Recording Video; Panic Recording; Playing Recorded Video; Figure 71 - Select Playback Camera Menu - Eneo DLR4B-08/500DV Operating Instructions Manual

Recording Video

Once you have installed the DVR following the instructions in Chapter 2 — Installation, it is ready to record. The DVR
will start recording based on the settings you made in the Record setup screen. See Chapter3 — Configuration.
Recycle On or Recycle Off. The factory default is Recycle On. It does this by recording over the oldest video once
the hard disk is full. Setting the DVR to Recycle Off causes it to stop recording once the hard disk is full.
Standard (CIF), High (Half D1) or Very High (D1). The factory default resolution is Standard. When set to Standard,
the DVR has a maximum recording speed of 480 ips. When set to High, the DVR has a maximum recording speed of
240 ips. When set to Very High, the DVR has a maximum recording speed of 120 ips.
Although you will be able to record without changing the unit from its original factory settings, you will want to take
advantages of the DVR's many tools. See Chapter 3 — Configuration for detailed descriptions of the recording mode
options.

Panic Recording

Selecting (Panic) in the Live Monitoring menu or pressing the
and selecting or pressing the button again stops panic recording. If you set the Panic Recording Duration in the
Panic Record setup screen, panic recording will stop automatically according to the preset duration as long as
not selected or the button is not pressed.
PANIC
NOTE: When the DVR is not in the Recycle mode and all available storage space has been used, panic recording
will not operate.

Playing Recorded Video

If a user who has Search authority logs into the system, the user can view recorded image. Once video has been recorded,
you can view it by pressing the
The DVR supports the Triplex function: monitoring, recording and playing back at the same time. Pressing the
button when in one of the multi-view formats enters the Triplex mode and displays the Select Playback Camera menu.
Selecting All Channels plays back video of all cameras. The DVR maintains the same display format
as it does in the live mode except for the PIP format. You can also change the screen layout in the same
way as you do in the live mode.
Selecting the camera number under Triplex enters the Triplex mode and plays back video of the selected
camera. When in the single-screen display format, the camera currently displayed on the screen will
be selected and when in the PIP display format, the camera displayed on the PIP screen will be selected
for the search channel. During the Triplex mode, the DVR maintains the same display format as it does
in the live mode. A red outline surrounding the video and the camera title indicates the search channel.
While in the Triplex Mode, the DVR continues recording cameras as they were set up in the recording
schedule. Also, live monitoring will continue except for the camera that has been selected for playback.
Figure 71 — Select Playback Camera menu.
When playing video for the first time, the DVR will display the most recent image. When playing video subsequent
times, the DVR will start playing video from the last recalled image.
NOTE: Only the administrator and users with Covert Camera View authority can view video from covert cameras.
The covert cameras in the playback mode are determined by the current camera settings.
button.
PLAYBACK
button starts panic recording of all cameras,
PANIC
Digital Video Recorder
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