Summary of Contents for American Dynamics EDVR Calculator
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EDVR EDVR Calculator User Guide Version 1.0 Part Number 8200-0826-01 AO...
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EDVR Calculator User Guide Table of Contents Introduction ..........................4 The Calculator Utility ........................5 General Information ....................... 5 Known Limitations........................5 How To Read The Screen ..................... 6 Example - Scenario 1 ......................11 Example - Scenario 2 ......................14 Understanding Alarm Record Rate and Alarm Record Mode..........17 Alarm Record Rate ......................
EDVR Calculator User Guide Introduction The Calculator utility is a companion for American Dynamic’s Embedded Digital Video Recorder (EDVR). The purpose of this utility is to assist users in estimating how much record time is attainable in their EDVR systems with a known hard disk drive (HDD) size. It can also be used to estimate how much hard drive space is needed for a target recording duration.
One quality setting applies to EDVR provides options to set each channel’s record quality at 4 all channels. different levels of recording image; the EDVR Calculator v1.03 only supports one global setting of record quality. Under a special condition, the...
EDVR Calculator User Guide Example - Scenario 1 I have a system of 4 cameras on NTSC and no audio. I have the following setup: Normal record at 5 IPS Schedule1 for 12 hr of recording on alarm trigger at alarm record rate 5 IPS ...
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EDVR Calculator User Guide Schedule1 Alarm Record Mode: Estimate HD space needed for 12 hours of alarm recording at 50% of the time, or 6 hours (continued from the last section).
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EDVR Calculator User Guide Schedule1 Normal Record Mode: Estimate HD space needed for the other 50% of time (6 hours) when alarm is off (continued from the last section). Compute HD space needed during 24 hours from steps 1–3 above: HD space = (6 + 3 + 3 +/- 0.7) GB...
EDVR Calculator User Guide Example - Scenario 2 Everything is set up the same way as Scenario 1 except that Schedule1 alarms are all set to Exclusive mode. How do I do the calculation now? Normal Record Mode: Estimate HD space needed for 12 hours of normal recording.
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EDVR Calculator User Guide Schedule1 Alarm Record Mode: Estimate HD space needed for 12 hours of alarm recording at 50% of the time, or 6 hours (continued from the last section).
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EDVR Calculator User Guide Schedule1 Normal Record Mode: Estimate HD space needed for the other 50% of time (6 hours) when alarm is off (continued from the last section). Compute HD space needed during 24 hours from steps 1–3 above: HD space = (6 + 12 + 3 +/- 1.1) GB...
EDVR Calculator User Guide Understanding Alarm Record Rate and Alarm Record Mode Alarm Record Rate Please see 4. Alarm Record Rate, on page 48 of the EDVR Installation and Operation Guide v1.54 (or later). IOGs of earlier releases do not contain adequate information.
EDVR Calculator User Guide The Computation Algorithm Normal Record Mode Alarm Record Mode Alarm Camera: Cameras are in the alarm state. Non-Alarm Camera: Cameras are not in alarm state. If CH1~CH16 are set to the same Alarm Record Mode, the expected record rate can be...
EDVR Calculator User Guide Possible Recording Time Tables for EDVR v1.44A The quality of each image will lead to a range of picture sizes, depending on the quality of the camera and the image content. The ranges are: BEST: 38K ~ 42K ...
EDVR Calculator User Guide Possible Recording Time Tables for EDVR v1.53A and Later The quality of each image will lead to a range of picture sizes, depending on the quality of the camera and the image content. The ranges are: ...