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4M SERIES (NETWORK STANDALONE DVR) CLI ENT USER ’ S MANUAL DGP Securi ty 2052 St. John’ s Bluff Road, Jacksonville, FL 32246 website: http://www.discount-security-camera s.net e m a i l : mail to:Tech@videod vr.com Tel: 866.301.7680 Fax: 904.727.3411 1[...]
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IND EX 1. BASIC ENVIRO NME NT 1) Minimum PC system requirements: 2) Notice 3) Initial s etup fo r Dyn amic I P sup port 2. 4M CLI ENT MENUS 1) Live Display 2) Search (Playback) 3) Pan/T ilt 4) Client Setup 3. CLIENT AVI BACKUP 4. USB M EMO RY CLIE NT P LAY BACK 2[...]
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1. BASIC EN VIRON MEN T 1) Minimum PC system requirements: (1) CPU: Higher than P4 1.4 G (2) Memory: 256MB (3) VGA: 32MB (AGP) - Recommende d: Highe r than A TI Radeon 7000 3 2MB and nV idia Riva TNT2 32MB (4) OS: Windows 98 SE, Win2K, WinXP 2) Notice (1) Poor PC system specs and low-speed Internet connection envi ronment may deteriorate the image [...]
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2. 4M Client Menus 1) Live Display Function Keys Descriptions Y ou can play back the reco rded images by time and date. Y ou can pan/tilt specific cameras 4[...]
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Y ou can setup the DVR co ntrol enviro nment. Y ou exit t he program Function Keys Descriptions Y ou connect to the DVR after “client setup”. Y ou set up information to get connected to the server . Y ou log-in to access the DVR. Y ou can see one channel in full mode. When doub le-clicked, you can have sequential display . Y ou can see four cha[...]
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2) Search (Playback) Playback Buttons Descriptions Y ou can search the dates for recorde d data. Y ou playback backwa rd in a fast mode. Y ou stop play back. Y ou playback at a normal spe ed. (x1) 6[...]
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Y ou playback fast. ~ Y ou change th e channel mod es from 1ch~ 16ch. Y ou set the time to search. Y ou return t o the display mode from search m ode. If you click on “DA TE” button, you will see a calendar in the left and recorded time data in th e right. If you click on a specific date and double-cli ck any tim e data in the right, you can pl[...]
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3) Pan/T ilt P AN/TIL T Descriptions ~ Y ou can change the Pan /T ilt display modes from 1ch~16ch. Mouse left- button click If you click on a specific channel a red b oundary appears . Y ou tilt a camera downward.(The button toggles between tilt and stop.) Y ou tilt a camera upward.(The button togg les between tilt and stop) Y ou pan a camera left.[...]
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Y ou pan/tilt automatically .(The button tog gles between pan/tilt and stop) Power on/off. Y ou can zoom in(+) or out(-). Y ou can focus in(+) or out(- ). Y ou control the Iris.(Iris availability depend s on pan/tilt protocol) Y ou control the W iper .(W ip er availability depends on pan/tilt protocol) Y ou control the Light.(Light availability dep[...]
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4) Client Setup 10[...]
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Functions Descriptions IP DVR IP . Network POR T DVR network por t. Camera Camera nam e on/of f Sta tu s Status(Li ve, Search) on/of f Overlay (OSD) on/off Ti m e T ime on/off 3. CLIENT A VI Backup 1) If you mouse-right-click on the image you see the fo llowing. Y ou first click on the chan nel selection. 11[...]
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2) Now you see the ch annel selection mode . Y ou tick on the chan nels you would like to record and then click on “OK”. 3) Now , you mouse-right-click on the image again, an d you see the following and click on “SA VE A VI”. 4) Y ou are now ready to record the imag es in A VI format. Y ou click on “OK”. 12[...]
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5) When you want to stop re cording, you mouse- right-click on the image and select “ST OP A VI”. (Y ou can check the rec orded A VI files under the “C:” directory with the file name of the current year , month, and date form at.) 5. USB MEMOR Y CLIENT PLA YBACK 13[...]
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After you insert the recorded USB memory in the client computer , you run the cli ent software. Y ou mouse-right on the s oftware and y ou see the following. Y ou click on “O pen File”, and can find files with exten sions of “.DV R” in the memory . Now you can playback the U SB backup i mages. DGP Securi ty 2052 St. John’ s Bluff Road, Ja[...]