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4. Record
Settings
4.1 Configuring Settings for Recording
There are multiple ways to setup your DVR for recording. They include setting up a
recording schedule, triggering a recording by motion detection and/or a sensor alarm, and
manually starting the recording.
4.2 Initialising Record Settings
Before setting your DVR up for recording, certain settings should be configured first. The
steps to configuring these settings are:
1.
If you have not initialised a HDD either through the Setup Wizard or through HDD
management, you must do so before proceeding.
2.
Navigate to Menu > Setting > Record. You will be taken to the Record Settings menu,
shown below.
3.
Select the camera you would to configure the settings for.
4.
Configure settings for:
• Encoding Parameters:
Select the encoding parameters, either Normal or Event.
• Stream Type:
Type of stream to record, either video or video & audio.
• Resolution:
Select the resolution of the recording. The options include 4CIF, 2CIF, CIF
and QCIF.
• Bit Rate Type:
Select either Variable or Constant bit rate.
• Video Quality:
Select the quality to record cameras at.
• Frame Rate:
Select recording frame rate.
• Max Bit Rate:
Select or define custom maximum bit rate for recordings.
5.
Click the Set button under
More Settings
. This will bring up another menu with more
advance recording options. See below.
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