User Manual
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Configuring 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.
Note:
DVR
provide no alarm, motion | alarm and motion & alarm recording types.
Before Record Settings
Before configuration, please make sure your DVR has been installed with HDD and has completed its
initialization, otherwise, access Menu > HDD Management to install the HDD and perform initialization
first.
Note:
Please refer to
Initializing HDD
for specific instructions for initializing HDD.
Initializing Record Settings
1.
Click Menu > Settings > Record to access the Record Settings dialog 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 be 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 customize the maximum bit rate for recording.