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Page 2: ...ek com Product name Video Server VS3100P Release Date 2005 04 07 Manual Revision 1 30 Web site www vivotek com Email technical vivotek com sales vivotek com Made in Taiwan Copyright 2000 2005 All righ...

Page 3: ...his also ensures the product is used properly as intended The Video Server is a network device and its use should be straightforward for those who have basic network knowledge The Troubleshooting chap...

Page 4: ...8 Restore button 9 Power adapter 9 Installation 10 Hardware installation 10 Cable connection 10 Power on 10 Software installation 11 Initial Access to the Video Server 12 Check Network Settings 12 Ad...

Page 5: ...rk settings 40 General 40 SMTP 40 FTP 41 HTTP 41 Streaming 42 DDNS and UPnP settings 43 Video codec parameters 44 Motion detection 46 Application settings 47 Weekly schedule 47 Event operation 47 Sequ...

Page 6: ...URL 57 System resource URL 57 General format of command URL 58 System configuration URL 58 Security configuration URL 59 Network configuration URL 59 DDNS UPnP configuration URL 61 Video configuration...

Page 7: ...6 www vivotek com Package Contents VS3100P Power adapter I O terminal block connector Software CD Quick installation guide Warranty card...

Page 8: ...ption Front Panel BNC video input 75Ohms resistance video port for connecting an external camera To ensure video modulation type being correctly detected cameras should be attached and powered on befo...

Page 9: ...r to the appendix Troubleshooting for detail Rear Panel Ethernet 10 100 socket Connect to Ethernet network with a UTP category 5 cable that cannot exceed 100 meters General I O terminal block 1 DI INP...

Page 10: ...o turn on or off the external device Restore button There is a button hidden in the box for restoring the system factory default settings Please refer to the appendix Troubleshooting for detail Power...

Page 11: ...orrectly and firmly connected before turning on the Video Server Turn on cameras sensors alarm devices and then attach the power adaptor of the Video Server to the electric power socket As soon as the...

Page 12: ...o Servers in the local network Users can differentiate the Video Servers with the serial number The serial number is printed on the labels on the carton and the back of the Video Server body Please re...

Page 13: ...roubleshooting chapter of the Appendix Add Password to prevent Unauthorized Access The default Administrator s password is blank and the Video Server initially will not ask for any password The Admini...

Page 14: ...to request a username and password Upon successful authentication the following figure is displayed The foreground is the login window and the background shows the message if authentication fails The...

Page 15: ...of the user s PC or notebook If the highest security level is set the computer may prohibit any installation and execution attempt This plug in has been registered for certificate and is used to displ...

Page 16: ...th Camera View The main page layout has two parts Configuration functions The camera can be configured using these user interfaces Camera View What the camera sees Click on the configuration link to t...

Page 17: ...check Disable digital zoom and use the slider control to change the zoom factors Digital Output Clicking on the On or Off button turns the digital output to either on or off status Snapshot Click on w...

Page 18: ...or contact your IT or networking supervisor There are two settings for the client side One is Media Option for users to determine if audio should be muted The other is Protocol Option which allows cho...

Page 19: ...l be in the order of UDP TCP HTTP After the Video Server is connected successfully Protocol Option will indicate the selected protocol The selected protocol will be recorded in the user s PC and will...

Page 20: ...n page are correlative to allow for achieving the best performance possible For Best Real time Video Images To achieve good real time visual effect the network bandwidth should be large enough to allo...

Page 21: ...ber of users viewing on the network even when the parameters have initially been finely tuned Performance will also suffer due to poor connectivity because of the network s burst constraint Only Quali...

Page 22: ...Type a new word twice in 1 to enable protection This password is used to identify the administrator Then add an account with user name and password for your friends in 2 Video Server can provide twent...

Page 23: ...ssword The Administrator can also decide if more viewers are allowed to watch the video if the viewers exceed the limit The overloaded viewers will have snapshot mode instead Change homepage layout Ho...

Page 24: ...on The font color is better to contrast with the background How to change the background 1 Click on Configuration on homepage 2 Click on Homepage layout at the left column If you want to display simpl...

Page 25: ...you want to change the default background image stored in the Video Server 3 Find Background graph and choose default 4 Click on Save button 5 Prepare an image file with size less than 131000 bytes an...

Page 26: ...go 3 Find Logo graph and choose Url 4 Type the URL of the image on the Internet in the edit box for example http dgl microsoft com thumbnails j023 j0234430 t gif 5 Click on Save button If you want to...

Page 27: ...der to the Video Server 8 Close the FTP program and reload the homepage of the Video Server If you want to add hyperlink to the logo image 3 Find Logo link and type the hyperlink in the edit box for e...

Page 28: ...xactly the same including the letter case Example homepage begin html head title Example custom homepage title head body background pic wallppr jpg p a href setup config html img src http dgl microsof...

Page 29: ...on homepage 7 Click on Homepage layout at the left column 8 Check Use the customized homepage 9 Click on Save button and return to homepage The user htm only provides plain text content that scripts...

Page 30: ...nts no need to find suitable software Product demo for e business large scale service If the number of visitors has exceeded the limit the Video Server can allow the overload viewers to see the snapsh...

Page 31: ...t the Video Server as an FTP client to upload the pictures The access to the Video Server will be independent of the number of viewers and the picture quality will remain constant 1 Click on Configura...

Page 32: ...file uploaded via FTP in advance If the web space has no FTP service An auto refresh homepage can be used to periodically poll the newest image from the Video Server It is most efficient if using a f...

Page 33: ...eshrate if necessary script language javascript var image http 192 168 0 203 cgi bin video jpg IMAGE URL var refreshrate 5 SECONDS BETWEEN REFRESH var imgwidth 352 IMAGE WIDTH var imgheight 240 IMAGE...

Page 34: ...ther attached devices To upload the snapshots users can choose either email or FTP according to user s needs Both e mail and FTP use the network settings on the network page Refer to the definition se...

Page 35: ...8 Check Enable motion detection 9 Click on new to have a new window to monitor video 10 Type in a name to identify the new window 11 Use the mouse to click hold and drag the window corner to resize or...

Page 36: ...35 www vivotek com 16 Check Upload snapshots while motion detected if e mailing the snapshots is preferred 17 Check Send snapshots by email 18 Click on save to validate...

Page 37: ...ow 1 Download the firmware file named FLASH BIN from the appropriate product folder 2 Run the Installation Wizard and proceed following the prompts Refer to the instructions of the Installation Wizard...

Page 38: ...old texts are the specific phrases on the Option pages The Administrator may type the URL below the figure to directly enter the frame page of configuration If the Administrator also wants to set cert...

Page 39: ...th the local computer The read only date and time of the PC is displayed as updated Manual Adjust the date and time according to what is entered by the Administrator Notice the format in the related f...

Page 40: ...O control Delete user Pull down the user list to find the user s name and press to complete Allow demo account to view Click this to permit anyone who types in demo as user name No password is needed...

Page 41: ...fferent subnet Invalid router setting will fail the transmission to destinations in different subnet Primary DNS The primary domain name server that translates hostnames into IP addresses Secondary DN...

Page 42: ...ng must conform to that of the external FTP server Some FTP servers cannot accept preceding slash symbol before the path without virtual path mapping Refer to the instructions for the external FTP ser...

Page 43: ...the port opened by the firewall Video channel port This can be something other than the default port 5003 in order to work with the port opened by the firewall Improve audio quality in low bandwidth...

Page 44: ...deo Server 192 168 0 96 That is The hostname of the Video Server is Video Server and the IP address of the Video Server is 192 168 0 96 Enable UPnP port forwarding If the network router supports port...

Page 45: ...tment Maximum frame rate This limits the maximal refresh frame rate which can be combined with the Video quality control to optimize bandwidth utilization and video quality If the user wants to fix th...

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Page 47: ...n bar means the image variation is under monitoring level and a red bar means the image variation is over monitoring level When the bar goes red the detected window will also be outlined in red Going...

Page 48: ...the digital input and the three windows for motion detection More than one condition can be selected at once Select the appropriate digital input condition that suits the characteristics of the extern...

Page 49: ...d following the intervals set above The snapshot named video jpg will be attached in the email with the subject title Periodic snapshots Send snapshots by FTP The snapshots will be uploaded to the ext...

Page 50: ...inistrator s capability for how to change the default logo Logo link when users click on the logo image a new window will pop up to show the homepage of the given URL Clear the URL will disable the li...

Page 51: ...on the configuration page to view the entire system s parameter set The content is the same as those in CONFIG INI Factory default Click on this link on the configuration page to restore the factory...

Page 52: ...network is setup Blink green every second Any hardware failure Other patterns Reset and restore There is a button hidden in the pinhole beside the Ethernet socket It is used to reset the system or re...

Page 53: ...ng Internet Explorer adjust the security level of Internet Explorer to allow installation of plug ins 3 If the problem still exists after adjusting and the message over the image window is showing con...

Page 54: ...temporarily During the period users should be aware of the risk of malicious network activity Q I have opened motion detection windows but it cannot work A If the motion detection windows are setup a...

Page 55: ...nt Q How can I keep the Video Server as private as possible A The Video Server is designed for surveillance purposes and has many flexible interfaces The user authentication and special confirmation i...

Page 56: ...the most up to date snapshot in JPEG format Query status of the digital input cgi bin getdi cgi The Video Server will return the status of digital input Drive the digital output cgi bin setdo cgi do s...

Page 57: ...56 www vivotek com The Video Server will automatically restart after restoring factory default configurations Restart system setup reset cgi Restart the Video Server without warning...

Page 58: ...etup system html security option setup security html network option setup network html video option setup video html motion detection setup motion html image quality option setup image html applicatio...

Page 59: ...p system cgi NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION host text string shorter than 15 characters system name yes turn off front LED Ledoff no turn on front LED keep keep date and time unchanged auto use NTP server to...

Page 60: ...blank validate demo users with open yes grant for demo account open no prohibit for demo account yes permission for DIDO access dido no prohibit for DIDO access Network configuration URL URL setup ne...

Page 61: ...text string shorter than 80 characters return email address ftpp number less than 65535 FTP port ftp1 domain name or IP address primary FTP server ftpuser1 text string shorter than 15 characters user...

Page 62: ...DNS UPnP configuration URL URL setup ddns html NAME VALUE DESCRIPTION enddns anything Enable DDNS function This option must be resent whenever the URL is called if DDNS function is to be enabled 1 Dyn...

Page 63: ...haracters enclosed caption B W monochrome color other than B W color 1 half 2 half x 2 3 normal 4 normal x 2 size 5 double Auto auto detect the camera type NTSC set the camera type to NTSC mode PAL se...

Page 64: ...s 15 set maximum frame rate to 15 fps 20 set maximum frame rate to 20 fps 25 set maximum frame rate to 25 fps frame 30 set maximum frame rate to 30 fps yes flip image flip no normal image yes mirror i...

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Page 66: ...trigger condition dirise not required set DI rising as trigger condition difall not required set DI falling as trigger condition motion1 not required set motion window1 as trigger condition motion2 no...

Page 67: ...text string shorter than 80 characters URL of image for logo linkurl text string shorter than 80 characters URL to link when clicking on logo blank hide background image def use default background cus...

Page 68: ...TSC Up to 30 frames at 176x120 Up to 30 frames at 352x240 Up to 10 frames at 702x480 PAL Up to 25 frames at 176x144 Up to 25 frames at 352x288 Up to 10 frames at 702x576 Audio Algorithm supported 24Kb...

Page 69: ...ision reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the...

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