Contents Overlook ................ 3 Video Recorder’s Appearance ........5 Technical Characteristics ..........6 Operating the Recorder ..........8 Working with Memory Cards ........20 Storage format of the recordings on the card ..21 View Video Records ........... 21 Battery Charging ............27 In Box ................
The Recorder provides the opportunity to insert up to 4 memory cards for both parallel and alternate recording. Specifications The MAVR-H264x4 TFT Video Recorder has the following specifications: • Recording of video signal either from an external source or from the built-in video camera (H.264) in AVC format, providing...
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• Option to set video signal parameters (brightness, contrast, saturation, colour); • Recording of audio signal either from an external sound source (MF input) or from built-in microphones in AAC format (mono or stereo); • Manual or automatic adjustment of the amplification of audio channels;...
Video Recorder’s Appearance «On-Off» Switch; Connector for master card with LED indicator; picture 1 Touch screen; Connector for memory card with LED indicator; Right Microphone; Video Sensor; Left Microphone; Connector for “5V” external power supply; Connector for “VD” external devices; Connector for “MF”...
Technical Characteristics Parameter value Parameter Video Parameters Resolution of built-in video camera 640х480 720х480 (NTSC) Video input resolution 720x576 (PAL, SECAM) 160х120, 320х240, 640х480 (built-in video camera); 180x120, 360x240, 720x480 Frame size of video stream (NTSC); 180x144, 360x288, 720x576 (PAL, SECAM) Frames per second 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 30 Video compression standard...
Operating the Recorder Getting Started • Launch the manager program by copying it onto the PC; • Insert memory card into the card reader; • At the time the program was launched select “Settings”, press the button “Setup” and set up: a.
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Display Calibration For smooth operation of the Recorder perform calibration before starting. To do this click on Settings – System – Display calibration. By a thin object click on the central four-headed arrow pointer on the screen. Attention: don’t use any writing materials – the screen can get deteriorated.
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Arrow indicator moved from memory card onto the other by clicking on the corresponding button. The indicator moves through inserted memory cards. It takes some time to scan the card. Scanning time picture 3 depends on the card’s scanning process icon capacity and the number of recordings stored there.
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Selecting video source to record 1. Video source can be selected using menu, and in recording screen; 2. If external video source is selected, but the signal does not flow to the video input of the recorder, then the message appears “No picture 4 Signal”.
Normal Recording 1. After pressing the “Recording” button and selecting the card you should wait for it to be ready (the arrow disappears within the card symbol). You can then click on the “Rec” button (the button with a red circle); 2.
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Starting the Recorder by Timer 1. To control recording according to schedule, you can use up to 10 timers 2. Each of the timers can be individually enabled or disabled; 3. Each of the timers has settings for day of the week, date and activation time, record duration after activation, and operation mode;...
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Recording activated by the Remote Control 1. Recording activated by the remote control is similar to timer recording. The only difference is that the remote control has higher priority than the button on the screen, so to stop recording use either remote control or quit the recording screen; 2.
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recorded onto the card. In this case the screen displays “Waiting”; 2. Recording starts as the event occurs (motion in the frame with the motion detector turned on, or the sound level above the specified threshold with the VAS system activated); 3.
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For example, if the duration of the prehistory was set to be 5 minutes, then its actual duration will range from 5 minutes to 5 minutes 59 seconds; 5. After one of the above events has been detected recording continues as before, but the beginning of the recording is not erased.
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All-card linear Recording if there is no free memory on the card the next card is selected. If the next card has no free space recording stops. You can’t start a new recording while there isn’t free memory on the current card. All-card circular recording When there is no more free memory space on the selected card, recording continues over the oldest data on this card.
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space on any of the cards, recording continues over the oldest data on this card. When there is only the current recording on the card the next pair of cards is selected. You can start a new recording at no free memory on the card. f.
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Record Mode This mode saves data onto memory card The Recorder switches to Record mode when: • Rec button on touch screen is pressed • control signal appears from remote-control board (contact “remote” of “VD” connector) • the Recorder starts automatically (VAS system, motion detector) •...
Working with Memory Cards Memory card with service files and file with settings for the Recorder (for preparing this card see “Preparing for work”) must be inserted into the slot (position 2) (see Figure 1 “Appearance” at p.3) marked on the case by an icon –SD-. The other slots marked by SD icon. Each time memory card is inserted into the slot (Position 2) or the Recorder quits Standby Mode (when powered from external power source the Recorder doesn’t switch to Standby Mode) the Recorder...
Storage format of the recordings on the card 1. Each recording is stored on the card in a separate folder. The folder name contains the order number of the recording (after letter R), creation date (after letter D, format YYMMDD) and creation time (the letter T, HHMMSS format);...
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with 5.2.0 version) 1. It is possible to combine several files that make up the recording in one file (or several, depending on size) using the manager program. Data on the card remain unchanged. • a. Insert the card into the card reader; •...
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If at this point the card has not been scanned to the end, playback will not begin immediately; at the bottom of the screen pause buttons and navigation buttons appear (slow and fast playback in forward and reverse direction): picture 6 1.
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a. In pause mode: 1 Rewind to the nearest base frame; 2 -Step to previous frame; 3 -Switch to playback mode; 4 One frame forward; 5 Fast forward to the nearest base frame. 1. In Playback mode volume control is available; 2.
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Setting the Recorder (in Menu) After the button “Setting” has been pressed the screen reads the Menu with the Recorder’s settings: DATE VOLUME TIME RECORD VIDEO POWER SOUND SYSTEM In the Menu, you can change the Recorder’s settings using the buttons on the touch screen.
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Problems that can occur when recording Overflow of internal data buffer 1. Internal data buffer is used to store the encoded video and audio data before writing them onto the memory card. The buffer can store up to 10 seconds of video and audio; 2.
Battery Charging To charge the rechargeable battery, do the following: • connect power adapter (which is on delivery set) to the “5V” connector (see Figure “Appearance” at p.4), • connect network adapter to AC power (voltage 220V). Full charging takes about hours.
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Appendix 1. Recorder Menu of Settings Settings Date • date (fields to insert values date/month/year) Time • time (fields to insert values hours/minutes) Misc. Settings • GPS time • • time zone (from -12 to +12 hours) Video • Source (fields to insert values BUILT-IN CAMERA/VIDEO INPUT/DIGITAL INPUT) Built-in camera •...
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• Frame size (fields to insert values from 1:4 to 1:1 or Custom) • bitrate (from 64 to 2048 Kbps) • frames per second (from 1 to 30 FPS) Video Input (PAL) • Frame size (fields to insert values from 1:4 to 1:1 or Custom) •...
GPS power supply • Mode (fields to insert values OFF/Ext Source/ON) System • Default settings Display calibration • four-headed arrow pointer to calibrate display Firmware • Version • Date • Serial N • Upgrade software Appendix 2 Base diagram of the connectors Connector «VD»...
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Appendix 3 Legend Keys - Go back to the previous level - Attention icon - Built-in camera OFF - Built-in camera connected - Digital input OFF - Digital input connected - Analogue input OFF - Analogue input connected - Four-headed arrow pointer to calibrate display - Free memory card - Full memory card - Memory card mistake...
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