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XUSB4DVR
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4 Camera 25fps USB DVR Card
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Before you begin
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Please unpack all boxes carefully and identify that all the parts are present.
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Do not cut the cables, this will void the warranty.
Model:
XUSB4DVR
4 Camera 25fps USB DVR Card
and Software
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  • Page 1 CCTV XUSB4DVR Model: 4 Camera 25fps USB DVR Card and Software Before you begin • Please unpack all boxes carefully and identify that all the parts are present. • Do not cut the cables, this will void the warranty. Model:...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    1.3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ................6 1.4 SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS ................6 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION................ 8 2.1 VIDEO CAPTURE CARD HARDWARE............. 8 2.1.1 XUSB4DVR Card Hardware.............. 8 2.2 INSTALL VIDEO CAPTURE CARD DRIVER............8 3 MAIN DISPLAY INTERFACE ............... 11 3.1 LOGIN......................11 3.2 DISPLAY CONTROL PANEL ................
  • Page 3 App 1.1.2 Why can’t I run SmartDVR in the Windows 2003 OS? ..40 App 1.1.3 ‘Unspecified error’ in the End of Installation ......40 App 1.1.4 Cannot find XUSB4DVR in Device Manager ......40 APPENDIX 1.2 HOW TO USE SMARTDVR............41 App 1.2.1 What are the meanings of the indicator lights .......
  • Page 4 XUSB4DVR User Guide App 1.2.4 How to set the Auto Reboot function? ........41 App 1.2.5 How to quickly use the Schedule Record function? ....41 App 1.2.6 What are the byte rates for different image qualities? ..41 App 1.2.7 The frame rate seems to be lower than what I set? ....42 App 1.2.8 Why I can’t select more channels to backup? ......

  • Page 5: Introduction

    1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW Thank you for choosing this Xvision USB Card and Software. The USB Card adopts MPEG4 compression format, and allows up to 4 cameras to be recorded in real-time for live surveillance and playback, all from a PC/laptop. The cameras can also be viewed and played back a remote PC on the same LAN or on the Internet.

  • Page 6: System Requirements

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 7. Real Time Recording The USB Card can support up to 4 channels with a maximum frame rate of 25 fps. 8. Image Quality Features MPEG4 compression, which greatly reduces HDD usage and supports 352x288 and 704x576 (PAL) standard resolutions. Also allows you to adjust the image colour for each channel, including contrast, lightness, hue and saturation.

  • Page 7: System Specifications

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 1.4 SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS Format: PAL/NTSC Resolution: 352x288 / 704x576 (PAL) Maximum Frame rate: 25 fps (PAL) Screen set: Resolution 1024x768, 16 bits or 32 bits Compression code rate: 50kbps – 1.2Mbps Data format: MPEG4...

  • Page 8: Hardware Installation

    Fig 2.1 XUSB4DVR USB Video Capture Card Please Note: • Make sure that your PC USB interface is 2.0; the XUSB4DVR card can only support USB 2.0. • Please follow the steps to safely remove the USB card: Right click on the Taskbar > Stop device > pull out the USB card.
  • Page 9 XUSB4DVR User Guide Select Video format and then click ‘Next’ to continue. For UK video format, select PAL Fig 2.3 Select video format After this process, the application package SmartDVR will begin installation. Select a suitable destination option, and click ‘Next’.
  • Page 10 XUSB4DVR User Guide The Software will finish installing. Click ‘Finish’. Now, restart the computer and start the surveillance program. Fig 2.6 Driver and application installation finished You will see a shortcut will have been created on the desktop: Fig 2.6.1 Shortcut of SmartDVR...

  • Page 11: Main Display Interface

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 3 MAIN DISPLAY INTERFACE When you run the SmartDVR program the Main Display interface will appear. The display will be locked until you Login. TIME & DATE MAIN DISPLAY CAMERA STATUS ALARM OUT STATUS LOGIN E-MAP SEARCH & PLAYBACK...

  • Page 12: Flip

    XUSB4DVR User Guide Fig 3.1 SmartDVR Main Display Interface NEXT AUTO DISK SPACE PAGE DWELL INDICATOR 3.2.1 Next Page When in 1CH or 4CH display mode click the NEXT PAGE button to quickly switch to the next channel in the display according to the mode.

  • Page 13: Record Setup

    Select the image recording quality here. • Audio In The XUSB4DVR can support two channels of audio. You can choose up to two camera channels to enable the audio recording from these corresponding camera(s). Please Note: You can select more than one record mode.

  • Page 14: Record Status Panel

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 3.3.4 Record Status Panel The meanings of the indicator lights in the Record Status Panel are: Normal State (no light, greyed out) Manual Record mode (lime green light) Schedule Record mode (bottle green light) Motion Detection mode State (yellow light)

  • Page 15: Sensor Alarm Record Mode

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 3.3.7 Sensor Alarm Record Mode Users can use sensors to trigger Sensor Alarm Record mode for corresponding channels. In this mode, the Record Status indicator light in the ALARM section will turn red. 3.3.8 Recycling Record You can enable the Recycling Record function and set the recording storage sequence for HDD partitions.

  • Page 16: System Setup

    Note:De-Interlacing will use much more of the PC’s processing speed. Storage Disk The XUSB4DVR system shows all the available HDD partitions. You can select one or more of the partitions that will be used in sequence from top to bottom. Check the Recycle option to allow the...

  • Page 17: Schedule Configuration

    PC/laptop, the SmartDVR system will access the system automatically with details you enter. 4.2 SCHEDULE CONFIGURATION Click to enter the Schedule Configuration page. The XUSB4DVR SmartDVR system offers powerful schedule configuration options. Every channel has three kinds of record modes: Schedule Record, Motion Detection Record and Sensor Alarm Record.

  • Page 18: Motion Detection Configuration

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 4.4 MOTION DETECTION CONFIGURATION Click to enter Motion Detection Configuration page. Definition of the setup items: Sensitivity Set motion detection sensitivity here. Select all Selects all of the area of the channel as the detection area Clear Clears all the detection areas so you can customise the detection area.

  • Page 19: Alarm Record

    Sensor If users have sensors combined with certain alarm, when the sensors have been activated, then it will trigger the selected output alarms. The XUSB4DVR card has a maximum of 4 sensors. Motion Users can set motion detection alarm output by different alarms and remote alarm. The XUSB4DVR...

  • Page 20: Auto Mail Function Tab

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 4.5.4 Auto Mail Function Tab Click ‘Auto Mail’ tab to enter the following area to setup Auto Mail. This function will allow you to receive automated emails to your inbox when ever an alarm is triggered. • Set receiver and sender’s E-mail, SMTP server address and password.

  • Page 21: Serial Ports Setup

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 4.6.2 Serial ports setup First enable the P.T.Z control function of a certain camera and select a port number in P.T.Z Protocol Setup, and then setup the corresponding parameters using the dropdown menus to select the required values.

  • Page 22: Delete User

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 4.7.3 Delete User Fig 4.15 Delete user confirmation Select the user name in User Configuration (refer to Fig 4.13), and click ‘Delete’. Confirm by clicking ‘OK’, as shown in Fig 4.15. 4.8 E-MAP CONFIGURATION Click on the Main Display interface to enter the E-map page (Fig 4.16).

  • Page 23: View The Map

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 4.8.2 View the map Click to enter E-map, where you can view the distribution of all the cameras in the map, as Fig 4.16 shows. When a camera channel alarms, ie. if motion is detected, the corresponding camera icon will flash yellow to indicate an alarm signal.

  • Page 24: T.z Control

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 5 PTZ CONTROL Click in the Main Display interface to enter the PTZ Control interface. (Refer to Fig 5.1) Users can control P.T.Z devices by the function buttons on the right side, as shown. In the lower bar, there are five function buttons, i.e.
  • Page 25 XUSB4DVR User Guide Click on the button to set a Preset point and Fig 5.4 Preset change Preset point name. Every Group includes multiple Preset points. In case users select preset1, preset2 and preset3 for group1, preset1, preset2 and preset3 will be automatically accessed in sequence after users select group1 for auto scout.

  • Page 26: Record Search And Playback

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 6 RECORD, SEARCH & PLAYBACK Click in the SmartDVR Main Display Interface (refer to Fig 6.1) to access to the following area: This interface is divided into 4 parts, i.e. Record Search area, Record Playback area, Record Play area and other functions area.
  • Page 27 XUSB4DVR User Guide Next Frame. This button is valid when playing back by single channel playback pause mode Users can select suitable play speed in the area as below: Fig 6.3 Play Speed Controller The following area shows the record files of different channels: Fig 6.4 Recorded Files browser...

  • Page 28: Other Functions

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 6.3 OTHER FUNCTIONS 6.3.1 Record File Backup Click to enter the Backup menu. You can select corresponding cameras and copy the record files to another path in this area. This is the file backup function of the system. The...
  • Page 29 XUSB4DVR User Guide When in single channel playback pause mode, the Colour Control Panel (Fig 6.7) will appear automatically, in which you can make colour adjustments for the current channel, including brightness, contrast, saturation and hue. Press ‘Default’ to recover to the original settings.

  • Page 30: Image Zoom In / Out

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 6.3.4 Image Zoom In / Out When in single channel playback state, the zoom control icons will appear. Zoom Out: Select and click on the channel to zoom out the image. By clicking continuously, the image will be zoomed out continuously.

  • Page 31: Remote Surveillance And Playback

    7 REMOTE SURVEILLANCE & PLAYBACK 7.1 REMOTE LIVE SURVEILLANCE The XUSB4DVR surveillance system supports Remote Surveillance through LAN, Internet and Intranet. Simply enable the web cam function of the system on a computer which is connected to Internet, and the computer system will become an Internet web cam server. To view remotely on any other computer that connects to Internet or the same LAN network, simply input the SmartDVR server address in IE browser to view high quality real time image from the server and also control any connected P.T.Z...
  • Page 32 XUSB4DVR User Guide Select ‘Live Surveillance’, and click ‘OK’ to install Remote Surveillance client-side program as below. In the next section, we will learn more about Remote Playback. When connecting to the server for the first time, the following window will appear. See Fig 7.3.
  • Page 33 XUSB4DVR User Guide Click ‘Next’ after inputting the folder name or select the default name, and then press ‘Finish’ to finish installation. Fig 7.6 Register program folder name Then the WebCam main interface will appear. Click and input User Name and Password, as shown in Fig 7.7.

  • Page 34: Remote Playback

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 7.2 REMOTE PLAYBACK 7.2.1 Remote Playback Server Configuration For the remote playback function, you should first enable WebCam Service and Remote Playback Service in Basic Configuration (refer to Fig 4.1 Fig 7.9 Remote Playback Service configuration and Fig 7.9).

  • Page 35: Remote Playback Configuration And Control Setup

    XUSB4DVR User Guide The functions in the Remote Playback interface are: Log in Setup Exit Play Pause Begin / Stop record Slow down playing speed Accelerate playing speed Play at the original speed 7.2.3 Remote Playback Configuration and Control Setup...
  • Page 36 XUSB4DVR User Guide Click on first icon on the bottom left of the screen, next to where the date and time information is shown. Select the time period you wish to playback, then click ‘OK’ to save the setting and return to the main interface.

  • Page 37: Mobile Surveillance

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 7.3 MOBILE SURVEILLANCE 7.3.1 Introduction to Mobile Surveillance In SmartDVR system, the mobile surveillance can be setup by connecting a mobile phone to the system. The function is supported by Windows Mobile system and Symbian Series 60 Developer Platform 2.0 Intelligent Mobile Phone system.

  • Page 38: Client Configuration Of Symbian 60

    XUSB4DVR User Guide Click ‘PCam v1.0.6.5291’. Fig 7.19 Downloading dialog box A dialog box will pop up as shown in Fig 7.19. Click “Yes” to start installing. PCam will be opened after the download is Fig 7.20 Main Interface finished.
  • Page 39 XUSB4DVR User Guide Click ‘install package’ to start downloading. A confirmation pop up window will appear after downloading is finished. Click ‘Yes’. The system will then ask you whether to install the ‘SCam’ application. Click ‘Yes’. Fig 7.23 Connect to the Server & Installation popup A SCam shortcut icon appears on the Fig 7.24 SCam shortcut...

  • Page 40: Appendix 1: Frequently Asked Questions

    APPENDIX 1.1 ABOUT INSTALLATION Appendix 1.1.1 Cannot install the SmartDVR Driver Possible causes: 1. XUSB4DVR has not been plugged in properly. Please unplug the card and install it again or change to another USB slot. 2. Not compatible with PC hardware.

  • Page 41: Appendix 1.2 How To Use Smartdvr

    XUSB4DVR User Guide APPENDIX 1.2 HOW TO USE SMARTDVR Appendix 1.2.1 What are the meanings of the indicator lights? Refer to Chapter 3.3.3 and Fig 3.6 to learn more. Appendix 1.2.2 How do the different record modes work? Users can set more than one record mode in Record setup, but there is only one valid record mode for a certain period.

  • Page 42: App 1.2.7 The Frame Rate Seems To Be Lower Than What I Set

    XUSB4DVR User Guide Appendix 1.2.7 The frame rate seems to be lower than what I set? There is frame loss during image switching therefore the real record frame rate is relatively lower than the theoretic value. Appendix 1.2.8 Why I can’t select more channels to backup? Drag the mouse in the channel selection area, or utilize Shift and Ctrl key to select multiple channels.

  • Page 43: App 1.3.5 What Should I Do If The Internet Speed Is Quite Slow

    XUSB4DVR User Guide 6. The client-side has installed firewall software that may prevent video transmission. 7. MPEG4 codec has not been installed properly, please download the new version of WebCam. 8. Poor network connection or speed. Appendix 1.3.5 What should I do if the Internet speed is quite slow? The more channels opened, the slower the video transmission speed is, therefore try to use one channel display mode when the network speed is slow.

  • Page 44: App 1.4.4 Why Is There A Delay To Playback, And Why Is It Slow To Close And Open The Driver

    2. There are too many recorded files or too many fragments on the HDD, therefore it takes time to search for the files. You need to delete the files that you do not need, or run disk defragmenter now. 3. XUSB4DVR card problem. 4. Computer hardware system is too outdated. Appendix 1.4.5 Why I can’t playback? Possible causes: 1.

  • Page 45: App 1.4.9 If The System Time Must Be Changed, Make The Following Preparations First

    XUSB4DVR User Guide Appendix 1.4.9 If the system time must be changed, make the following preparations first: 1. If new time is later than current computer time (for example, change 2006/01/01 00:00:00 (current system time) to 2007/01/01 00:00:00 (target time)), the change can be made instantly;...

  • Page 46: Appendix 2: Quick Start

    6. Reboot computer once it completed. 7. Once you restart, there will be "SmartDVR" icon on the Desktop . Open it. If this application recognizes the XUSB4DVR card, the program will be opened. 8. First login to the application. 9. Once the application gets started, now connect the Camera.

  • Page 47: Internet

    AND PORT FORWARDING. PORTS THAT NEEDS TO BE FORWARDED WILL BE: 80, 1159, 1259 AND 13551. CHECK YOUR ROUTER MANUAL ON HOW TO SET THAT UP. On Remote Client Computer: 1. Check client computer meets minimum PC requirements needed to run the XUSB4DVR software. (see Appendix 2) 2. Open up Internet Explorer.

  • Page 48: Appendix 3 Function Trees

    XUSB4DVR User Guide APPENDIX 3 Function Trees...
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  • Page 51: Appendix 4 Notes

    XUSB4DVR User Guide APPENDIX 4 Notes:...
  • Page 52 CCTV TECHNICAL SUPPORT: For Technical Support for any Xvision product please contact your local distributor. LIMITED WARRANTY: This product is supplied with a 1 Year warranty. The Warranty excludes products that have been misused, (including accidental damage) and damage caused by normal wear and tear.

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