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Page 1: ...llation and Users Guide 4 CHANNEL MOBILE DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER WITH REMOVABLE HARD DRIVE AND OPTIONAL SD CARD March 2008 Version 2 0 Fleet Management Inc 770 263 8118 sales AmericanBusVideo com AmericanBusVIdeo com ...

Page 2: ...O BE ACCURATE IN ALL RESPECTS HOWEVER WE CANNOT ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY CONSEQUENCES RESULTING FROM THE USE THEREOF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE REVISIONS OR NEW EDITIONS TO THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE ISSUED TO INCORPORATE SUCH CHANGES ...

Page 3: ...ightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of un insulated dangerous voltage within the product s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenan...

Page 4: ... PANEL OPERATION 6 BASIC ON SCREEN DISPLAY 8 SYSTEM STARTUP FEATURES 10 INSTALLING SYSTEM UPGRADES 10 Automatic Movie Playback 11 AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION SCRIPT 11 MDVR MENU STRUCTURE 13 REMOVABLE HARD DRIVE 29 FILE STRUCTURE 29 FTP COMMANDS 31 TELNET COMMANDS 32 Examples for PLAY command 33 TELNET PARAMETER SPECIFICATION 34 ETHERNET STREAMING PROTOCOL 37 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 39 MDVR CONNECTION 4...

Page 5: ...power refer to the operating instructions 8 GROUNDING OR POLARIZATION Equipment that is powered through a polarized plug a plug with one blade wider than the other will fit into the power outlet only one way This is a safety feature If you are unable to insert the plug fully into the outlet try reversing the plug Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized plug Alternate Warning If the equip...

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Page 7: ... exhibits a distinct change in performance 14 REPLACEMENT PARTS When replacement parts are required be sure the service technician uses replacement parts specified by the manufacturer or that have the same characteristics as the original part Unauthorized substitutions may result in fire electric shock or other hazards 15 SAFETY CHECK Upon completion of any service or repairs to the equipment ask ...

Page 8: ...ll be streaming while other users are transferring files or sending configuration commands Multiple trigger inputs are available that can be connected so the recorder can be used as an event recorder The triggered events are also logged along with the video and audio The unit features LED Power and Record indicators as well as two programmable Open Collector trigger output The unit has low power c...

Page 9: ...ulti event triggered inputs Dedicated ignition trigger with configurable record start stop delay Output trigger to control other devices or light an external LED to indicate device status e g when recording Ethernet port for wired or wireless capabilities and FTP interface Mobile power supply protection to allow direct connection of the unit to a vehicles 12V power supply without the use of any fi...

Page 10: ...Single SD Card This unit adds to the base Removable Hard Drive unit a single SD Card slot The SD Card is used to extract just the recordings of Events and for installing system upgrades Inserting an empty SD Card initiates copy captured data surrounding an event An extractable event is defined by the MARK trigger response A configurable pre event and post event time will determine what is extracte...

Page 11: ...5 with all other captured video remains on the hard drive normally even after SD event removal ...

Page 12: ... remain powered on until the Power Button is pressed again or 10 minutes of inactivity Holding the Power Button in for 10 seconds will perform a hardware reset of the entire MDVR unit Search Menu Button Accesses the recorded video search menu Pressing this button once brings up the search menu Holding this Search Menu Button for greater than 3 seconds brings up the main system configuration menu w...

Page 13: ... 1 4 and quad view Quad view only appears when the resolution on all 4 channels is the same Down Arrow Key mode dependant Playback Mode During standard 1x playback Down Arrow Key cycles backward through the channels Live Record Modes In Live Video Record mode the Down Arrow Key cycles among channel views 1 4 and quad view Quad view only appears when the resolution on all 4 channels is the same Pau...

Page 14: ...ynchronized by the GPS unit if the option is selected Trigger Inputs There are 7 user selectable trigger inputs with a 4 character symbol MDVR Status Displays the status of the MDVR includes idle record playback playback speed and pause MDVR Name This is the 14 character field to identify car officer and MDVR unit GPS Information This included Latitude Longitude and current vehicle speed Note vehi...

Page 15: ...9 Figure 1 On Screen Display OSD ...

Page 16: ...with a dvr extension Mount either the removable hard drive or optional SD card to a PC Find or create at the root of that media a SYSTEM folder Copy the dvr file into the SYSTEM folder Remove this media from the PC and install it into the MDVR and then power cycle the MDVR The MDVR will automatically install the dvr file Placing multiple dvr files in a SYSTEM folder will have unpredictable results...

Page 17: ...loading this file another file named new content ready is placed in the same directory This file is used only as an indicator to the MDVR that the uploaded file is ready to replace the existing file at the next media insertion or power up therefore it may be of zero length it is not read Use of the new content ready indicator file is useful when uploading large avi files to many MDVRs and there is...

Page 18: ...12 ID This information will appear in the metadata of the recorded video ...

Page 19: ...filesets on the Hard Drive The column on the left shows the days with the column on the right showing time in that day A pound symbol in the right column signals that the recording was triggered by an event Figure 3 Playback Menu Video playback can be accessed at any time and is available during recording without interrupting the current recording activity ...

Page 20: ...u use UP and DOWN ARROW buttons 3 To make menu selections use the RIGHT ARROW as Enter 4 To return to a previous screen use the SEARCH button as Back The Display shown in Figure 10 below is the main unit menu From this menu access to all other setup screens is possible Figure 4 Main Menu ...

Page 21: ...rable Open Collector output Notification of state of one of the MDVR attributes See details below Record GP Out 2 Mode Configurable Open Collector output Notification of state of one of the MDVR attributes See details below Power Time Setup Brings up the Time Setup menu Password Setup Brings up the Password Setup Menu Advanced Setup Brings up the Advanced Setup menu General purpose trigger outputs...

Page 22: ...Menu MDVR PASSWORD MENUS Figure Password setup A password can be used to control access to some or all configuration functions A display must be connected to the video output of the MDVR to display the password prompt When the user attempts to use a protected feature the display will prompt for the password The front panel keys are used to select each character and enter the password before access...

Page 23: ... Menu Figure 12 Field Action Default Date System date assuming GPS date is OFF Today s Date Time System time If GPS is enabled edits to this field will be overwritten by the system when it synchronizes with the GPS approximately once a minute Today s Time Timezone Offset from GPS reported time Set to zero if no GPS 0 Note 6 for Central US time Daylight Savings Automatic adjustment for daylight sav...

Page 24: ...tly deletes all recorded data except SYSTEM directory from the selected media Note Not normally needed unless correcting an error Format Media Permanently deletes all recorded data from the selected media and installs DVR filesystem Note Not normally needed unless correcting an error Use in response to No Disk error when disk is installed system can not read disk Faster than Erase Media Network Se...

Page 25: ...ss Note Requires power cycle to take effect Subnet Mask Manually entered subnet mask Note Requires power cycle to take effect FTP Username Manually entered username for FTP transactions USER FTP Password Manually entered password for FTP transactions PASS Save After configuration the save option must be selected ...

Page 26: ...20 Figure 9 Titles Setup Menu Title Setup Figure 15 Field Action Default System Name 14 character name ie Car Officer Other MDVR3xx Trigger x 4 character trigger name 1 7 ...

Page 27: ...the event o STOP RECORD Stops a recording if the unit is recording o RECORD Starts a recording and records while the trigger is active Stops recording when the trigger is not active o DISPLAY Will display the trigger event on the OSD and will record the trigger in the file meta data Figure 10 Trigger Setup Menu Trigger Setup Figure 16 Field Action Default Trigger 1 7 Enter a name for the trigger e...

Page 28: ...pecial handling inside the MDVR intended to support motor vehicle applications where recording can start and stop automatically Enabling the Record Control field in the Ignition Setup turns ON the automatic recording features The following table details how specific events are handled Record Control Setting Ignition State of Manual Power button System Behavior DISABLE ON Turning ON Turn ON DISABLE...

Page 29: ...but turn OFF automatically after idle for Power OFF Delay ENABLE Turning OFF ON Turn OFF after Record Stop Delay if recording else turn OFF immediately ENABLE OFF Turning OFF Turn OFF immediately under manual control ENABLE ON ON Stay on indefinitely no Power OFF Delay ENABLE Turning ON OFF Turn ON start recording after Record Start Delay Figure 11 Ignition Setup Menu ...

Page 30: ...ording it will continue recording for the Record Stop Delay and then turn off Note the Power Off Delay setting has no effect on ignition controlled power offs MDVR Power Button Control while Ignition Trigger OFF If the ignition trigger is low car off the power is controlled only by the Power Button When the button is pressed the unit will turn on until the button is pressed again or several minute...

Page 31: ...aud Transfer Rate 9600 4800 or 38400 9600 Parity Selects none even or odd parity None Data Bits Selects number of data bits 8 Stop Bits Selects number of stop bits 1 Protocol Protocol selection zoom cameras None Visca Sony Costar Costar One Touch Zoom Zoom control feature in percentage 100 PCT ...

Page 32: ...elects the image resolution D1 720 x 480 VGA 640 x 480 QD1 360 x 204 QVGA 320 x 240 320 x 240 Image Quality Image quality selection of HIGH MEDIUM HIGH MEDIUM MEDIUM LOW LOW CUSTOM Lower image quality provides longer record times due to higher compression rates MEDIUM Audio Recording Selects whether to record audio ON or no audio OFF ON Audio Volume Volume control setting 12dB CUSTOM set via telne...

Page 33: ...ated universal time UTC time Set your offset from GPS time in the Time Setup menu under System Setup GPS Setup Figure 20 Field Action Default Use GPS Selects whether to utilize the GPS positioning data YES Use GPS Time Selects whether to utilize the GPS time and date settings YES GPS Data Format Selects GPS display format DDD MM SS DDD MM mm DDD dddd DDD MM SS Calibrate Accel Resets current mounte...

Page 34: ...on Default Disk Size Storage capacity of the record media Percent Used Percentage of used space on the record media Percent Free Percentage of free space on the record media Firmware Version Version of the installed firmware MAC Address Ethernet MAC address of the unit Unique for each unit ...

Page 35: ...e any open files may be lost the DVR periodically closes the file record and opens a new one In addition to help navigate records for events the DVR closes the current file and opens a new one each time an event is triggered so triggered events can be found and viewed easily The file naming convention is as follows Mmm dd yyyy_hh mm ss seq avi Mmm dd yyyy same as directory name hh mm ss 24 hour ti...

Page 36: ...vi Record button manually pressed Mar 12 2008 17 36 48 002 avi Trigger event occurred Mar 12 2008 17 36 48 003 avi Another event occurred Mar 12 2008 17 36 48 004 avi No even occurred DVR created next file in sequence automatically ...

Page 37: ... limits FTP does not work within Internet Explorer It does work from the DOS command line FTP rmdir must be used with caution The DVR does not ensure that the directory is empty prior to deleting the directory Deleting a directory does not automatically delete the files in that directory The application or user of FTP must ensure that the directory is empty prior to removing a directory or else sp...

Page 38: ...where x c d e keylock on off Set query front panel keylock ls l Get short long directory listing media Query media or disk status mute on off Set query audio output mute pwd Print working directory play date Mmm dd yyyy Set query playback date play time hh mm ss Set query playback time play position sss Set query playback position in seconds play rate rateFactor Set query playback rate 90 rateFact...

Page 39: ...es then select one play time 100 14 12 32 100 15 47 05 200 OK play time 14 12 32 200 OK 3 Query current playback information for selected date time query returns the following parameters State Date Time Length Position State On or Off Date as shown in examples above Time as shown in examples above Length length of video clip in seconds Position current playback position in seconds play 200 Off Sep...

Page 40: ...tes that this camera is not to be recorded Value must be a multiple of 33 333 Maximum value is 299 997 000 299 9 secs or 5 minutes camera 1 bitRate Specifies recording bit rate in bits seconds Must be a multiple of 500 000 0 5 Mbit sec Minimum value is 500 000 0 5 Mbit sec Maximum value is 20 000 000 20 Mbits sec camera 1 resolution ASCII string which specifies image resolution or frame size D1 72...

Page 41: ...mum value is 512 MByte Maximum value is 1 GByte file maxTime Defines maximum amount of time to record in a single file Once this time is reached the DVR will continue recording in a new file maxSize and maxTime are used at the same time When either limit is reached a new file is created Minimum value is 60 seconds Maximum value is 600 seconds 10 minutes Must be a multiple of 60 seconds net ipAddr ...

Page 42: ...identify system uart 1 device Selects external device which is connected to serial port 1 Costar indicates Costar camera is attached None indicates serial port is unused uart 1 baudRate Specifies serial port baud rate 4800 9600 38400 uart 1 numDataBits Specifies number of data bits Must be 5 6 7 8 or 9 uart 1 numStopBits Specifies number of stop bits Must be 1 or 2 1 5 is not supported uart 1 pari...

Page 43: ... the data stream by sending zero length video frames so that the client can keep track of dropped frames to ensure audio video synchronization DATA STREAM FORMAT The data stream consists of audio video blocks Each block begins with an 8 byte header which contains an audio video stream identifier and a block length This header is the standard AVI data chunk header and is defined as follows chunkId ...

Page 44: ...e itself to the audio video stream and begin streaming of data as follows While buffering 200 ms of audio data send video frames The client should buffer these video frames Send 200 milliseconds of audio data to client The client can now begin playback or may wish to buffer another 200 ms chunk of audio video data ...

Page 45: ...ptions Utilizing standard brackets the MDVR can be installed as a bottom mount as shown in Figure 1 and as a DIN mount as shown in Figure 2 Care must be taken to not obstruct the ventilation holes in the bottom of the unit to ensure proper operation over the specified temperature range Figure 16 MDVR Bottom Mounting Diagram ...

Page 46: ...40 Figure 17 MDVR Front Mounting Diagram ...

Page 47: ...l connections feature Quad camera audio and video input Video Audio monitor output Standard TCP IP Ethernet connection featuring Built in File Transfer Protocol FTP server Main Molex Connector featuring Direct automotive power connection The MDVR features an internal reset capable fuse 7 trigger inputs and 1 ignition 2 configurable Open Collector trigger outputs ...

Page 48: ...29 12V Camera 3 Power 30 12V Camera 3 Power 31 12V Camera 4 Power 32 12V Camera 4 Power 33 Main Power 34 Main Power 35 Main Power 36 Main Power Trigger RS232 Connector J4 Molex 51353 2400 Connector Molex 5613409000 Pins Pin Function 1 3 9 15 21 22 Ground 2 Trigger 1 4 Trigger 2 6 Trigger 3 8 Trigger 4 10 Trigger 5 12 Trigger 6 14 Trigger 7 16 GP Open Collector 1 output 18 GP Open Collector 2 outpu...

Page 49: ...Player application Windows Media Player only plays first video audio channel Archive Media Type 2 5 EIDE Mobile Hard Drive support up to 120GB Typical Record Time 40 GB Hard Drive 46 hrs typ up to 66 hrs 80 GB Hard Drive 92 hrs typ up to 132 hrs 120 GB Hard Drive 130 hrs typ up to 200 hrs Power Supply Input Rating Standard automotive power range 8 24 Volts On Power Consumption w o Cameras 470 mA O...

Page 50: ...44 Unit Size 7 in 178 mm x 2 in 51 mm x 8 in 203 mm 1DIN Mountable ...

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