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The Intelligent Surveillance Solution
Titan NVR
NuClient User Manual
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  • Page 1 The Intelligent Surveillance Solution Titan NVR NuClient User Manual Ver. 1.0.0.110919.00...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Installation / Uninstallation ............. 1 The Master-Slave Architecture ..........7 Log in ................... 8 Log out and Exiting ..............9 Display version information ............ 11 Interface Overview ..............13 6.1 Menu ................13 6.2 Live View ................ 14 6.2.1 View List..............
  • Page 3 7.1.5 Delete A View............29 7.1.6 Duplicate a view or a view tour ........30 7.2 Configure Content ............31 7.2.1 Add image fusion ............31 7.2.2 Example of image fusion..........36 7.3 E-Map ................41 7.4 Application configurations ..........47 7.4.1 General ..............
  • Page 4 Watch Recorded Video ............77 9.1 Search in Timeline ............77 9.2 Toolbar Content ............... 82 9.3 The Playback Control Panel ..........82 9.3.1 The Playback Control ..........82 9.3.2 The Date / Time Display ..........83 Event browsing control............84 9.3.3 ...................

  • Page 5: Installation / Uninstallation

    1 Installation / Uninstallation 1. Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive and double-click Setup.exe to begin installation. 2. Click the Next button. 3. Accept the License Agreement and click the Next button.
  • Page 6 4. Enter your name and the name of your company, and click the Next button. 5. There are two types of installation, Complete and Custom.  Complete: Install everything in this package.
  • Page 7  Custom: Install a custom selection of applications and configure the installation directory.
  • Page 8 Select the installation folder Select the applications you want to install 6. Click on the Install button to start the installation.
  • Page 9 7. The system is being installed. 8. After all the files are installed, the installer will disable UAC on your Windows, if UAC is not disabled. That will require a restart. Choose Yes to restart immediately or No to restart later, and click on Finish.
  • Page 10 1. HTTP Web browser - Internet Explorer 8 and Interface later 2. NUUO client application program We suggest that you avoid using on-board graphics card which will give you a poor performance. NuClient may pop up an error dialog saying “Videos cannot be displayed on the Client PC with on-board graphic card”...

  • Page 11: The Master-Slave Architecture

    2 The Master-Slave Architecture One of the most advanced architecture design in NVRTitan is the master-slave architecture. In the architecture, NVRTitan is not merely a single recording machine, but also a bridge linking with multiple NVRTitan boxes. From the perspective of users, they do not need to connect to different NVRTitan boxes one at a time anymore.

  • Page 12: Log In

    3 Log in When the application is opened, you will see a log-in window. Please enter the server address you are going to connect to, the user name, and the password. After entering the correct user and server information, you will see the main interface of the system.

  • Page 13: Log Out And Exiting

    4 Log out and Exiting 1. To log out yourself from the system, please go to Menu / Log out. 2. If you make any change in the configurations, you may a dialogs confirming if you want to update the modification when you log out. To update changes to server, please click the Yes button in the dialog.
  • Page 14 Both your primary monitor and secondary monitors will be closed when you log out. 5. After logging out, the system will still be running and stay in main memory. To exit the system, please choose Exit.

  • Page 15: Display Version Information

    2. The dialog shows the version, the copyright information, and also the links to NUUO’s homepage and its technical support site. http://support.nuuo.com is NUUO’s technical support site. You may find all sorts of technical information including FAQs, product specifications, and technical contact information.

  • Page 17: Interface Overview

    6 Interface Overview This chapter briefly describes the components in the interface and also their functions. Menu Clicking on menu, you will see extended functions: Update View List to server: Submit the changes you make during  your session. If you don’t have the privilege to modify a View List, an error message will pop up when you try to update modifications.

  • Page 18: Live View

    Live View Live view page displays video streams in a grid. Grid types can be configured using the toolbar below the live view area. If you have multiple monitors, the Live View interface on secondary monitors is very similar. The main difference is in the toolbar.

  • Page 19: View List

    The interface of Live View on a secondary monitor Icon Definition Switch between views Close Live View on a secondary monitor 6.2.1 View List A view is a collection of configurations including those of grid layouts, camera settings, aspect ratios, stream profiles, etc. 6.2.2 Content List Content List shows all the devices a user have permission to access.

  • Page 20: Ptz Control Panel

    such as sensors on cameras. 6.2.3 PTZ Control Panel In the panel, you may control both optical and digital pan/tilt/zoom of your cameras. Optical PTZ is enabled only when a camera has PTZ capability. Digital PTZ is achieved purely by digital image processing, and it is enabled for all cameras.

  • Page 21: Event Panel

    Content type Displayed information in Displayed information in Live View Playback Camera name Camera name Camera Video stream profile Video format Video format Resolution Resolution Display type Display type Map name Emap Map description Camera name Camera name Image fusion Video stream profile Video format Video format...

  • Page 22: Status Bar

    viewed in the area, manually record video, and change configurations of video streams. 6.2.8 Status Bar In the status bar, you may see real-time system information including the current date/time, user name, the address of the server you connect to, CPU usage, memory usage, network download/upload information, and custom text.

  • Page 23: Playback

    Playback The common panels are the same as those seen in Live View page, but there are some extra panels in Playback page. 6.3.1 Search Panel In this panel, you may set up a search for motion in videos. 6.3.2 Timeline Timeline is a user-friendly representation of time and recorded data.
  • Page 24 Each component in the interface is a dockable widget which can be placed anywhere in the current window. You may resize each of the components by clicking on the edges of dockable widgets, and you may arrange them in the way you like.

  • Page 25: Configure

    7 Configure Configure Views A view is the configuration of how you arrange video content in the view area, video stream settings, and the grid layout. Views can be categorized into Public View and Private View. Public Views are configured by the users who have the editing permission on the server and can be viewed by any users.

  • Page 26: Add A View

    Icon Definition Add view/group/view tour Delete view/group/view tour Configure view/group/view tour Search Send view/group/view tour to a secondary monitor when available Live View can be displayed both in the primary monitor and in secondary monitors, but Playback can open only in the primary monitor. 7.1.1 Add A View 1.
  • Page 27 3. Clicking on the Add button brings up a list of the types of items you may add to your view list. Besides view, you may also add View Group and View Tour. A view group is a group of views which can be organized into a tree structure.
  • Page 28 5. You may click on the name to change it.

  • Page 29: Add Cameras To View

    7.1.2 Add cameras to View 1. There are several ways to put content items onto the view area. You can drag and drop a server or a single camera. 2. If you drag a single camera or a sensor to a grid cell, then the camera’s video will show in the cell.

  • Page 30: Add A View Tour

    7.1.3 Add A View Tour 1. Click on Add View Tour.
  • Page 31 2. In View Tour Settings, on the left, there are the hierarchy of available views. The rectangle area on the right is the list of views that are placed on the view tour. On the top, you may set the name of this View Tour and the dwell time.

  • Page 32: Search A View

    In the corner of view tour, you can switch between previous and next views, and toggle full screen. Icon Definition Toggle full-screen Go to previous view Pause Go to next view 7.1.4 Search A View 1. Clicking on the magnifier icon will show a text field.

  • Page 33: Delete A View

    2. You may type the view you look for. Clicking on the arrows will focus on the matched results. 7.1.5 Delete A View If you want to delete a view, click on the Delete button sign.

  • Page 34: Duplicate A View Or A View Tour

    An error message will pop up if you do not have permissions to modify a view. 7.1.6 Duplicate a view or a view tour 1. Select a view or a view tour 2. Click on and continue to click on Save As … 3.

  • Page 35: Configure Content

    Configure Content A content item is an object which can be placed onto a view. It can be a camera, I/O device, image fusion of video streams, and an E-map. Devices can be categorized into two types: physical and virtual. Cameras and I/O devices are physical devices, and image fusion and E-map are virtual devices.
  • Page 36 3. Click on the Add button and a new image fusion will be added. 4. You may click on the name of the created image fusion to change the name.
  • Page 37 5. On the right side, you may change the name and add the description of the panorama. 6. Click on the Add button at the bottom, and you may start adding cameras to the current image fusion.
  • Page 38 7. Select the cameras you want to add to the image fusion. 8. Selected cameras are highlighted.
  • Page 39 9. After cameras are added, you will see camera images are stitched together in the view area in the center. You may start to adjust orientation of each image of the image fusion. 10. The horizontal and vertical scrollbars beside the view area are for controlling the viewport of the image fusion.

  • Page 40: Example Of Image Fusion

    7.2.2 Example of image fusion 1. Adjust the X-axis of the viewport.
  • Page 41 2. Adjust the X angle.
  • Page 42 3. Adjust the Y angle. 4. Adjust the Z angle.
  • Page 43 5. Scale up the image.
  • Page 44 6. After all the changes, click on OK to save the current configuration to the server. 7. After an image fusion is fully configured, you will find the newly created image fusion already added to the Content List on the left. 8.

  • Page 45: E-Map

    E-Map E-map is a graphical way to present cameras and I/O devices in order to give administrator an idea of where a camera is located, and the relationship among those devices. Cameras and I/O are overlaid on a street map, a floor plan, or any other custom image files.
  • Page 46 3. When a new E-map is added, you will see the fields on the right be activated. You may change the name, edit the description, and select a map file. The accepted file formats are PNG, BMP, and JPEG. The maximum file size of each map is 2MB.
  • Page 47 4. An image file is added. You can scroll your mouse wheel to zoom in and out the map image. If you add a new E-map without specifying a image file, an error dialog will pop up to remind you. 5.
  • Page 48 6. Drag cameras to the map. 7. Drag I/O devices to the map.
  • Page 49 8. You can adjust the size by clicking on the edge points of an icon. 9. Click on the blue point to rotate an icon.
  • Page 50 10. Click on the X icon to delete an icon. 11. To delete multiple icons at one time, select multiple icons and drag them to the trash can in the corner. 12. After committing the map to server, you may drag it to the view area.

  • Page 51: Application Configurations

    The maximum depth of E-map tree is 10. An error dialog will pop up when you try to add more than 10 layers of E-maps. Application configurations This chapter describes the applications options and configurable parameters with which you may alter the behavior and the settings of server.

  • Page 52: General

    In the dialog of application options, you will see three main categories of options in the list on the left: General, User Interface, and Function. 7.4.1 General It contains three groups of settings: Client Startup Setting, Monitor Display, and Time Zone. 1.
  • Page 53 Enable auto startup: The system will automatically start up when you  are logged in to your Windows. Enable auto login: The system will automatically connects to the  specified server when you open the application. Enable full screen: The system will open in full screen if this is enabled. ...

  • Page 54: User Interface

    Live view can be opened in any of the 4 monitors, but Playback can run on the first monitor only. 3. The Time Zone section is for configuring the display format of date and time. You may change the time zone of the displayed date/time. 7.4.2 User Interface This set of parameters is for controlling what information and which dockable components to be displayed in the user interface.
  • Page 55 The parameters in Customize are for controlling which dockable component to be displayed in Live View page and Playback page.
  • Page 56 For example, select only Content List, Event List, and View List in the dialog. The Live View page will show only Content List, Event List, and View List.

  • Page 57: Function

    Besides the configuration in Option, you may also right-click on the title bar of each dockable component to toggle the appearance of each of them. 7.4.3 Function This set of options is for configuring application behavior of both Live View and Playback.
  • Page 58 Snapshot: If you select “Automatically save snapshots”, snapshots will  be saved in the specified file format and exported in the specified directory. If you select to save snapshots manually, then you will need to assign the destination folder for snapshots every time you make a snapshot.

  • Page 59: Export/Import Configurations

    Playback Interval: Playback interval refers to the difference in time  between two frames when you click . The value ranges from 1 to 3600 seconds. Snapshot: If you select “Automatically save snapshots”, snapshots will  be saved in the specified file format and exported in the specified directory.
  • Page 60 Configuration files are saved in UserHOME\NUUO.

  • Page 61: Watch Live Video

    8 Watch Live Video In view area, you may add devices from Content List to the view area. You may add not only cameras, but also image fusion, E-Map, and I/O devices to the view area. Refer to the Configure View section to add view, camera, view tour, etc.

  • Page 62: Digital Ptz

    8.1.2 Digital PTZ In contrast to optical PTZ, Digital PTZ is an image-processing algorithm used to magnify each pixel you see in a video image. Since it is merely a software algorithm, digital PTZ is supported with any camera which NuClient connects to.
  • Page 63 2. In the corner, you may find a sub-window showing the full content of the current camera. Use mouse wheel  1. Besides drawing a rectangle, it is even more intuitive to use your mouse wheel to zoom in and zoom out. You may drag-and-drop the view area to change your viewport of the camera.
  • Page 64 2. Likewise, a sub-window showing the full content will appear in the corner. Use the on-screen buttons  1. A set of control buttons are also available in PTZ controller if you do not like the previous methods.
  • Page 65 2. The button controls zoom-in and zoom-out. 3. The arrow wheel controls pan and tilt of the current camera.

  • Page 66: Immervision Ptz

    4. The Home button will show the entire video image in one view area. 8.1.3 ImmerVision PTZ ImmerVision lens is a 360° panomorph, a particular type of panoramic lens which allows you to monitor 360° of the area where a camera is set up. NuClient supports the PTZ mode, Quad mode, Perimeter mode of ImmerVision lens.
  • Page 67 4. Click the camera which you want to modify in the camera list. 5. Modify the information of this camera. 6. Click the Save button. 7. After ImmerVision lens is enabled, you will see the video become fisheye image. 8. In the content toolbar in the corner, there is a new icon .

  • Page 68: The Modes Of Immervision Ptz

    Here is the list of icons and their functions. Icon Purpose Return to the toolbar of live view Original mode. The original image from the fisheye camera without being processed by any image processing algorithm. PTZ mode. Pan, Tilt & Zoom are computed by NuClient. Quad mode.
  • Page 69 Original Mode ...
  • Page 70 PTZ Mode ...
  • Page 71 Quad Mode  Perimeter Mode ...

  • Page 72: Toolbar Content

    As of the writing, only a few cameras support Immervision lens. For the list of supported cameras, please check the website of Immervision. http://www.immervision.com/en/security/security_partners/security_partners_2.php Toolbar Content 8.2.1 Instant Playback Click on the Instant Playback icon. You may playback video or reverse- playback video with this function.
  • Page 73 Snapshot one channel  1. Clicking on the snapshot icon in content toolbar may save the snapshot of the current video channel at the current moment. 2. You may choose to export title names, enable digital zoom in exported data, save exported images to files or to printers. The supported image file formats are BMP and JPEG at the moment.
  • Page 74 2. All the options are the same, except that the images are segmented into several different channels. If the content of a channel is E-map or I/O panel, they will also be put in a snapshot. Snapshot is available only with cameras, not with E-map and I/O.

  • Page 75: Ptz

    8.2.3 PTZ Please see the section of PTZ for details. 8.2.4 Manually Record Video 1. Click on the Start/Stop Recording icon. 2. When video is being recorded, the icon will become a square . Click it again to stop recording. 8.2.5 Audio Press the speaker icons to enable / disable audio from a camera.

  • Page 76: Connection

    If your camera supports audio but you cannot hear that in NuClient, please make sure:  Audio is enabled in the admin interface of the camera.  Cables are properly connected.  Audio is not muted in Windows. If multiple channels of video streams are running without enough bandwidth, it is possible to hear audio of poor quality.

  • Page 77: Property Window

    Using different stream profiles of a camera may make connections become unstable and disconnect more often, because streaming video in different formats and resolutions will require the CPU on cameras to do extra video processing and it may overload a camera. Property Window Property shows the information of the data in a channel.
  • Page 78 The event list in Playback is slightly different and it offers a search interface with several parameters for you to locate events in recording files. If returned results exceed 1000 records, NuClient will pop up a dialog that reminds you to refine the query. The list of possible events: Source type Event name...

  • Page 79: Joystick Settings

    Digital Input Input signal off Unit connection lost Server Disk abnormal Auto backup started Auto backup stopped Auto backup failed Recording setting is changed to always recording Recording setting is changed to schedule recording Recording setting is changed to no recording Joystick settings Merely using mouse and keyboard sometimes can be not so handy for some routine tasks, such as toggling full-screen or switching between different...
  • Page 80 2. Click on settings and you will see available buttons and supported functions in NuClient. You may map a button to the software functions you want. The supported functions are listed in the table. Type Function Go to monitor # View and grid switching Next view Previous view...

  • Page 81: Watch Recorded Video

    9 Watch Recorded Video When switching from Live View to Playback, View List, Content List, and event list on the Live View page are identical with the ones on Playback page. Therefore, if you have managed cameras and views, you can select it to check recorded video directly.
  • Page 82 If video content is an image fusion, as long as one camera has recording data, a timeline will be displayed in the area for the video content. It is possible that a camera has two video streams of different video profiles. If one camera is placed in two grid cells, two timelines will be drawn for each grid cell.
  • Page 83 4. Specify the date / time directly using the widget in the corner. The dates with recording data are shown in boldface. 5. Change event browsing settings. In Timeline, event-triggered recording data can be shown in different colors. You locate video files more quickly by enabling event browsing in different colors.
  • Page 84 Clicking on the color bars will open the color palette.
  • Page 85 6. You may change the layout of the timeline if using the horizontal layout is not convenient.

  • Page 86: Toolbar Content

    Toolbar Content When mouse is hovering over a video channel, you will see a toolbar in the corner similar to that in Live View. Icon Definition Snapshot Enable / disable audio Change the aspect ratio of a video The Playback Control Panel The control panel can be divided into 4 different parts which are, from left to right, playback control, the date/time display, timeline browsing, event browsing control, and the toolbar icons.

  • Page 87: The Date / Time Display

    Playback: Click to plays videos.  Step forward/backward: Click to play one frame next/last to the  current frame. Next/Previous: Click to set the current frame to that one in next/last  interval. The default interval Speed: Click to change alter the speed from 1/16x to 64x. ...

  • Page 88: Event Browsing Control

    speed of playback. 9.3.3 Event browsing control The event browsing control is a quick interface for you to jump between the time points when event occurs. Icon Definition Jump to previous event Jump to next event 9.3.4 The Toolbar Icons Icon Definition Toggle full-screen...

  • Page 89: Export Video

    Set cue-in point Set cue-out point Export video Take a snapshot Export Video Video exporting is a tool for converting the video of a specified time span into commonly-used video formats so that the video can be played with other video player applications, such Windows Media Player and VLC.
  • Page 90 4. You will see the icon indicating the end of the video. 5. Click on the export icon. 6. A dialog will be opened to ask for the parameters to configure the video to be exported. The supported video formats are ASF, Original AVI, and Microsoft AVI.

  • Page 91: Snapshot / Print

    The maximum filename length of export files is 64 characters. If there is a video format change in your selections, NuClient will save video data of different formats in different files and number them properly. If the export format is ASF, you can choose different video profiles. 7.
  • Page 92 1. Select an active channel and go to the motion search tab. Icon Definition Enable / disable motion search Select detection region Deselect detection region Select/deselect an region Draw a rectangle Select all / deselect all Invert selection / de-selection...
  • Page 93 2. Click on the icon and motion search will be enabled. By default, selection mode is enabled, as shown in the following screenshot. When motion search is enabled, the content tool bar of a content cell will be disabled. To enable the toolbar, please disable motion search by clicking again.
  • Page 94 4. Clicking on the minus sign, you may start to de-select the areas of no interest. 5. De-select regions are denoted by grayed images.
  • Page 95 6. Pressing will invert the selection/de-selection.
  • Page 96 7. Likewise, you may repeat the above steps to create custom shapes for detection. 8. After the region selection is done, you may click on the search icon at the bottom of the tab. refers to backward search and refers to forward search. By default, the search period is 1 day.
  • Page 97 Pixel Sensitivity: It refers to the pixel change between two compared  frames. 90% indicates that above 90% of the pixels between two frames are different. The value ranges from 1% to 99%. Zone Sensitivity: It refers to the percentage of different grid boxes ...

  • Page 98: Backup

    Backup Backup is a utility for exporting video in its original format without any format conversion. It is different than exporting video. The format of video is not converted in video backup. 1. Go to Menu / Backup tool. 2. Press the Add Period icon in the corner of the opened dialog. 3.
  • Page 99 4. The interface is quite similar to the timeline in the Playback interface. 5. Select a camera and specify the cue-in time. 6. Select a camera and specify the cue-out time. Click the OK button when the selection is done. 7.
  • Page 100 start backing up the video data. 8. If you have “Include Backup Player” enabled, then you will find Backup Player in the exported folder. You may playback video files using the playback application. With the camera video to be exported and the cue-in/out time specified, the original video files will be exported to the target folder.
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