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TDR-3604R Digital Recording System Installation and Operation Manual TATUNG COMPANY OF AMERICA. INC 2850 El Presidio St., LONG BEACH CA 90810 USA Tel: 310-637-2105 FAX: 310-632-3588 www.tatungusa.com...
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: Revisions Version Date Revisions B4.00 Jul/07 First Released B5.00 Apr/08 After 4 channels playback B6.00 Apr/08 Sales Review B7.00 Sep/08 After Engineer Review (in red) B8.00 Sep/08 After calendar search/Save Button B9.00 Jan/09 New set of 98 DVRs B10.00 Mar/10 Recommendation/authentication...
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: PRECAUTIONS WARNING To prevent fire or shock hazard, do not expose this unit to rain or moisture. Do not block ventilation openings. Do not place anything on top of the unit that might spill or fall into it.
The TRIVIEW TDR-3604R Embedded Recording System uses the super high speed DSP (digital signal processing) as the core of its image handling to reach a recording speed of 30fps/channel (NTSC) or 25fps/channel (PAL).
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 2. System Installation 2.1 Front Panel: 17 16 15 13 12 11 10 Removable Primary HDD Warning LED Removable Secondary HDD Speaker LED Right Speaker window Play LED USB Ports Record LED Power Key Power LED Backup Button Enter/Pause Button...
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 2.2 Rear Panel: Note: Do not turn this unit on before all the connections are complete. Read the instruction manual of the unit carefully. Make sure each unit is connected properly as faulty connection may result in damage to the unit. ...
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 2.3 Hard drive installation, replacement and setup: (IDE Hard drive housing may come in different kind), also SATA HDD is also available. If using two drives, choose two identical hard drives. If two hard drives are to be installed, the hard drive jumpers need to be set to master for the one in the left housing and slave for the hard drive in the right housing.
Control Panel Buttons and their functions: There are five modes for TDR-3604R: Setup, Record/Live View, Playback, Alarm log Playback, and Backup Modes. The function and definition of each button for each mode will be defined in the following chapters.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 3. System Setup Note: Enter/Pause Please use to select submenus and press to confirm the selection. Please use to select fields. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower to increase/decrease the value, or use the number buttons Enter/Pause “0 to 9” to change the value directly and press the to accept.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 3.1 Setup mode button definition: Buttons Button Name Button definitions in the SETUP MODE Decr/Slower Decrease button Decrease the value. Incr/Faster Increase button Increase the value. Enter/Pause Enter or Pause Press to confirm the selection. Record Button Activate recording after recording has been stopped.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 3.2 Changing the setting in the setup menu Menu Press the button to enter the setup page. SETUP 080925 H81 MR TIME/DISPLAY CAMERA ALARM SYSTEM NETWORK PROGRAM ADVANCE . . . 3.2.1 TIME/DISPLAY Setup: Note: In order to change the Date, Time, or Time Zone, recording needs to be stopped first.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: TIME Setup: 1. Select the “TIME” submenu and confirm the selection. 2. Use to shift and select Hour/Minute/Second field. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 3. Use to increase/decrease the value or use the number buttons “0 to 9” to change the value. Enter/Pause Press the to accept.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: CAMERA NAME Setup: Turns the camera name display ON/OFF. 1. Select the “CAMERA NAME” submenu and confirm the selection. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 2. Use to turn it ON/OFF. Enter/Pause Press the to accept. MAIN + SUB DISPLAY and NTP CLOCK Setup: Turn them ON/OFF. 1.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 3.2.2 CAMERA Setup: Select “CAMERA” and confirm the selection. The CAMERA SETUP MENU will display. Choose Camera number (1-4) by pressing SETUP : 080925 H81 MR CAMERA SETUP: CAMERA 1 TIME/DISPLAY CAMERA NAME CH1----------- CAMERA ENABLE (ON/OFF)
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: AUDIO Setup: 1. Select “AUDIO” submenu. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 2. Use to turn it ON/OFF. Enter/Pause 3. Press the to accept. DISPLAY setup: 1. Select “DISPLAY” submenu. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 2. Use to turn it ON/OFF. Enter/Pause 3.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: SATURATION Setup: 1. Select “SATURATION” submenu. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 2. Use to change the value or use “0-9” buttons to input (0 to 255). Enter/Pause 3. Press the to accept. HUE Setup: 1. Select “HUE” submenu. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 2.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 3.2.3 ALARM Setup Select “ALARM” and confirm the selection. The ALARM SETUP MENU will display. Choose the Camera number (1-4) by pressing button to change the camera. ALARM SETUP CAMERA1-4 SETUP : 080925 H81 MR VIDEO LOSS CHECK (ON/OFF) TIME/DISPLAY MOTION DETECTION (OFF/1-16)
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: ALARM SOUND Setup: 1. Select “ALARM SOUND” submenu. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 2. Use to turn it OFF, or ON(1-4) by setting different tune from 1 to 4. Enter/Pause 3. Press to accept. ALARM INTERVAL Setup: 1.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: OUTPUT TRIGGER Setup: 1. Select “OUTPUT TRIGGER” submenu. Decr/Slower Incr/Faster 2. Use to turn it ON or Disable it. Enter/Pause 3. Press to accept. 3.2.4 SYSTEM Setup Select “SYSTEM” and confirm the selection. The SYSTEM SETUP MENU will display. SYSTEM SETUP SETUP : 08925 H81 MR...
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: VIDEO QUALITY Setup: 1. Select “VIDEO QUALITY” submenu. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 2. Use to select the Quality 1(lowest)-10 (highest) or use number button “0 to 9” to set the value. Enter/Pause 3. Press to accept. SCAN TYPE Setup: Only Full Screen Display is available.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: ALARM RECORD Setup: 1. Select “ALARM RECORD” submenu. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 2. Use to turn it ON or OFF. Enter/Pause 3. Press to accept. VGA-PIP Setup: For future upgrade. Note: PIP function is only available for VGA monitor. It is disabled until a future upgrade. 1.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 3.2.5 NETWORK Setup: Note: To edit this menu, “Connect Server” (#2) in the Network Setup menu needs to be set to OFF and saved first. Re-enter the setup menu and continue to edit. If you need help in Network Setup please contact your Network Administrator.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: NETWORK SETUP SERVER SETUP HOST NAME RT4_________ CONNECT SERVER (ON/OFF) SERVER -------------- -------------- SERVER PORT 40000 DISCONNECT ALM ON/-- ON/-- ON/-- ON/-- NETWORK SETUP CONNECTION LISTEN PORT 50000 50000 MODE LAN/WAN/DIAL-UP GET IP AUTO GET IP/MANUAL SETUP IP NETWORK SETUP DNS SETUP GET IP...
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: NETWORK SETUP REMOTE USER 1-4 USER NAME -------------- PASSWORD -------------- SETUP ON/OFF DOWNLOAD ON/OFF OUTPUT ON/OFF CAMERA 1-2 ON/OFF ON/OFF CAMERA 3-4 ON/OFF ON/OFF NETWORK SETUP NETWORK INFO LOCAL IP 192.168.12.105 DNS SERVER 242.168.34.233 MAC ADDRESS 00:BA:D0:0B:CB:FF DDNS CONNECT...
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: CONNECT SERVER Setup: 1. Select “CONNECT SERVER” submenu. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 2. Use to enable or disable the remote connection. Enter/Pause 3. Press to accept. SERVER Setup: Server IP of the network. 1. Select “SERVER” submenu. 2.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: DISCONNECT ALM Setup: 1. Select “DISCONNECT ALM” submenu. 2. Use to shift and select the character field. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 3. Use to enable/disable the remote ALARM connection. Enter/Pause 4. Press to accept. NETWORK SETUP: Connection Setup. The first port (50000) is for LAN, and the second port is ...
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: MODE SETUP: There are 3 modes LAN, WAN and DIAL-UP. 1. Select “MODE” submenu. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 2. Use to select between LAN, WAN, and DIAL-UP. Enter/Pause 3. Press to accept. LAN mode: Manual or Auto (DHCP). NETWORK SETUP CONNECTION LISTEN PORT...
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: DIAL-UP mode (PSTN type) NETWORK SETUP CONNECTION LISTEN PORT 50000 50000 MODE DIAL-UP USER NAME PASSWORD AUTO CONNECT ON/OFF LOCAL IP/NET MASK/GATEWAY Setup: 1. Select “LOCAL IP/NET MASK/GATEWAY” submenu. 2. Use to shift and select the character field. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower 3.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: NETWORK SETUP: DNS SETUP There are two ways to get an IP address: Auto and Manual. NETWORK SETUP: DNS SETUP GET IP AUTO GET IP/MANUAL GET IP NETWORK SETUP: DNS SETUP GET IP AUTO GET IP NETWORK SETUP: DNS SETUP GET IP...
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: NETWORK SETUP: REMOTE USER There are a total of 4 different users that can be setup in each DVR. Use the key to move to next user setting or use the key to move to the previous user setting. NETWORK SETUP REMOTE USER 1-4 USER NAME...
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 3.2.6 I/O SETUP Select the “I/O” submenu and following menu will display. The first screen is the OUTPUT setup. SETUP 080925 H81 MR I/O SETUP OUTPUT TIME/DISPLAY OUTPUT 1 (ON/OFF/---) (1-999)/--- CAMERA OUTPUT 2 (ON/OFF/---) (1-999)/--- ALARM...
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 3.2.7 PROGRAM Setup: Note: Record must be turned off to program these settings. Select the “PROGRAM” submenu. The following will display: SETUP 08925 H81 MR ROGRAM SETUP PROGRAM 1-4 TIME/DISPLAY ENABLE ON/OFF CAMERA SUN - SAT ON/OFF ON/OFF ON/OFF ON/OFF ALARM ON/OFF ON/OFF ON/OFF...
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: PASSWORD: Maximum 14 characters. Select “PASSWORD” and confirm the selection. to shift and select the field. Incr/Faster Decr/Slower to select each character/number or use the number button “0-9”. Enter/Pause Press to accept. UPGRADE FIRMWARE: (Recording must be stopped first). 1.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 4. Recording/Live View After everything is connected, power on and the initial start up has taken place, a quad screen will display. With proper setup, the system status will also display: Camera name, system time, and HDD status. (Date/Time display can be set on # 4 SYSTEM TIME in TIME/DISPLAY SETUP) HDD : HDA1 FREE: 100.3 G...
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 4.1 Recording/live view mode button definition Buttons Button Name Button definitions in Record/Live View MODE Decr/Slower Decrease Disabled. button Increase Incr/Slower Disabled. button Enter/Pause Enter or Disabled. Pause Record Press this button to activate recording if recording has been stopped. Button Stop Button Press this button to cancel any change and go back to live mode.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: Right Shift Press this button to get into Mute control output. Button 0/Seq Will scan all 4 channels, one channel at a time. Buttons 1 thru 4 Press one of these buttons to enlarge that channel in full display (other Buttons channels continue to record.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 4.2 Activate Recording: If the recording has been stopped for any reason, or auto recording is set to OFF, press the REC button to start recording again. 4.3 Mute Control Output: During live view or recording modes, press to get to the mute control output menu.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 5. Playback 5.1 Playback mode button definition: Buttons Button Name Button definitions in Playback MODE Decr/Slow Decrease For each press, the speed will change as follow: ½, ¼, 1/6, 1/8, and button then back to normal speed. Incr/Faste For each press, the speed will change as follow: 2X, 4X, 6X, 8X, and Increase button...
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: Up Button Disabled. Right Shift Press this button once during playback to skip forward 30 seconds. Button 0/Seq Buttons Disabled. 1 thru 4 Display each channel full screen. Buttons 9/Quad Button Go back to 4 channel (quad) display. 5 to 8 buttons Disabled.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 5.2 Playback the recording image: Play Press during recording/live to display the following menu: (you can playback with either the start data/time or by the date list.) PLAYBACK START DATE 2009-07-03 START TIME 12:00:00 CAMERA 1 - 4 Fig 5.2a...
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 5.2.2 Using Date List to search and playback a recorded event: Menu 1. In the Playback Menu, press the button to get the Playback Date List. PLAYBACK DATE LIST 2009-07-25 HDA1 2009-07-24 HDA1 2009-07-23 HDA1 2009-07-22 HDA1...
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 5.2.3 Playback Operation Functions: Playback Fast backward: Pressing during playback rewinds the video 30 seconds each time the button is pressed. Playback Fast Forward: Pressing during playback fast forwards 30 seconds each time the button is pressed. Playback Slow speed: Press to slow down the playback by ½, ¼, 1/6, and 1/8.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 6. Alarm log Playback: The Button definition is the same as Playback mode. All the operation function is the same as in Playback mode. Press the key during recording/live view mode will get the following Alarm Log Date list. ALARM LOG DATE LIST 2009-07-03 HDA1...
To switch between USB Flash and USB HDD, you need to reboot the DVR. TDR-3604R supports both USB Flash drives and USB hard drive storage units. Plug in your USB backup device into the USB port directly. Note: Please format your USB backup device to FAT 32 file system before you start to backup the data.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: Referring to Fig 7.3b, use to select the channel number and time interval you Enter/Pause want from file list, then hit key to confirm the selection. The File Backup menu will display on the screen. FILE BACKUP: 2009-05-25 START TIME 15:15:41...
3604R DVRs through network. For best results, use a separate PC with Microsoft XP to run as a server with the Triview Server software. The Triview software package is on the provided CDROM, and the installation program will lead you to install the software.
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1. Install the Server software on your designated PC. It is best to have a fixed IP address on this PC. 2. If it is set up on a real IP address (i.e. 211.172.12.34), the TDR-3604R DVRs and Triview main control software will need to set the server address in the setup menu as 211.172.12.34 to connect.
8.2 Network Connection Setup: Triview Server Software: Please run the Server program first before launching the Triview program then minimize it. It will ask for password setup the first time. You can login/edit/check or file/manage/help by using menu bar buttons.
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40000 also. After running the Server program, select “Start Server” to activate the Server program, if it is not set to automatically start. This will allow other TDR-3604R DVRs and other Triview system to connect to network.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: Connected Host Current Time Display Channel Display HDD Free Space From left to right: Cancel motion detection areas, Function Panel Buttons Snapshot, Caption for status display, Caption color, Video configuration Function panel buttons Description Displays or hides the host panel Connects or disconnects remote access Auto scan...
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: Host panel My channel PTZ panel Output panel panel Host Panel Buttons Description Switches between Host panel and My Channel panel. Switches between Host panel and My Channel panel. Host panel/My channel panel, PTZ panel, Output panel selection PTZ controller...
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Please respond accordingly. Note: If the user name and password are the same as the network user setting in the TDR-3604R, you will not be asked again to login into the TDR-35604R DVR. After the program has been run once, you will need to hit the Escape Key and input your user name and password.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: ■ Setup Triview Main Control Software 1. BOARD SETUP: (If there are capture cards installed on this PC.) Click on the Board tab and the following window will display: To setup a new board, select options or fill in each field, then click on the OK to save.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 3. HOST SETUP: This screen configures settings used by the remote software. Some buttons are for available for capture cards. Click on the Host tab as shown below, and the following window will display: Please read each option carefully.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 5. EMAIL SETUP: For installed video capture card. Click on the Email tab as shown and following window will display: To setup email, fill in the appropriate fields and press OK to save. 6. USER SETUP: Click on the User tab and the following window will display.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 7. DATABASE SETUP: Click on the Database tab and the following window will display. Click on or highlight an existing database, then click edit to designate HDD space, Enable, Recycle, or configure an alarm or sound HDD space is low. Click on OK to save. 8.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 9. SOUND BANK SETUP: Click on the Sound bank tab and the following window will display: Click on New to add sounds (the New sound file window will appear), or highlight an existing file Edit, Delete, or Preview the sound.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 10. ADDRESS BOOK SETUP: Used to link to servers or DVRs. Click on the Address book tab and the following window will display. Click on New to add a new server and configure the fields. Click OK. To edit the existing server, highlight the server and click Edit. After making any changes, click OK to save.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: Select and choose the city map For example, after adding a city map, you are going to add a building floor map on the next level. Hightlight the city folder or right click it then click on New button to add new building floor map. See pictures below. To add the location of the building floor to the city map, highlight the city map then click on Edit button.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: A green select arrow will point to the newly added level location. You can edit, delete or close the existing Emap. 13. ADD/MOVE Camera/PC/Level on the MAP: Highlight the map and click New or Edit. The Emap edit window will display. Example of Map Levels Move Item Add Camera...
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: To add a camera / PC, click on the icon in the upper left corner. The cursor will turn into a “+” sign. Move the cursor to the desire location and click the left mouse button to finish the camera location setup. A window will pop up for you to assign the camera to the host and camera number.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 14. EMAP OPERATINGS: When you select the Emap function from the utility options in System Operation section, depending on the previous state, one of the following will appear: The cameras will display in one of three different modes: Recording , idle , or fault The tree form graph on the left is for selecting Emaps from different levels when there are 2 or more levels.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: Before an alarm During IDLE, pictures will pop up when motion is detected When alarm is triggered 16. I/O SETUP: To control speed dome cameras connected to PC capture card. Click on the I/O tab and the following window will display: To setup a new PTZ, click on the New button to display the window above.
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From the Host panel on the right hand side of the Triview main program, you should see the name for all the connected systems. Double click the system name you would like to monitor, and the split window correspondence to that system will appear.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: Press and the following “Remote Channel Select” will display as follows: Choose whether to record or monitor each channel and click OK. The system will then display your cameras based on your previous selection.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: Note: During live view you can right click the channel to preview the previously recorded data, you can choose previous 1, 2, or 3, etc minutes. Example below is right click on channel 4, then preview button show up. Example below shows window after left click on the preview button.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: Window below shows after selecting the previous minutes and click on OK button. 8.3 Remote File Search: Click and then click (the File mode button). You can now search the database from the DVR system’s hard disk.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: Note: You can choose the DVR/Disk Partition/Date/Video, then on the right pane you are able to double click the file and choose the start/end/channel to playback. In addition you are capable to play multi channels of the same DVR at the same time.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 8.4 About Calendar Search: Calendar Search is designed for fast and easy search on any channel on any DVR in the network in within minute at any specific of 1 hour period of any selected recording date. To activate this search, the involved DVR must be connected first.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: By selecting year/month/date the area section “00-24 by C1, C2, C3, C4 rows” turn dark blue which means all channels 1-4 have full recorded data. If no data on any specific area section, that area remains light blue. Window below shows that on Aug 08, 2008 all channels have full recorded data, and Aug 11, channels 1-4 only have data from 01-10 o’clock.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: The blue marks on the 0-60 minutes bar, window below, indicate that the starting points which has been searched already. The red mark indicates the current starting point to search. After clicking on the started minute, it will search for file and start playing as shown in window below: Please read the playback Control Panel section for button definitions.
Page: 9. TRIVIEW Player The Triview (VG) Player program is included in the provided CD-ROM. You can playback all the video files the Triview DVR has recorded. When you run the Triview Player program, the following screen appears. Please check around the menu bar like file, View, Setup and tools, etc... It is capable to detect if the file has been tampered.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 9.1 Playback Control Panel: The Playback control panel consists of a basic functional control panel and an extended functional control panel. The picture above left is the basic functional control panel. By pressing the button, the extended functional control panel will be shown as above right.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: End Video Clip: Click this button during video playback to set the end of a video clip to be saved. Save Video Clip: Click to save an allocated video clip. Video clips will be saved in the clip folder under the designated date in the directory set in Host setup.
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TDR series Digital Recording System Page: The Triview Player supports multiple functions under the Files, View, Setup, Tools, and Help tabs. For example, from the Setup tab you can select color configuration where you can adjust the images’ Brightness, Contrast, Saturation or Hue for better image effect.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 9.2 VG to AVI Conversion: The DVR Player supports the conversion of VG Files (including VG, VGX and VGZ files) to AVI files. AVI files then can be played back on most of other computers with various player software. First, select Tools on the main screen.
TDR series Digital Recording System Page: 10. Troubleshooting Problem: The DVR is not starting up or no power to the unit Solution: Check the AC power cord to make sure it is well seated in the DVR and the wall outlet. Problem: The DVR is powered, but nothing shows up on the screen.
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