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4. Record Settings
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.
4.1 Before setting Record Settings
Before configuration, please make sure you have installed an HDD and it has
completed its initialisation, otherwise, access Menu > HDD Management to install the
HDD and perform initialisation first.
Note:
Please refer to
Initialising HDD
for specific instructions for initialising HDD.
4.2 Initialising Record Settings
1.
Click Menu > Settings > Record to access the Record Settings dialogue
box, shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. General Record Settings
2.
Select the camera you want to configure.
3.
Configure the following settings:
•
Encoding Parameters:
Set the encoding parameters to Normal or
Event.
•
Stream Type:
Set the stream type to be Video or Video & Audio.
•
Resolution:
Set recording at resolution of 4CIF, 2CIF, CIF or QCIF
selectable.
•
Bit Rate Type:
Set the bit rate type to be Variable or Constant.
•
Video Quality:
Set the video quality of recording, with 6 levels
configurable.
•
Frame Rate:
Set the frame rate of recording.
•
Max Bit Rate:
Select or customise the maximum bit rate for
recording.
4.
Click the
Set
button under More Settings to configure more recording
settings, as shown in Figure 2.
