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X-Vision Digital Video Recorder User Manual

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  • Page 1 ’ ’ 2005-02 Edition Copyright 2002-2005 by X-Vision...
  • Page 2 Chapter About X-Vision DVR X-Vision...
  • Page 3 X-Vision DVR can accept up to 32 cameras on frame rate up to 400/400fps (in PAL type) depending on model type. As X-Vision DVR adopts high compression algorithm, it maximizes storage capability and creates less network distruption.
  • Page 4 Pan/Tilt/Zoom control on both server and client side 32 level of security access Digital watermark support Dynamic IP support Multiple and simultaneous remote connections Allows access from Windows CE installed PDA through mobile internet High performance, durable rackmount case X-Vision...

  • Page 5: Important Notes

    - Set “System Standby”, “Turn off monitor” and “Turn off hard disk” at “Never” in Display Properties\Power Management Properties\Power Schemes. 3) Rebooting Setup We highly recommend you to set automatic daily rebooting in idle time for most stable system operation. 4) Operating System Windows 2000 or Windows XP 5) DirectX DirectX Verison 8.1 or above X-Vision...
  • Page 6 Chapter X-Vision DVR Unit X-Vision...
  • Page 7 2.1 Unpacking X-Vision DVR Unit Remove X-Vision DVR Unit from the package. Make sure that the following contents are included in the package before beginning the installation procedure. Included contents are ; 1. Mouse 2. Keyboard 3. X-Vision PCDVR Software CD-Rom 4.
  • Page 8 2.3 Rear View of X-Vision DVR 10 11 12 13 Sensor Input (8 Input Ports) USB Port Camera Input (Ch1 ~ Ch16) COM1 Connector (For PTZ device) Alarm Output (5 Output Ports) Print Connector TV Out Port COM2 Connector AC Power Socket (Power In)

  • Page 9: Connecting Sensor And Alarm

    - Control Output : DO Terminal Close - Sensor Detection : 1-8 Terminal & COM Port 3 D/O Voltage Close .DC 30V, 1A or below 3. At normal close mode, it works reversely. .DC 110V, 0.3A or below .AC 125V, 500mA or below X-Vision...
  • Page 10 2.5 Connecting Pan/Tilt COM Port (RS232C) RS422/485 Converter X-Vision...
  • Page 11 X-Vision...

  • Page 12: Live Mode

    Chapter Live Mode X-Vision...
  • Page 13 Time Indicator Status indicator Pan/Tilt/Zoom Control Pad Search Mode Setup Mode Voice Communication Instant Replay Emergent Recording Instant Lock Screen Division Exit Camera/Alarm/TV-Out Panel Select Button Backup Indicator Client Connection Indicator Event Detect Indicator HDD Space Indicator Auto Switching Indicator X-Vision...

  • Page 14: Selecting On Screen Division Button

    Focus Near Zoom In Zoom Out If Pan/Tilt is set for the camera from “Camera Setup\Pan/Tilt Setup”, Pan/Tilt icon will be displayed on the camera view. To control additional PTZ functions like preset or auto pan, press PT Option Button. X-Vision...

  • Page 15: Screen Movement

    3. Drop the screen to the location where you move. CAM16 CAM02 CAM03 CAM04 Drop CAM05 CAM06 CAM07 CAM08 CAM09 CAM10 CAM11 CAM12 CAM13 CAM14 CAM15 CAM01 You can return to default status by clicking reset button on screen division select button. X-Vision...
  • Page 16 Shows the current channels sent to TV monitor. Select the channel to view from TV monitor by clicking. Applicable on Sentry 1004 to 3016 models Only the channel checked on “Enable AV-Out” in Camera Setup Mode will be displayed through TV monitor. X-Vision...

  • Page 17: Instant Replay

    To view the video in other time, stop playing and select the time in the below list. And press play button again. Previous time for instant replay can be set from Previous Time Selection Bar. The setup will effect when next instant replay run. X-Vision...

  • Page 18: Emergency Recording

    Or if you want to apply the same frame rate to whole channels, check on “Apply All(fps)”, then set frame rate. 3. While in emergency recording mode, the recording will be by the frame rate set from “Emergency Recording Setup” contiously. For stopping emergency recording, press the button again. X-Vision...

  • Page 19: Password Lock

    2. In order to enter ID and PW when asked for. One default ID (Administrator, Manager and General) can be chosen from the pull-down list. Or you can write your own ID registered on User Registration Menu. 3. To be released from Password Lock Mode, press the button once again and complete ID and PW confirmation. X-Vision...

  • Page 20: Search Mode

    Chapter Search Mode X-Vision...
  • Page 21 One Frame One Frame Backward Forward Function control ; You can adjust the brightness and softness of the Speed Down Stop Pause images shown from search mode, and the volume of audio sound. X-Vision...

  • Page 22: Print Images

    3. Copy Count : can select the number of copies that you desire to print 4. Image Border : creates border line of paper used 5. Image Per One Page : specifies the number of images on one page to print 6. Print 7. Exit from the print menu X-Vision...
  • Page 23 5. Move Image : click right or left arrow button to move selected channel to next or previous frame (check on “Move All” to move all channels at the same time). 6. Next Frames: Save next frames to the frame shown with the number set 7. Save 8. Exit from the print menu X-Vision...
  • Page 24 4. Select one bookmark and click “Go”. Then the selected image will be played in one-split mode. To delete the bookmark , select one and press delete button. You can select multiple bookmark by using Ctrl or Shift Key together. To edit the remak of the bookmark, press “Edit” and change the remark. X-Vision...
  • Page 25 Click to play specific time, click on the corresponding time on displayed resoultion, selected images. camera line. codec type or recording type on recording images. 4. Event Search 5. Object Search See page 27 for details. See page 28 for details. X-Vision...

  • Page 26: Event Search

    2. Select the date and the channel to search event. Then select event type (motion or digital-input). 3. Press “Search Event”. Then search result will be shown as below. 4. Select one event and press “Play Event” to play on preview screen. Press “Stop Event” to stop playing. X-Vision...

  • Page 27: Object Search

    4. Press “Search”. Then search result will be shown on Motion Event List as shown below. Selecting one event from the list will show the image on preview screen. To add one event to book, select one and press “Add To Bookmark”. X-Vision...

  • Page 28: Setup Mode

    Chapter Setup Mode X-Vision...

  • Page 29: System Setup

    4. User registration : sets 32 user access levels. 5. View log file : displays the system log file. 6. Reboot setup : sets daily, weekly or monthly schedule of system rebooting or shut-down. 7. Run Virtual keyboard : runs virtual keyboard X-Vision...

  • Page 30: Recording & Backup Drive Setup

    5.2.1 Recording & Backup Drive Setup When you run X-Vision DVR program first after installation, Recording Drive Setup will pop up, where you can set the recording and backup drives. In order to add the recording & backup drives to the current setup, enter SETUP Mode. Then click DISK MODIFYING button in system setup menu.

  • Page 31: User Registration

    Set one User ID to “User Fixed” and exit User Registration menu. Then the program will automatically return to live mode and Current User will switch to the User ID defined as “User Fixed”, if there is no keyboard and mouse input on Setup Mode for the time set from “User Fixed Delay Time”. X-Vision...

  • Page 32: Rebooting Setup

    Checking on “Auto Reboot” and on one of Every day, Every week or Every month. Then set the time, day or date. Then exit to finalize the setup. The program will perform scheduled rebooting. If “System Down” is checked on together, the system will be automatically shut off as scheduled. X-Vision...

  • Page 33: Camera Setup

    : the channel activated , : the channel inactivated 2. Click one of three functional buttons in order to set camera properties. User “Acvatie All Camera” button to enable all channels at the same time. Motion & Color General Setup Pan/Tilt Setup Setup X-Vision...
  • Page 34 - E-mail : sends e-mail upon video loss (Refer to E-mail Setup) - Phone Alert : calls to registered no. upon motion event (Refer to Dial-up Setup) - Alarm-Out : sends digital outputs (alarm, lamp and so on) checked upon video loss X-Vision...

  • Page 35: Setting Motion & Color Properties

    To draw area again, draw with left-mouse click. You can use “Brush Size Adjust Button” together. To set whole areas for motion, press “Draw On All Area Button”. To delete whole motion area, press “Delete On All Area Button”. X-Vision...

  • Page 36: Setting Pan/Tilt

    4. Pan/Tile Invert : Check on the box to make pan/tilt direction inversed. 5. Zoom In/Out Invert : Check on the box to make zoom in/out fuction work inversed. 6. Display RX Button : Check on the box to display the pan/tilt icon on the camera view. X-Vision...

  • Page 37: Schedule Setup

    - Constant Audio Rec. : Records audio constantly - Audio Detect Rec. : Records audio when sound occurs As video and audio recording are done seperately, users will have to check on audio recording option in order to record audio together with video. X-Vision...
  • Page 38 If you check on Motion Recording or DI nos, set frame per second for event recording on FPS Recording slide bar and set non event frames on Non-event FPS slide bar. For recording upon event For recording without event X-Vision...
  • Page 39 - Range : 0 to 5 seconds Audio Sensitiveness : 0 to 25 You can repeat the step 1 to 4 in order to set schedule on multiple DAY and TIME zones. 5. Click Exit button to save and exit. X-Vision...
  • Page 40 - Alarm-Out : sends digital outputs (alarm, lamp and so on) checked upon DI event 3. Click Exit button to save and exit. You can repeat the above steps in order to set schedule on multiple DAY and TIME zones. X-Vision...

  • Page 41: Network Setup

    6. Network Image Quality : you can set the image quality trasferred via internet using adjustment bar. The higher the image becomes, the bigger the size gets. Total Speed Limit : you can set total transfer frame rate allowance. X-Vision...
  • Page 42 Press “Retrieve DDNS”. And enter the ID and PW you registered. Press “OK”. Then DDNS ID/PW will be restored. When you forget DDNS ID/PW, press “Forgot ID/PW” button. Enter the e-mail and DVR name previously registered. And press “OK”. Then registered DDNS ID/PW will be sent to your e-mail registered. X-Vision...
  • Page 43 9. PDA Connection : check on to enable access from PDA client 10. Smart-Update Before Start-up : check on to use Smart Update function before running the program. Execute Smart-Upgrade Now : click the button to run instant Smart Updated right now. X-Vision...

  • Page 44: Control Setup

    6. Audio List : Shows audio list. You can enter the name of sensor instead of Audio##. And can camera no. to be mixed with the audio recording. You must select camera no. per each audio port in order to use audio function. X-Vision...
  • Page 45 11. Record While Searching : Check on the box to record while searching 12. Dial-up Setup Enter the phone no. and click (+) to register To delete, click (-) icon. Shows the phone no. list Shows the modem list on the DVR Sets the ringing time X-Vision...

  • Page 46: Backup Setup

    5. In order to erase older datas, check on “If hard disk is full, delete old file”. Backup drive should be set from Recording Drive Setup first to set backup in this menu. Concerning manual backup procedure, refer to 6.1 Backup Tool in Chapter 6. X-Vision...
  • Page 47 Chapter Program Tools X-Vision...
  • Page 48 This tool can be utilized to reselect model type when you changed the capture board to other different model board from the system or you selected wrong type of board. 1. Close PCDVR Server program. Simply run CaptureClear.exe from C:\PCDVR\Tools. 2. Press OK to cancel the current model selection. 3. Then CaptureClear Success message will show up. X-Vision...
  • Page 49 4. Then you can select capture board model again from the below menu when running PCDVR Server program. X-Vision...

  • Page 50: Backup Tool

    Specify the period / video channles with recordings and click search Automatic search period select Click each title in order to sort files by subject. To select all files to press Select All Shows recording To view file, press files after search. Preview Select the files to back up. X-Vision...
  • Page 51 Backup Stop : stop backup procedure Exit : exit from Backup Menu Concerning backup method to DVD or CD-RW, refer to the CD-RW backup manual provided seperately. To view backup recording files, use PCDVRPlayer.exe from C:\PCDVR\Tools. See the next page to know the usage. X-Vision...
  • Page 52 6.3 PCDVRPlayer Tool This tool can be used for viewing recording file backed up by PCDVRPlayer.exe. 1. Run PCDVRPlayer.exe from C:\PCDVR\Tools. 2. Browse the folder where backup files exist. X-Vision...
  • Page 53 3. Doubleclick on the file you want to play from the list. Use Select Camer pull-down menu to search from the specified video channel. 4. Then PCDVRPlayer will run instantly. Speed play from +16X to -6X Export to BMP or Jpeg snapshot image Separate PCDVRPlayer Install version is available to play from other PC without PCDVRPlayer program. X-Vision...
  • Page 54 1. Close PCDVR Server program. Run IndexBuilder.exe from C:\PCDVR\Tools . 2. Select on Recording Drive and press Build Index Button. 3. After the rebuilding process, complete message will show up. The more recoding files exist, the longer the rebuilding time takes. X-Vision...
  • Page 55 Chapter Network Function X-Vision...
  • Page 56 When selectd, the button will be filled with blue color. Only on audio ch. can be selected. Video Channel ON/OFF ; Select remote video channels to receive image. ON is filled with blue color. OFF is blank inside. X-Vision...

  • Page 57: Client System Setup

    3. View Event Log : Shows the below event history created from server side instantly [ Event Log Viewer ] 4. Use Smar Update : Check on to run Smart Update upon start-up of PCDVR Client 5. Execute Smart Update Now : Click the button to run Smart Update now X-Vision...
  • Page 58 4. Event Log Recording : Records the event history created from server side on the log file (The event histories are recorded in C:\PCDVR\LogFile named like Event2005XXXX.log) 5. Check on Voice Network to enable Voice Communication with server and enter the name desired 6. Recording Type : Check on one of two options X-Vision...
  • Page 59 Enter phone number when modem-to-modem connection Select Modem or Serial Refer to 5.6 Netwrok Setup about the procedure of registering Dynamic DNS ID. You check video, audio and voice port no. from server side Network Setup if changed from the default. X-Vision...

  • Page 60: Connecting To Server

    LAN check box from Network Setup on server side should be checked on to allow remote access. Please make sure that video 8100 (if not changed from server side) is forwared to the DVR if there is router or firewall. X-Vision...
  • Page 61 Select one of Network Record Data Check on each to displayed resoultion, selected images. Or Client Record Data codec type or recording type on recording images. Upon clicking OK button, playback screen will pop up. The usage is the same when server playback. X-Vision...

  • Page 62: Viewing Through Web Browser

    And make sure to check on “Share IP” option so that server program can get correct global IP information. In order to view images through web brower, Direct X 8.1 or above should be installed on client PC. X-Vision...
  • Page 63 1. Open Internet Properties. And press "Custom Level" from "Security" tab. 2. Check on "Prompt" under "Download unsigned ActiveX controls". Press OK. And press OK from Internet Properties. 3. Then prompt window will be shown to ask if users wants to download ActiveX controls for running web client. X-Vision...

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