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DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM

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Model:16120 / 16240

Notice: Not compatible with 915 chipset.
This is mentioned in the 16120 page on our website where you purchased this item.

Make sure that you install the software before you install the DVR card or cards in to you're PC!!

System requirements:
CPU : Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHZ or higher (Intel Chipset should be 845 or 865)
Notice: Not compatible with 915 chipset.
RAM : 128MB or higher
VGA : ATI Compatible AGP Graphic Card, ATI Radion 7000 series
Set your screen resolution to: 1024 × 768, 32bit Color before installing the software. (Mandatory)

HDD : You must have either one hard drive that is separated into two partitions or two hard drives
This software will be installed on the OS partition
and the video will be recorded in the 2nd partition or a 2nd hard drive.

Backup Storage : CD R/W, Tape Backup System, DVD-RAM, etc
Requires: Direct X 7.0 or later
Driver : DVR Driver from the CD.

DVR System contents:
DVR System User Manual (On The CD)
DVR System Capture Board
DVR Application Software Diskette
Attention! Before setup:
Copy the entire CD to a directory on your PC incase you misplace the CD
check if Direct X 7.0 or higher is installed
Set you Video Display resolution to 1024×768 mode & 32bit color
By default there is no Password set for the software.
If you lose your password after installing the software and setting a password you will need to find the
"dvr2" file on your PC and delete it. Next time you run the DVR program it will default back to having no
password like when you first installed the software.

System Overview:
Here we will go over each part of the DVR software.
First we will show you the entire screen shot.

Then we will break down each part of that screen to describe what

each section of that screen does.

We have started a open FORUM where you can post comments and ask questions

about this system. Here is a link to that forum: http://www.dallas-cctv.com/forum/

DVR Control Panel:

Notice there are three tabs here: Control, State, Search

Information: Displays date & other system information

Work State: Control recording, motion sensors, alarms
Record:        Not used
Motion:        Not used
Alarm:          Not used
Setup:          Opens the systems setup menu
Network:     Opens program to access other remote systems
WebCam:    Not used
Adjust:        Adjust the color and brightness settings

PTZ: adjust Pan / Tilt / Zoom for the selected camera

Tab mode: change between system panels

	Camera Select: select the camera you wish to view or adjust
When you have one camera up in full screen mode this indicator will show the camera you are looking at. When you are viewing more the one camera in the main screen you can use these buttons to select the camera that you want to work with. You can accomplish the same thing by clicking on the camera windows in the main viewing area.

	Mode Select: control the number of cameras displayed on the main screen.
	Changes the main viewing area to full screen regardless of the split mode your in. When in full screen mode the right side controls are not visible. You have to press this button again to return to normal viewing mode.
	Brings the currently selected camera to full screen, no splits
	Four camera split mode
	Seven camera split mode
	Nine camera split mode
	Thirteen camera split mode
	16 camera split mode
	This button starts the auto scanning or sequencing operation. If you are in one camera mode then the system will rotate through all the cameras one by one bringing them to full screen. If you select this options while in multi camera model you will notice that the Green Boarder around the select camera will move from camera to camera until it has gone through all the camera in the current view. When the last camera in the current view is reached the system will switch the view to the rest of the cameras. Basically this function rotates through the cameras like a sequencer. NOTE: You have to press this button again to stop the sequencing.
	Power: Close Application Gives you the option to quit the program or log off current user.

*DVR State* Panel**:

	Information: Displays date & other system information
	Indicating: Shows the status of cameras Indicators are in this order:
	Sensor Detect:
	Motion Detect: Displays the status of motion sensors
	Alarm: Displays the status of Alarms
	HDD Capacity: displays current HDD capacity
	Event: Displays information for each event in the system as they occur An ongoing list of events that the system encounters such as shut downs, logins, error messages.
	Event Log: Records all system events
	Event logs are saved every day. The event history can be accesses by pressing the event log button You can go back through the even logs with the event calendar:

*DVR Search* Panel**

	Information: Displays date & other system information
	Play Controls

Fast rewind

Play backward

Stop

Play - While in single camera view you have variable play speeds
You don't have this control when playing back multiple cameras at one time.

Fast forward

Jump to the beginning of the recording for the current day

Jump back to the previous even in the dynamic watch log

Displays events in the dynamic watch log (Events are detected motion)

Jump forward to the next event in the dynamic watch log

Jump to the end of the recording for the current day

When playing video back for an individual camera you have additional controls for speed that will appear under the calendar as shown below. These options are not there when playing back multiple cameras at one time.

Zoom & Brightness:
control zoom in/out & brightness of recorded images
Note: these controls only work if your are viewing one camera. Not in multi camera view mode.
The ZOOM is a digital zoom. Once you have zoomed in on a image you can put your mouse over the zoomed image and mode it around in the viewable area.
BRIGHTNESS: control controls the brightness...
DEFAULT: button sets things back to their default settings.

Access:

Blur: Blurs the image... Why? I don't know...

Sharp: Sharpens the image

Normal: Sets the blur and sharpness back to default settings

Save - When pressed you will see this window:

AVI:

This will let you save images as a AVI formatted movie.
Select AVI, Press OK

You will see this screen:

Type in a file name for your video.

Here we used: test-video-06-10-2005.avi

Now you will see this window:

Press OK, or you can select another format.

The video is now being saved to the hard drive. When you reach a the point where

you want to stop the video, press the STOP button. The Video will stop.

The video is now save in AVI format where you specified for it to be saved.

Now you can burn it to a CD for distribution.

Press the QUIT button to exit the save function.

Other SAVE options:

BMP Format (Water Mark) Will save the image (Single image) that you have on the screen with a water mark for authentication.
You use the water mark verifying program that in in the DVR directory on your computer to verify the water mark.

Other SAVE options:

JPEG format - Saves the image that you have on the screen in jpeg format with no water mark.

Access Controls: (Continued)

Print: Prints the image currently on the screen
Backup: See below

Backup:

Select a Date range, hit start back up button.

Bookmark: Make a Bookmark of the location of the recorded image

When your watching a video and you come across something of interest you can make a bookmark.

This lets you jump directly to this spot in the video later. Bookmarks are saved everyday. So when you use the calendar to go to a specific day you can see all the bookmarks that you set for that date.
Press the Bookmark button:
This screen will appear:

Press the ADD button to mark your current position in the video.

You can also select a book mark and press the DELETE button to remove that bookmark.

The DELETEALL button deletes all the listed book marks for the current day.

To jump to a book marked video, highlight that bookmark by clicking on it, then click OK.

You will be taken to that place in the video that that bookmark was set for.

Searching for previously recorded video:

Using the calendar:

The left and right arrows at the top of the calendar move back and forth through the months.

Days that have recorded video will be BOLD and UNDERLINED.

Select the date that you area interested in...

Time Bar: displays recorded videos for a selected date
The Date and time displayed at the top of this screen show where you are at in the video time line.
The RED line also shows where you are at in the time line. Move the RED bar to the time you would like to view.

The time bar shows the hours of the day across the top in military time.

To the far left you see the camera name of the cameras. You can use the up and down arrows to the left to change the camera shown.

the focus button zooms in or out on the time that you have selected with the red bar: Here is an example:

You can use the left and right arrows to slide the visible time line left and right.

The UPDATE button will update the time line to show video that has been added while you were in this mode.

Once you have the red bar at the location that your interested in you can press the play buttons described earlier.

Blue marks indicate where actual video has been recorded.

Note: You can play back video while watching multiple camera at one time or you can bring and camera to full view and watch the video for just that camera.

Use the MODE SELECT bar to select the view you want to play the video back with.

DVR System Setup mode:

Note: Changes that you make in these screens will NOT be saved unless you click on the OK button at the bottom of this screen.

The OK button will NOT be visible because it's just out of sight below the bottom of the screen.

You will need to move the screen up by putting your mouse pointer at the very bottom of the BLUE bar across the TOP of this window to drag the screen up just a bit until you can see the OK button.

SYSTEM TAB

System Administer Area:

	Type in the name of your company or DVR name
	In America we use the NTSC standard, Select NTSC. They use PAL in Europe and other countries.
	If checked, when you exit the system the computer will shut off. It's best to uncheck this option while testing.
	If checked, Green squares will appear in the main display window to show where motion is being detected. The green squares are not recorded with the video. This options is normally turned off.
	If checked, the name for each camera will be displayed in the main window for each camera. This also controls weather or not the green motion indicator and red record indicator squares will be displayed while watching the main viewing window. If unchecked these items will not be displayed at all during normal operation. This options is normally left on.
	When you first install the software you use this button to have the software check each video input channel to see if a video signal is present. On inputs that have a signal present the software will turn on that channel in the software. This can also be done manually by going to the DEVICE tab in the setup screen.
*Shut System Power Management:* If Disable is checked the system will never reboot. If System Shut is checked the system will shut down at the time indicated in the time: box. If System Reboot is checked the system will restart at the time indicated in the time: box. Because The Windows Operating System gets more and more unstable the longer it runs its a very good idea to have the system reboot itself every day.

Problem:
When the system reboots it may stop at the windows login screen meaning that the DVR program will not be automatically loaded until someone types in the login information to get past the Windows login screen.

Solution:

Note: If your computer does not stop to ask for a login then skip this section
How to automatically log on to a user account in Windows XP
Note This process only works if the computer is not joined to a domain.
Requirements
The Welcome screen must be available
There must be only one user account on the computer
The user account must not have a password
Make the Welcome Screen available
To make the Welcome screen available, follow these steps:
Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click User Accounts.
Click Change the way users log on or off.
Click to select the Use the Welcome screen for fast and easy logon check box.
Click OK.
Remove the password from a user account
To remove the password from a user account, follow these steps:
Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click User Accounts.
Click the user account.
Click Remove my password.
Type the password in the Type your current password box, and then click Remove Password.
APPLIES TO
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

Network Administer:

	If set to none, no network connection will work Set to TCP/IP for LAN and WAN connections Set to Modem if you have a modem installed. The computer will answer the phone line and connect. Will be very slow.
	The higher you set this video transmission quality the slower images will appear to the remote location but they will be clearer images. If you want faster video set the video quality lower. Things will move faster at the remote location but image quality will suffer. Middle setting works best.
	This is the port that the DVR software will be looking for incoming connections on. You will need to make sure that your remote client software is set to the same port number you have set here. More info on the remote client later.
	Not sure what this is used for... It doesn't seem to affect anything that has become obvious.
*Storage Administer:*

When set to ONCE the system will stop recording when the hard drive is full. Probably not a good idea
When set to CYCLE the system will start deleting the oldest video to make room for the new incoming video.

Press this button - You will see this screen below

This screen determines where your video will be recorded.

The left side shows you which hard drives are available for you to use. During the installation the software will automatically pick another drive other then C: where the Operating system and DVR software is installed.

The Right side shows the hard drives that the system will record video to.

You can highlight one of the drives on the left and press the "Disk Append" button and that drive will be added to to the right side making that disk available for recording. If you have two drives in the right side as soon as the first drive in the list fills up the software will automatically start recording on the 2nd disk you have listed on the right side.

To remove a disk from the right side so the software won't use it, highlight the disk on the right side that you want to make unavailable for recording and press the "Disk Delete" button and that disk will be removed from the available drive list.

Press this button and you will see this screen below

This screen determines where the software will look for video to play back using the Search function in the DVR software. By default this should match the settings in the record path as described above. However, if you have copied the recorded files to another location for backup then you could use this screen to point the play back path to the location where you backed up recorded video. If you do this you will need to remember to set this path back to it's default so that you can continue to use the DVR Search software to review recently recorded video.

Just like setting the record path as described above you can add and remove disks as needed.
You will most likely never use this option.

Dynamic Monitor Buzzer Duration & Dynamic Monitor Buzzer

Dynamic Monitor Buzzer Duration - This determines how long the Dynamic Monitor Buzzer will stay active.

The Dynamic Monitor Buzzer brings cameras to full screen when motion is detected in front of cameras that are checked.

For example, if you had CH1 checked and something moved in front of camera one, Camera one will come to full screen for the amount of time you have the Dynamic Monitor Buzzer Duration set for.

If you have no cameras checked then the Dynamic Monitor Buzzer Duration is not used.

If you have the Dynamic Monitor Buzzer Duration set to ZERO then the cameras you have checked in Dynamic Monitor Buzzer don't have any affect.

I guess this would be a good feature if you have a location where there isn't very much motion. Using this feature can be pretty annoying if there is a lot of motion. Most people don't use this option.

Auto Switch Interval

Dynamic Monitor Buzzer Duration & Dynamic Monitor Buzzer

TV-OUT Management 1 & 2
Note: Notice that the TV-OUT2 is grayed out in this example. This is because this software was running with a 16120 card, not a 16240 card.

If this was a 16240 card then you would have 2 TV outs because each card has one TV out. 16240 has two cards. 16120 has onlyone.

The Auto Switch Interval determines how long each camera is sent to the TV output. Only cameras that are checked in the TV-OUT1 and TV-OUT2 will be outputted to the the video output connection on the card or cards.

For example: If you had camera 1, 3 and 5 checked in TV-OUT1 and you had the Auto Switch Interval set to 10 then the system would connect camera 1 to the TV out for 10 seconds, then it would connect camera 3 to the TV output for 10 seconds and then it would connect camera 5 to the TV output for 10 seconds. At this point it would start again with camera 1.

*DEVICE TAB - "CAMERA SETTINGS"*

	Here you can manually turn on and off camera inputs. Cameras with a check mark area active. You can Change the recording resolution for each camera. Here they are all set to 320x240. They can be set as high as 640x480. The Event Record determines the recording speed when and event like motion has been detected. Normally the cameras recording speed is determined by the RECORD FRAME setting. But when an EVENT happens you can have the recording speed, speed up by setting the EVENT RECORD FRAME setting.

	When you first go into the Device Tab it will look like this. Click on the + sign in front of the Camera option to show all the individual cameras.
	It will look like this.
Click on the first camera in the list. Here it's shown as "Front Counter" You will see "Camera1" As you can see below we have renamed camera 1 from "Camer1" to " Front Counter". This is done in the Name box shown to the right of the list. You can do this for each camera in the list.
Now lets break down the Device Management TAB area to see what each option in this area does.
	The name area is where you can change the default name from Camera1 to whatever you would like it to be. In this example we have renamed it to "Front Counter". The Quality determines the quality that images will be saved in when motion is detected. The Duration setting determines how long the software will continue to record when motion is detected.
	The Sensitivity slider determines how sensitive the motion detection is. The RANGE SETTING open the masking area. Press the RANGE button and the following screen will appear.
	The areas shown with the blue grid lines show where motion will be detected in. Motion will not be detected in the areas with there is no grid. Click the SETTING radio button will add grid as you drag your mouse across the viewing area. Click the CLEANUP radio button and grid will be removed where you drag your mouse. Press the CLEANUP ALL button and all the grid will be removed and no motion will be detected until you re-add the grid to some area of the screen. Press OK to save you changes. This window will close.
	Pan / Tilt / Zoom camera set up...
	If you press this button the setup settings for all cameras will be set exactly like the current camera that you have selected. You normally wouldn't want to use this option.
*DEVICE TAB - "Alarm" Settings*	More Later
*DEVICE TAB - "Sensor" Settings*	More Later
*DEVICE TAB - "Audio" Settings*	More Later
*DEVICE TAB - "Beep" Settings*	More Later

EVENT TAB - "SETTINGS"

More on the EVENT TAB later

*COLANDER TAB - "SETTINGS"*
	W: Display: Will only display the camera. R: Record: Record all full time. M: Dynamic Watch: Record only when there is motion A: Record & Dynamic Watch Records all the time at the normal recording rate but will speed up when motion is present. Check the RADIO button to select the camera that you would like to make changes to. Set the Setting Select to the option that you want. Drag your mouse across the time and day to change the setting in the time grid.
	In this example the system will record full time (Option R) on Sunday and Saturday. Sunday 00:00 to 23:50 (24 hours) Monday through Friday: It will record full time (Option R) from 00:00 to 05:59. At 06:00 (6am) it will only record when there is motion present (Option M) until 18:59. At 18:59 (6:59pm) it will go back to recording full time (Option R) from 19:00 to 23:59 Same for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.