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Pearl Mini User Guide Restart recording
2. Do one of the following:
a. For a channel, click Recording from the Channels menu. The Recording page opens.
b. For a recorder, select a recorder from the Recorders menu. The Recorder configuration page
opens.
3. Click change under Recorder Setup. The recorder settings open.
4. Change the default recording file settings.
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Time limit : Select a value from 5 minutes to unlimited.
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Size limit : Select a value from 50 MB to 4 GB.
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File type : AVI, MPEG-TS, MOV, MP4, or MP4-Fragmented.
5. (Optional) Enter a prefix for the recordings. All new recorded files for this channel or recorder will be
prefixed using the text you enter.
6. (Optional) Click the check box to exclude this channel or recorder from automatic file uploads, see FTP
and automatic file transfers .
7. Click Apply .
Restart recording
Recordings are automatically saved to a file and a new recording is started when:
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The recording reaches the configured time or size limit.
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The channel or recorder name is changed.
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Changes are made to the stream.
You can manually force a recording that's in progress to save to a file and continue recording in a new file from
that point forward without any loss of content.
This is useful if you need to download a recording since you cannot download recordings that are in progress.
To restart recording to a new file:
1. Login to the Admin panel as admin , see Connect to the Admin panel .
2. Do one of the following:
a. For a channel, click Recording from the Channels menu. The Recording page opens.
b. For a recorder, click the recorder from the Recorders menu. The Recording page opens.
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