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Leviathan DVR Range User Guide
V1.1
By Michael J Archer
© 2003 Michael J Archer
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  • Page 1 Leviathan DVR Range User Guide V1.1 By Michael J Archer © 2003 Michael J Archer v1.1 - 1 -...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Index 1. System Overview 1.1 Contents 1.2 System connection 1.3 Connect Cameras 1.4 Power on 2. Configuration 2.1 Getting started 2.2 Preferences 2.3 Camera Setup 2.4 Video Capture Card 2.5 Motion Detection 2.6 DELTA 2.7 Sound 2.8 Video Database 2.9 Users 2.10 Server 2.11 About system 3.

  • Page 3: System Overview

    Chapter 1 System Overview 1.1 Contents. Your Leviathan DVR system will either the Rack Case as shown on the Front Cover, which can be a 4 8 12 and 16 camera unit, or one of the following 4 Camera systems: Leviathan Lite DVR Leviathan Shuttle DVR Keyboard for System Unit...

  • Page 4: Quick Start Guide

    Chapter 1 – System Overview Mouse for System Unit Mouse will vary due to availability. Power lead for Base Unit Quick Start Guide Quick start manual. System Manual This Manual. Software CD CD Contains the LJD Server Software, LJD Client Software, Adobe Acrobat Reader, PDF files of All Documents including this guide.

  • Page 5: System Connection

    Chapter 1 – System Overview 1.2 System Connection. Connect the Power lead to Base Unit. The power lead is only able to plug into one socket. The connector is the same type of connector as a Kettle lead which you’ll find at home. Plug in the Keyboard and mouse, which are normally colour coded.

  • Page 6: Camera Connection

    Chapter 1 – System Overview 1.3 Camera Connection Connecting all your cameras to the camera ports see diagram below, which are located at the rear of the DVR system unit. Depending on the System you have, there will only be connections for that number camera unit.

  • Page 7: Power On

    Chapter 1 – System Overview 1.4 Power On When you power up the system it will eventually display as It is possible that the Figure 1. colour scheme could be slightly different then shown. This has not effect on the DVR software. Figure 1 You do not need to change any of the system BIOS settings.

  • Page 8: Configuration

    Chapter 2 Configuration 2.1 Getting started Click on the little yellow camera icon on the bottom right panel as show in Figure 1 This will now bring up the main Video server software ( Figure 2 Figure 2 At the top of the screen shows five icons, explained below. The main bulk of the display below, is a picture of all current camera inputs, the default is set to display 16.
  • Page 9 Chapter 2 –Configuration Top right Icons, are standard windows icons. Min. Max. Close. Minimise, Maximise, and Close Window/application. “Stream information above is highlighted in Red when system is recording. The “0 Mh” is the value in Megs / Hour which data is being recorded to hard drive, 0 will change when the system is setup and recording a video stream.
  • Page 10 Chapter 2 –Configuration The bottom and the bottom right icons on the are the main layout controls. Figure 2 X 1 X 4 Layouts & Auto Switch Figure A Layouts X 16 These bottom right icons above refer to the display camera layout selection. This gives you the control of how you like the layout of the main camera display to be presented.
  • Page 11 Chapter 2 –Configuration What you are now able to do is save the screen layout in any of the L1-L16 save positions. Just by clicking the L1-L16 Icon you want you layout to be saved under. This will highlight the “Layout name:”...
  • Page 12 Chapter 2 –Configuration The Bottom camera number Icons will change colour to reflect their displayed status. All Icons in Green are those which are on the display, with the current active Camera is highlighter in Gold/Yellow colour. By clicking the C1-C12 Icons, you’ll change the camera number on the active camera display. Simply by clicking any of the camera images on the main display, you’ll change the active camera number to that camera.
  • Page 13 Chapter 2 –Configuration Hidden Options Like most applications the Leviathan has a wealth of hidden options, which might otherwise make the software seem too complicated. So here we introduce the last option which is available from the main display. All you need to do is right click anywhere the camera display area, and the following pop up windows will then be shown as below: Here we see the first two options are shortcuts to the F9 and F10 function keys, previously mentioned.

  • Page 14: Preferences

    Chapter 2 –Configuration 2.2 Preferences First step for the initial setup is preferences, so simply click the Icon. This is the system configuration, and the following will be displayed. icon will be automatically selected to show the option you are in. Figure 3 You now have a variety of settings to be changed, most which are cosmetic, to give a look and feel of the main display area.
  • Page 15 Chapter 2 –Configuration Enables the font type to be set. Used for the displayed information. Defines display refresh rate in FPS. The rate can’t be higher than the maximal refresh rate setting of an individual camera. To change you click on the slider, or once clicked as active, you can use the keyboard left and right arrow keys.

  • Page 16: Camera Setup

    Chapter 2 –Configuration 2.3 Camera Setup From the main display, select the configuration Icon now select the Icon. Figure 4 To select a camera to change its setting you need to click camera slider icon or you can click on the camera boxes, which will be highlighted with a Red border.
  • Page 17 Chapter 2 –Configuration This should now give a picture in the box. Depending on the system you have, i.e. 4 8 12 16 camera unit, you only need to select up to the amount you have installed. Leave unused cameras un-connected, otherwise you will see Fault appear on the window and the windows will appear with a Blue background: As below.

  • Page 18: Video Capture Card

    Chapter 2 –Configuration 2.4 Video Capture Card From the main display, select the configuration Icon now select the Figure 5 The Leviathan system comes with Video Capture card/s which each supports four Camera inputs. So for an 8 camera system, there are two cards and four cards in a 16 camera system. The Video Capture settings affect the settings for each card in it own right.
  • Page 19 Chapter 2 –Configuration Switches the video signal format (PAL / NTSC) set to PAL for UK systems. Should be set to PAL. Determines video processing thread CPU priority. When “Real-time” position is chosen all procedures of less priority would be suspended until LJD-Video™ system is active. This mode is applicable if the standard CPU loading is not higher than 80%.

  • Page 20: Motion Detection

    Chapter 2 –Configuration 2.5 Motion detection From the main display, select the configuration Icon now select the Figure 7 The Leviathan DVR is a motion based recording system. This means that only when it detects a change in a cameras image will it record the data. Although you may think I need 24hour recording.
  • Page 21 Chapter 2 –Configuration Set. Clear Invert Colour • To set a mask click the “Set Mask” button of Mask Editor and mark by means of the mouse those zones were motion detection is not required. • To remove mask excesses choose “Cut Mask” button and mark zones for motion detection. •...
  • Page 22 Chapter 2 –Configuration Figure 8 This is an example of an active motion detection camera. ( Figure 8) So you can see that the window area on the camera has been masked out, so for this case the traffic passing past the window would not trigger the recording. Other good examples are trees, and if you only want to activate when a door is opened.

  • Page 23: Delta

    Chapter 2 –Configuration 2.6 DELTA From the main display, select the configuration Icon now select the Figure 8 Delta settings, is the setting of each camera, which allows you to modify the quality of the frames recorded. By carefully choosing an acceptable quality of each image, you maximize the storage space, and the overall recording period.
  • Page 24 Chapter 2 –Configuration “Noise pre-filter” button enables noise pre-filter before delta is being calculated. This option has no direct influence on picture quality; it is applied to the compression algorithm only. If recording of changes in very high details of picture is required, disabling this feature will increase sharpness detection.

  • Page 25: Sound

    Chapter 2 –Configuration 2.7 Sound From the main display, select the configuration Icon now select the A Sound card is required to enable sound recording feature. The sound part of the Leviathan range enables camera recording to be activated on a peak volume. Pushing the “Sound Recording”...

  • Page 26: Video Database

    Chapter 2 –Configuration 2.8 Video Database From the main display, select the configuration Icon now select the Your system will be provided in a setup condition, ready to go, however if you had the need to re- install the software from scratch it is worth knowing how this database is created The Video Database consists of two file types: VDB and VMB.
  • Page 27 Chapter 2 –Configuration The reason why the Leviathan systems come with Windows 2000 and Windows XP is that on older Windows versions 98/95 they have a limit on the filing system of 4GB data file sizes. Because we are looking at potentially larger files we always use the NTFS filing system, which has no such limits. So for our system any size is acceptable for the VMB files.
  • Page 28 Chapter 2 –Configuration Once you have done this, then you will be prompted with a warning message, the reason is that you should only initialize a database as a first instance of the software, because any recorded information will be removed, and all data will be cleared. Click “Yes”...
  • Page 29 Chapter 2 –Configuration Add / Remove File Option You’ll now be able to remove this created data file, as above shows that now when you right click the name the “Remove file from list” is now no longer greyed out. Remove File Confirmation When you remove a file, you will get a prompt before you commit to the removal (as below).
  • Page 30 Chapter 2 –Configuration The “Auto check time:” is a built in system event in which the system will do a quick database scan. It does not do a pull check and pack which is a separate option. The time can be set in the standard 24 hour clock format.

  • Page 31: Users

    Chapter 2 –Configuration 2.9 Users From the main display, select the configuration Icon now select the The users section lets you configure the system and remote users. By default an administrator user is created on the system, which has a blank password. Please note we recommend you change this to a more meaningful password.
  • Page 32 Chapter 2 –Configuration icon toggles the ability to view the Video Database. This is an important setting as this lets you configure the system, so that you know only authorised personnel have the ability to view historic information. This allows you to comply with the “Data Protection Act” requirements.
  • Page 33 Chapter 2 –Configuration A connected user is a user who is connected to the system via the Client software. “Connected users:” are shown on the top right of the display as below shows an example: The last user option is the icon.

  • Page 34: Server

    Chapter 2 –Configuration 2.10 Server From the main display, select the configuration Icon now select the The settings here are for the remote abilities of the DVR system. Remote users fall into two categories. The first is a Client version of the DVR software; this is covered in chapter 4. The 2 remote user type is a web or Internet Browser type of connection.
  • Page 35 Chapter 2 –Configuration So the first parameter you can modify for Client remote access is the “Server name:” This name is used to identify each Server. It will be shown in the Video Client software to distinguish established connections. The default is “VServer” when only one DVR system is available. There is no need to change this unless you feel you want to call it something special.
  • Page 36 Chapter 2 –Configuration The “Active” is the standard toggle icon to enable and disable the service. Again a warning is presented when you from the Active setting want to disable the service as show below: WEB Cameras, are the camera which you wish to present to a Browser client. Using the scroll bar, and the Tick boxes allow you to choose which cameras you wish to enable.
  • Page 37 Chapter 2 –Configuration 2.11 About From the main display, select the configuration Icon now select the This is a stand list of information about the system software version, memory space etc. © 2003 Michael J Archer v1.1 - 37 -...

  • Page 38: Video Explorer

    Chapter 3 Video Explorer 3.1 Selection The Video Explorer is where all recorder video activity is available to be interrogated. Firstly when you look at historic video data you do not affect the systems current recording abilities. The Leviathan DVR systems are called duplex or triplex whatever you consider correct. A common thing in most technology industries is to come up with new words to promote a feature which everyone now seems to offer, but neglect to mention.
  • Page 39 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer To accept your selection you need to click the Icon, if you do not wish to use the explorer you can of course click the cancel Icon For convenience the current date is displayed at the bottom of the window, as if you recall the system does remember the last selection you made, and it can be easy to forget that you are on the wrong month.

  • Page 40: Video Fragment

    Chapter 3 –Video Explorer 3.2 Video Fragment At far right of the screen will now show the video fragment much like below: This is a graphical representation of the recorded events. The very top information as below shows the information about the fragment that is displayed. This information is dynamic, in that when you move the mouse pointer over the area within the fragment the information will change to give you a reading at that position.
  • Page 41 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer So what the information tells us this following: 22.11 Is the current date that is 22 of November (11 11:59:59 Is the start time (Or the top of the fragment) 0000 This value shows how many extra days worth of data is available. Our example there is only one day, so 0 is show.
  • Page 42 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer Moving the mouse pointer over the video fragment with results in a few changes to the display, firstly the camera windows on the display area will be selected, shown by the coloured border, and also a larger border will flash around to show you this is now a new selection.

  • Page 43: Zoom Time

    Chapter 3 –Video Explorer 3.3 Zoom Time Now as soon as you left click within the Video fragment, the system will present the cameras with the video images recorded at that time. Each camera will show at the bottom right of the image the date and time stamp which is the last recorded image nearest that time.
  • Page 44 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer As you now can see, the top option “Back” is now no longer greyed out. Clicking this option will take the zoomed area back to the original selection, from the instance which you first selected the Video Explorer.

  • Page 45: Play Back

    Chapter 3 –Video Explorer 3.4 Play Back Once you have a video segment selected, trying to look at single frame is seems a slow process to get it at the correct time. So much like a Video recorder, the software has a very simple to use set of playback tools.

  • Page 46: Save Fragment

    Chapter 3 –Video Explorer 3.5 Save Fragment Once you have an event which you want to keep as evidence or such. The system has a function which saves the current Video Fragment selection, and creates this into a small Video Database. This option is the 2 Icon on the top of the display these top left Icons, are only available...
  • Page 47 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer You’ll notice now the following in the middle of the display area: And also you’ll have a status line at the top of the display as shown: This shows how the process is doing, with the blue line giving a indication of % done. The value at the right of this graphic is the remaining time left.

  • Page 48: Open Database

    Chapter 3 –Video Explorer 3.6 Open Database To now open a saved Video Database you only need to select the 1 Icon on the top of the display once inside the explorer. This will bring up the following dialog box: All you need to do is select the path of the database.

  • Page 49: Bookmarks

    Chapter 3 –Video Explorer 3.7 Bookmarks Like most feature rich applications the DVR system looks simple, but does contain as lot of functions which don’t at first time seem to be present. We feel that once you start to use these you’ll find that it indeed is very capable.
  • Page 50 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer To save a book mark all that you need to do is to set the video fragment to the position you wish to remember, of course this is done by just clicking the green area which will be shown by a white line. Then you just need to click one of the Red numbers 1 –...
  • Page 51 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer Click right button and choose Select Fragment option. Then point to start of event (Select fragment Start :) in our example this is the first bookmark. Point to end of event (Select fragment Stop :) in our example it is the second bookmark.

  • Page 52: Save Picture

    Chapter 3 –Video Explorer 3.8 Save Picture The save picture option is the way to capture a single from any of the displayed camera views. The system saves the picture in a high quality JPG file. JPG is the only format for single frames. JPG is one of the most widely accepted formats that exists, and is platform independent.
  • Page 53 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer This is similar to most saves in all window type applications. All you need to do here is enter the file name what you want to call the image. And click the “Save” and the image will be saved. You may notice the (None) at the right of “Save picture”...
  • Page 54 You’ll notice that when you save an image the systems will put the Camera name mark at the bottom left of the image, and also the Date and time stamp on the bottom right of this image. You can’t disable this feature.

  • Page 55: Search Motion

    Chapter 3 –Video Explorer 3.9 Search Motion Search motion is one of the most powerful functions on the Leviathan system. The ability to search any recorded motion within an area of any camera thought any section of the video database, makes this a very powerful tool.
  • Page 56 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer Now to search for motion you move the mouse to any of the cameras displayed. You’ll then notice the system will put a box at the cursor position, when you move it around. This same way as the save picture option works.
  • Page 57 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer You’ll notice the “Search motion” text next to the Search Icon, next to this is the search results graphic which gives you an indication of how much data to search through. Also notice the fragment time marker will reflect the search position.
  • Page 58 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer Now when you click any of the images with the results window, the system put the position market on the video database fragment. Remember this is a while line, and of course the image will be display on the active layout camera windows.

  • Page 59: Pic Tools

    Chapter 3 –Video Explorer 3.10 Pic Tools Pic tools are a small set of useful tools to try to give more detail within a frame of video. To activate the tools you select from the menu which is right click in anywhere in the Layout area. You’ll see it is just below the “Search Motion”.
  • Page 60 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer The “Restore original” will return the image back to its original state when any tool has been applied. Deinterlace (O) and Deinerlace (E) will show the image as a single field. “O” is the odd, and “E” is the even field.
  • Page 61 Chapter 3 –Video Explorer You’ll notice the Zoom function is now taken off. But you can see the results of the number plate in this case we are getting a closer look at. Notice that the image is not as blocky as you might expect, it still has artefacts but generally the image is smooth.

  • Page 62: Scheduler

    Chapter 4 Scheduler 4.1 Common Functions The scheduler functionality supposes to bring a flexibility and user-level customization for recording, alarming and maintenance capabilities. User Interface Functions There are several common things to control the all Scheduler operations. Trigger-button This type of a button has two states: enabled and disabled. The greened out state means enabling parameter or function, which is written on it (i.e.

  • Page 63: The Scheduler Interface

    Chapter 4 – Scheduler 4.2 The Scheduler Interface The scheduler functions can be accessed through “Scheduler” item of the right-click menu (right-click on the main VServer screen) or through the System Configuration , Camera Section. The all scheduler operations are based on tasks. Each task from system point of view is processed independently from the others and do not affect them.
  • Page 64 Chapter 4 – Scheduler • In the “Custom” mode one can define desired period of time and days schedule. To have an access to this dialog one should disable at first “24x7” setting. To operate on tasks each scheduler dialog has action-buttons. “New” is used to create new task and “Delete”...

  • Page 65: The Scheduler Structure

    Chapter 4 – Scheduler 4.3 The Scheduler Structure The Scheduler structure can be divided by its functions, as follows: Alerts: Notifies operator/s or remote users about motion detection events arising in one or more cameras. The alert tasks have the following parameters: •...
  • Page 66 Chapter 4 – Scheduler The “Zoom in”, “Highlight”, Sound and “Send E-mail” options have so called guard time to limit repeated notifications of continuously emergent alerts. These values define a time interval in seconds in which the only alert notification is allowed.

  • Page 67: Recording

    Chapter 4 – Scheduler 4.4 Recording These functions give possibility to schedule recording of cameras. The recording tasks have the following parameters: • Activation time schedule. • The list of cameras, for which the recording task are applied. • “Enabled” and “Disabled” trigger-button defines mode of operation. “Enabled”...

  • Page 68: Address Book

    Chapter 4 – Scheduler 4.5 Address Book The Address Book provides a place to store e-mail addresses and settings for easy access by the Scheduler interface. Although the entries in the address book are not the scheduling tasks, the common task options such as Name, Status, Activation Time and action-buttons are also applied to them.
  • Page 69 Chapter 4 – Scheduler SMS (Short Message Service) is supported through SMTP e-mail only. To provide SMS support the Mobile Service Provider should have the SMTP e-mail (Email-to- SMS) gateway implemented. From the VServer point of view SMS messages are ordinary e-mail messages that are directed to SMS gateway.

  • Page 70: System Events

    Chapter 4 – Scheduler 4.6 System Events Using the Systems Events one can receive information about operation, problems and system security events. The System Event tasks have the following parameters: • Activation time schedule • The list of the “system events” to monitor •...
  • Page 71 Chapter 4 – Scheduler • Required recipients whom the system events should be delivered are listed in the “Send E-Mail” list. To enable the sending e-mail one should check out corresponding boxes. This list shows preliminary entered in the “Address Book”...

  • Page 72: Options

    Chapter 4 – Scheduler 4.7 Options The Options section contains various Scheduler settings. • “SMTP server” specifies registered domain name of SMTP server for outgoing e-mail messages. One can get this information from ISP (Internet service Provider) or LAN administrator. •...
  • Page 73 Chapter 4 – Scheduler NOTE: • One should keep in mind that significantly decreasing the E-Mail guard time and/or creating too many tasks with e-mail notification will cause increasing outgoing SMTP traffic that negatively affect on a network performance. Also some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) consider too frequent e-mail sending as spam and can deny access to the SMTP service.

  • Page 74: Remote Client

    Chapter 5 Remote Client 5.1 Overview The remote client is an application with allows connection to the Server DVR system. The system is based on a user / password entry and only operates only over a TCP/IP network. The users and password settings are covered in section 2.9 The remote application has a few features with are helpful in monitoring and viewing your system from a remote station.
  • Page 75 Chapter 5 – Remote Client 5.2 Installing Firstly to Install the LJD Client software, which is able to run on Windows 9x, 2000 and XP, You look on the CD which accompanies the UNIT. All current versions are also available on the website.

  • Page 76: Lan Connection

    Chapter 5 – Remote Client 5.3 LAN Connection Requirements are a Cat5 LAN cable, which the connector is at the rear of the unit. See Chapter 1.2 for diagram. If you system was pre-configured with an IP then you must talk to your system administrator who will be able to assist in setting the IP of the DVR system, or assist you in the IP number information which is correct for your LAN enjoinment.

  • Page 77: Modem / Isdn (Option)

    Chapter 5 – Remote Client 5.4 Modem / ISDN To talk to this unit via a modem or ISDN, the following steps will need to be followed. 1. Create a Dial Up connection to talk to the Server Unit 2. Install and run the Client Because the recommended way to talk to the Server Unit is via a LAN / High Speed link, modems are not the most flexible way to transmit video information;...

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