the time picker that will be described in section 4.3.2 automatically. 4.3.1.4 Marking/Unmarking the Recording Time 76B You only need one click on the left mouse button to mark the time on this time-line. The operating method for the hour time-line is the same as that of the week time-lines. Please refer to Section 4.3.1.1 for details. X X 4.3.2 Schedule with Time Picker 51B 4.3.2.
Apply Period picker Figure 4-9 Period Picker, Apply button and Erase button 4-64 Erase
4.3.3 Schedule in event mode 52B You can select to record in Event mode or Continuous mode by the Schedule mode selector as shown in Figure 4-10. There are two types of event recording, please refer to Section 4.3.3.1 and Section 4.3.3.2 for more information. X X X X X X Figure 4-10 Schedule Mode Selector 4.3.3.1 Motion detection 79B Figure 4-11 Motion Detection Selector Figure 4-11 shows the window selection you want to record when motion detection is triggered. X X 4.3.3.
continuously according to the schedule set up by the user. 4.4 Secondary Schedule 20B Secondary schedule is the time that is outside the Primary schedule. 4.4.1 Schedule modes 54B Figure 4-13 Secondary Schedule Mode Selector As shown in Figure 4-13, there are three selections in the Secondary schedule mode selector: Disable, Event mode, and Continuous mode. You can disable the Secondary schedule, choose the Event mode or choose the Continuous mode.
Chapter 5 Playback 4B 5.1 Features of Playback 21B The Playback program of this application software is a very powerful yet convenient and user-friendly tool the user can use in browsing the recorded media datamedia database. It has two display modes (normal display mode and event preview mode) and three playback methods (full range, time period, and events preview). There are several main tools consisting of special features in this Playback tool. These tools are depicted as follow.
BMP file snapshot Output to printer directly Volume control System control tools: Lock Program System settings Minimize Miscellaneous tools: Location selector Alert window selector 5.2 Logging In 2B The authentication mechanism is implemented in Launcher. If the user has passed authentication in Launcher, Playback can be invoked without further authentication. Otherwise, Authentication diglog of Launcher will pop up and the user must pass authentication in order to use Playback.
5.3 Layout 23B Area Selection Indicator Display Area Control Area Pull Bar Histogram Area Status Area Figure 5-1 Playback Main Window Once you have successfully logged in to the Playback system, the main window appears at the top of the screen and the display resolution will be changed to 1024x768 automatically, if the current resolution is less. As shown in Figure 5-1, there are four main areas in this window: Display area, Histogram area, Control area, and Status area.
size by using the Display Adjustment Tool and choose playback method by using the Play Control Tool. Playback method Display adjustment tool Figure 5-2 Display By Time (Normal Display Mode) As shown in Figure 5-3, there are three kinds of information (loaction name, remote time and original recording size) that are displayed on the upper and lower bars respectively.
5.3.1.2 Histogram Area 82B The Histogram is an interactive control. In the control, you can display events’ time domain location and the percentage of motion. You can also select a group of events or a specific period, from the Histogram Area. 5.3.1.3 Control Area 83B The Control Area contains most of the control selections and toolboxes you need to browse the database, except Page Control.
format, and exporting file name. 5.3.2 Indicators 56B 5.3.2.1 Area Selection Indicator 85B As shown in Figure 5-1, the Display Area is surrounded by a blue rectangle. This is the Area Selection Indicator. This can be set to indicate either the Display Area or the Histogram Area. Move your mouse cursor to the area you want to select. When you have selected the Display Area, the Display Adjustment Tool will appear in the control area.
Lock Windows Settings Minimize Exit Figure 5-5 System Control Tool Database location The most important item in the settings dialog is the database path setting. You must set it to the directory that contains the surveillance database to make the program to work properly. AVI files location This sets the storing directory when you export AVI files. The exported AVI files will be stored in a sub-directory under the directory you have chosen here.
Figure 5-6 Settings Dialog AVI Compression Mode We use only 24 bits color depth to export the AVI file in this mode. In the AVI compression mode selection, you can select one of the compression methods (both video and audio) that your computer supports to export the AVI file. The compression methods may be different from computer to computer due to different compression methods in different computer installations. Modulation Mode The modulation mode decides the on-screen video size.
Control Panel Position This provides a convenient way to change the position of the control area, either to to the left or right side of the main window, according to your preference. Time Format There are two kinds of time format (12-hour / 24-hour) that can be selected by user to determine the time format in the upper status bar of display area. Snapshot Format Two formats (.jpg and .bmp) can be selected by user to determine the file format of snapshot. 5.
Period Start Time Label Period End Time Label Histogram Area Figure 5-7 Normal Display Mode Under the Normal display (single frame) mode, you can use all the tools the Playback program provides except the Page control. In this mode, the two labels under the Pull Bar show the individual starting and ending time of the interval (as shown in Figure 5-7). X X 5.5.
clicking on the Pull Bar in the same x-axis position. That means the Playback system will be shifted to the appointed time and shows the video in the displaying frame. The dark regions in the histogram area means there is no media data existed in these intervals. If you click on these regions, a warning message will pop up. 5.6 Preview (Multiple Frame) Mode 26B You can enter the event Preview mode only if you have changed the playback method selector to “Events Preview”.
Page Status Page Up Displayed Event Number Page Down Histogram Area Total Event Count Figure 5-9 Preview Mode 5.6.1 Histogram Area 59B The Histogram Area in the event Preview mode shows the event occuring time and the percentage of the detected motion with red bars. It also indicates the current displayed events with green bars and the selected event with blue bars. If you want to access the Histogram Area, you must change the area selection indicator to the Histogram Area.
have selected. The dark regions means there is no video sequence existed in these intervals. If you click on these regions, a warning dialog will pop up. 5.6.2 Histogram Legend 60B Figure 5-11 Legend of the Histogram Figure 5-11 shows the legends corresponding to the colors represented in the histogram. You can call up this diagram by clicking on the Legend button. X X 5.7 Using Tools 27B This section discusses the method of how to use the tools in the control area, as shown in Figure 5-1. X X 5.7.
Figure 5-12 Selector Tools 5.7.1.1 Location Selector 87B The Location Selector lets you select the camera you want to view from (refer to Figure 5-12). The location information is the same as the location name associated with the dedicated channel in the Monitor program. If there are more than one time segments in the same location, another dialog will appear (as shown in Figure 5-13). You must select an interval in that dialog.
will be shown. 5.7.1.3 Playback Method Selector 89B Full Range If you select this method, the database will be displayed from the beginning to the end of this location. Any change in the period selector will have no effect unless you change this selector to “Time Period”. Time Period If you change the playback method to “Time Period”, you can modify the start and end times in the period selector. When you click on the “Play” button in the Jog Dial, the period you have selected will be displayed.
Pause/Resume Speed Indicator Play from beginning Step Forward Stop Figure 5-14 Jog Dial Play from Beginning The “Play” button we support here is an intelligent user-interface. The functionality of this button can vary to fit different circumstances. In the Normal display mode, click on the “Play” button restarts the displaying video sequence. In the Preview mode, if you do not change the data of the period selector, clicking on this button restarts the selected displaying frame.
clockwise direction. To decrease playing speed, move it in the counterclockwise direction. Current speed you are set at will be shown in the second column of the status area. NOTE: You can press Ctrl key and the corresponding button introduced above simultaneously to stop/pause/resume/play all events in event preview mode. 5.7.3 Display Adjustment Toolbox 63B When you move the mouse cursor over to the displaying area, the display adjustment toolbox will appear.
5.7.3.3 Full Screen When you click on the “Full Screen” button, the video sequence will be enlarged to fill up the entire screen instantly. You can double-click on the mouse button in any area on the screen, or press the “ESC” key to return to the original state. 5.7.4 Searching Range Adjustment Toolbox 64B When you move the mouse cursor over to the Histogram Area, the Searching Range Adjustment Toolbox will appear in the same position as that of the Display Adjustment Toolbox.
newly defined start time. 5.7.4.3 Full Range 96B Clicking on the “Full Range” button would yield the same effect as you would in the Playback Method. 5.7.5 Toolbox 65B In our playback program, you can check the database and you can export the database to other media. Using the toolbox, you can export the database into other more portable formats, such as AVI file, bitmap file, or paper (hard-copy). You can also use Windows media player or other programs to browse the exporting data.
selected through the frame selection indicator. The size of the bitmap will be the same as the source image you have selected. The exported bitmap filename will be generated automatically and be listed in the fourth column of the status area. If you want to change the bitmap file output directory, you can go to the Settings window as we have described in Section 5.4 under “Settings”. X X X X 5.7.5.3 Print 9B When you click on the “Print” button, a printing dialog will appear.
5.7.6.1 Lock Program 10B If you are to be away from your computer, for security concerns, we suggest you lock the Playback program. You can simply click on the “Lock Window” button to lock the main window. Once this is invoked, the main window will be hidden and the login dialog will appear (as shown in Figure 2-2). To return to the main window, you need to re-enter the root’s password or the password of the user who locked the application. X X 5.7.6.
