Ag electronica Ptz-942l User manual

Network Dome Camera

PTZ-942L Network Instruction Manual

Honorific Users, please carefully read this

system user manual before using this video

server, as the functions of this machine are

professionally set.

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Packing List

1. Network Dome Camera 1 Set

2. DC12V、4A Power Adapter 1PC

3. User Instruction Manual 1PC

4. Attached Compact Disk 1PC

5. Acceptance Certificate and Warrant Card 1PC

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Contents

1Product Introduction .................................................................................. ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

1.1 Product Introduction .............................................................................. ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

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2Appearacne and Description...................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

3Equipment and Installation........................................................................ ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

3.1 Operating Conditions ............................................................................. ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

3.2 Equipment Instalaltion........................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

4IE Version Client Side...................................................................................................................................6

4.1 Set-Up Service ......................................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

4.2 Start to Login........................................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

4.3 Function Introduction............................................................................. ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

5RealWorld Client-Side Centralized Management Software....................................................................18

5.1 Brief Introduction ................................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

5.2 Software Installation............................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

5.3 Function Operation................................................................................. ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

5.3.1 Start-Up Network Monitoring Management Software.................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

5.3.2 Description of Main Interface............................................................ ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

5.3.3 Distribute Video Camera.................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

5.3.4 Video Camera Setup ........................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

5.3.5 System Setup........................................................................................ ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

5.3.6 Electronic Map.................................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

5.3.7 Video Playback.................................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

6Updating Software ...................................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

7Load Default Settings.................................................................................. ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

8Frequent Asked Questions.......................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

8.1 Fail to Access the Video Server through the Browser？...................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

8.2 Cradle Head or Dome Camera Can Not be Controlled?.....................................................................32

8.3 After Program Updating, Video Couldn’t be Played Normally..........................................................32

8.4 Fail to Browse Images Normally on Windows98.................................. ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

8.5 Only Sound but not Image When Video Files is Played on PC........... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

8.6 How to Use the Server to Carry on Video Transmission Service on Internet¡Error! Marcador no

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8.7 Why Do the Normal Data Fail to Pass Through the Exchanger......... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

8.8 Why Do Errors Occur When Accessing the Video Server through the Browser after Updating？

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8.9 The Video Effect is not Good?................................................................ ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

9Appendix...................................................................................................... ¡Error! Marcador no definido.

 AppendixA Problem Description on Video Server Port Occupation (Mapping)¡Error! Marcador no

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 Appendix BApplication Method Description on Dynamic Domain Name Service¡Error! Marcador no

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 Appendix C Description onAlarm Input and Output Connection Method¡Error! Marcador no definido.

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1Product Introduction

1.1 Product Introduction

Thanks for using our product and we’ll provide you with the best service.

The network video server is the equipment dedicated for real-time transmission of digital video and audio in

Ethernet. Adopting the programmable high-speed digital signal processor (DSP) specially designed for multi-media

processing, the network video server, which combines high-performance operation system and audio-video

compression algorithm, makes the image transmission more fluent and display more clear and smooth; in addition,

including the built-in WEB server, it can enhance the performance of traditional monitoring system, and provide the

network connectivity for issuing the monitoring images on a safe local area network or internet. The management,

configuration, monitoring and other functions of video camera can be operated easily through the Internet Explore.

1.2 Function Introduction

¾Standard MPEG-4 Video Compression Format

¾Standard MP3 Audio Compression Format

¾Support D1, HALF-D1 and CIF Formats

¾With the built-in Web Server, it fully supports IE monitoring, configuration and updating, so that it is

characterized by simple and convenient operation

¾The dynamic rate control assures the real-time transmission of audio on Internet

¾Bidirectional Voice Talkback

¾User management supports the three-level password

¾Alarm input and output can support mobile sensing, date, time, and event trigger.

¾Support local video (files can be directly played by Microsoft MediaPlayer and no other software

installation is required).

¾Support image mask

¾Support image capturing

1.3 Network PCB Technical Specification

Video Standard Support NTSC or PAL Format

Video Compression

Mode

MPEG-4 Four-Channel Independent Coding

Frame Rate 50 Frame/Second（PAL Fo rma t），60 Frame/Second（NTSC Format）

Adjustable Downwards

Audio Compression

Standard

ISO-MPEG Audio Layer-3

Video Coding Size D1: 704×576 Optimal and Compatible Half D1: 704×288 CIF: 352×288

Video Stream

Bandwidth Usage

Average

200 kbps (Resolution 52×288 and 25 Frames per channel)

Image Lag Less than 200 millisecond (LAN)

Image Adjustment Adjustment for Brightness, Contrast, Chroma, Saturation, and Image Quality

Level

Supported Resolution PAL: 704×576, 704×288 and 352×288

NTSC: 704×480, 704×240 and 352×240

Performance Output Frame Rate is 30fps at most and Network Bandwidth Usage is 32Kbps

at least

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Trigger Event and

Action

Trigger Conditions: Time/Alarm Input/Video Moving Detecting Video Lost

Action: Electrical Relay Output Control Peripheral Equipment

Recommended

Supported User

Quantity

10

IO and Control

Interface

485Transparent Channel

Embedded Type WEB

Service

Support IE Browsing, Configuration and Updating

Dynamic Domain Name Built-in Dynamic Domain Name Client Side and Second-Level Domain

Name Convenient for Dynamic IP Users

Video Input 1/2/4 Way 1.0V(P-P), 75ΩComposite, BNC, and PAL/NTSC(relating to

model)

Audio Input 1/2/4 Way BNC Interface, Microphone Input or Linear Input (relating to

model)

Audio Output 1.0V(P-P) BNC Interface and Linear Output

Hardware CPU: High-Performance DSP Processor

Operation System: Real-Time Embedded Type VxWorks Operation System

ROM: 4M Bytes Flash ROM

RAM: 64M Bytes SDRAM

Watch Dog: Apply to Program Execution of Voltage Normal of Monitoring

System

One S-485Port

One RJ-45 User Ethernet Interface

Two Led Display Network State

2/4 Alarm Input (Adopt Threshold Voltage 3.1-4.1) (relating to model)

1/4 Electrical Relay Alarm Output (1A 120VAC 1A 24VDC) (relating to

model)

Network Interface 10/100M

Installation None

System Requirements CPU: P or Higher

Internal Memory: 96M or Higher

Display: 17inch@1024×768 for Optimal Display Effect

Security 3-Layer Password Protection

Operating Temperature 5 ~ 60 

Operating Humidity 20 ~ 80%

Output Voltage DC12V /1A

Power Less than 5Watt

PCB Dimension 110mm(W) * 70mm(H)*2mm(D)(1/2 Channel)

157mm(W) * 115mm(H)*2mm(D)(4 Channel)

Installed Dimension 205mm(W)*122mm(H)*48mm(D)

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2Appearance and Description

¾Power Input: DC12V and 4A

¾Audio Output Interface: Line Level, Disequilibrium, Single Track and RCA Interface

¾Audio Input Interface 1: Microphone Input, Disequilibrium, Single Track and RCA Interface

¾Video Input Interface 1: 220x Sony CCD Camera

¾International protect level：IP66

3Equipment and Installation

3.1 Operating Conditions

Operation System: Windows2000server/professional/XP

Network Protocol: TCP/IP

Client PC: P4/128MRAM/40GHD/, and Scaling-Supported Graphic Card and DirectX8.0 Above

3.2 Equipment Installation

a. Connect the video server into your network or use the cross twine to connect the video server to the PC.

b. Connect the standard 75Ωcoaxial-cable to the BNC video input port of the video server.

c. Switch on Power (DC 12V)

d. Under the normal condition, the connection light (orange) of network will light on within 5 seconds, and

the physical connection of the video server is finished at this point.

4IE Version Client Side

4.1 Set-Up Service

1) IP address of each video server is defaulted as 169.254.178.251 and subnet mask is defaulted as

255.255.0.0. Please make the IP address of your computer into the same net section as the video server,

and be same with the subnet mask, such as 169.254.178.55.

Four- Channel Server Interface

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2) Test the video server is start up normally or not. Under the Windows System, operate against the <Start

→run →command> to open the command window to input

3) <ping 169.254.178.251>

4) When using the Internet Explore at the first time, you must lower the security setting casually so as to

install the ActiveX components to the network at one time, and then select the Tool ÆInternet Options Æ

Security ÆCustomize LevelÆActiveX Control and Plug-In>

5) Setup the security level as low and click the Apply button. Input 169.254.178.251 at the explore address

field. If pop up a dialogue box to ask if you want to install, please click Yes to start the installation.

6) Once ActiveX installation is finished, the security setting will load the default value.

4.2 Start to Login

1) Input 169.254.178.251 into the address filed and then login page will appear as follows.

2) Input the user name: 888888 (ex-factory default and administrator user) or 1 (common user)

3) Input the password: 888888 ex-factory default and administrator user) or 1 (common user)

4) Click 【Enter】button to enter into the preview picture of video server, as shown in following picture

(4-Way)

5) You can click [start] and [stop] to stop or reset the connection. During the connection process, the type

style of connecting will appear on the top left corner of the display area.

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4.3 Function Introduction

【Network Mode】: TCP and MultiCast can be selected according to your demand. Note: please select again

after the page is switched.

【Channel Select】: Click the image window to make the selected image window be the current operational

channel. The numbers of channels are respectively channel 1: top left; channel 2. top right;

channel 3: low left; and channel 4: low right in turn.

【Start-up】:After entering into preview interface, the 4-way channel image will automatically connect. You

can click button to open or close the image of some channel

independently.

【Preview Start】:Click to connect images of all channels at the same time.

【Preview End】: Click to stop images of all channels. The connection state of current channel can

be known through the state of buttons.

【Image Capture】: Click this button to save the current screen image and store it under the temp directory of

C disk.

【Audio】: Click the audio button to open the audio connected to the current channel, and the state of button

will change into green. When switching to other channel, the audio will be also switched to

this channel.

【Talkback】: Click the talkback button to startup the talkback and the state of button will change into green.

Click the button again to stop talkback.

【Video Recording】: Select the channel to be recorded and then click the button. Till the state of button

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change into green, the system will start video recording. Click the button again to stop video

recording. The video recorded is defaulted to be stored in the folder named as date in D disk. For

example, the video file recorded on 24th, March, 2005 is saved in 20050324 folder. If the space of

D disk is full, the system will automatically switch to next disk to save the video files. If no enough

space in disk, the earliest files will be deleted and the newest files will be saved.

【Playback】:Click this button to display the playback interface. Please select the date and time to click the

arrow, the system will automatically inquire about the existing video recording. Click the file to

play it directly by using the MediaPlayer.

【Output Control】: 4 output state control buttons can control 4 small signal

electrical relays on the video server, and show the state of electrical

relay through the colour state.

【Image Size】: The size of image display can be selected and the maximum size is

the full-screen display.

【Lens Control】: Click the buttons on 4 directions to control the moving direction of

cradle head; click and to control the focus of camera lens.

In addition, select the speed stretch bar to confirm the moving speed

of cradle head.

【Parameter Setting】: The system settings include time setup, network setup,

channel setup, and image setup which are shown as right pictures.

【Clock Adjustment】: The clock of network camera can be adjusted to display on the real-time image with

the connected computer.

【Audio Format】: The compression algorithm supports MP3 only at present. The code rate of audio can be

selected. If the code rate is low, the bandwidth usage will be decreased, but the sound effect

will be worse. Therefore, if bandwidth permit, the higher the code rate is, the better the sound

effect is.

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【Video Format】: You can select it as PAL or NTSC

【Network Address and Port】: IP Address, Subnet Mask, Gateway, Multicast Address, Multicast Port

Number, and ICMP Response are the network data of video server. If apply at the local

area network, please take notice that don’t set the IP address collide with the IP address

of computers located at the local area network. Modifying the web address can change

the browser access port provided by the WebServer of video server, and modifying the

data transmission port can change the audio port occupied by video server during the

network transmission (for details of port occupation, please refer to appendix A)

【MACAddress】: MAC address is the network hardware address of the equipment. Please don’t modify it at

will unless required.

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【Dynamic Domain Name】:

¾Start up URL forwarding: As the IP address is not convenient to be memorized, you can register the

domain name to get rid of annoyance of inputting the IP address.

¾Register Host Name: mean that you can register the domain name you like. This name must be

registered on the dynamic domain name server, otherwise it won’t be used normally.

¾DNS Server Address: Run the host address of the domain name service program.

¾DNS Server Port: The monitoring port of domain name service program.

¾Local Mapping Port: Refer to the pointing of WEB port when the video server carrying on the port

mapping in the internal network. This port shall keep in line with the defaulted 80 port in port mapping

program.

(For the operating instruction of the dynamic domain name server program, please refer to Appendix B)

【Display Control and Channel Protocol】:

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¾Character Superimposition: You can select the character content and display time to superpose on the

image. The position of display character and time on the image can be also adjusted and the position

coordinates on top left of image is (0, 0).

¾Cradle Head Protocol: The selected protocol, baud rate, and address must be accordant with the

protocol, baud rate and address of the selected cradle head or dome camera. Otherwise, the cradle head

or dome camera may be out of control.

¾Detection and Backup: You can set the duration of alarm signal produced by triggering the GPIO. This

setting is used to detect the video signal is lost or not. If lost, the alarm system will be triggered.

【Image Quality Control】:

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¾Code Rate Setup: Mean that the compression input code rate of the video server can be setup according

to the network bandwidth. The higher the code rate is, the better the image quality. However, the

occupied bandwidth will increase as well. Please adjust the setting according to your actual bandwidth

situation. It’s recommended that the quantized setup ranges from the maximum quantized value of 31 to

the minimum quantized value of 4.

¾Quality Setup: Mean that the code rate of the video server is not restricted. The quality of image is

determined by the quantizing coefficient. The smaller the quantizing coefficient is, the refiner the image

quality is. However, the minimum setting shall be 4.

¾Frame Rate Control: When the network condition is not ideal, adopt the method of decreasing the frame

per second to reach more smooth and fluent effect of moving images.

¾Maximize Quantizing Coefficient: When the network condition is not good, the system will

automatically adjust the quantizing coefficient of coding to decrease the data size of image coding.

When reaching the limit value, if the network environment still fails to reach the requirement, the coder

will decrease the frame rate to control the image continuity to reach the optimal visual effect. No matter

selecting the quality coding or rate coding, above parameters are relevant to each other. For example,

when acting as the coding for quality setup, the values of code rate parameter in the code rate setup will

become the maximum coding rate used by quality setup coding.

【Colour Adjustment】: The brightness, contrast, saturation and chroma of the channel can be adjusted as

required.

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【Moving Detection】:It can detect whether the mobile objects exist in current images. If alarm output is set,

the mobile object will trigger the alarm.

¾Sensitivity Adjustment: the setting of adjusting the detecting sensitivity. Under the high-sensitivity

setting, the object moving at slow speed will also trigger the alarm.

¾Test Switch: Open this switch to test that the sensitivity you set is appropriate or not. If it triggers, grey

block will flash in the triggered area.

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¾Select All: Set the whole image as the detecting area.

¾Delete All: Delete the set area.

¾Confirm: Save the current setting.

【Image Mask】:

【Moving Detection Planning】:

¾The video server supports the selection for many kinds of alarm methods and implementation time, and

the arrangement of all kinds of plan tasks is set at the “detection planning”. The detection planning can

be designed as the project of various complex monitoring starting and closing.

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¾No matter the moving detection or the external alarm detection, there is a plan task list. In accordance

with the setting in this list, the video server will start or stop alarm. The plan task consists of 7 groups of

settings totally, and each group includes the date, starting time and ending time. The first row on the left

is optional for date。During this row, each group contains Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday to Friday, Saturday to Sunday, Everyday, and Close, totally 11 kinds

of selections. The two rows behind the data selection refer to the setting of starting time and ending

time.

¾During the moving alarm, the parameters for setting the alarm area and adjusting the alarm sensitivity

are very important. Inappropriate parameters easily cause the false alarm or failure to alarm in case of

alarm situation. The external alarm is dependent on the alarm signal triggered by the external inductor,

such as infrared alarm unit.

¾When the moving detection is started, the server will detect the moving objects within the alarm area

during the arranged planning date and time, and link the video recording or alarm output according to

the setting below.

【Probe Alarm】: When starting the probe detection, the video server will receive the message from the

external inductor, and link the vide recording or alarm output according to the set triggering

below.

¾Arrange Plan: totally 7 groups of time arrange the plans in different time intervals.

¾Link Video Recording: Make video recording when alarm triggering exist.

¾Start Alarm Output: When alarm exists, the external alarm output will be started to trigger the

externally-connected alarm unit.

(For the detailed alarm input and output connection, please refer to Appendix C)

【System Updating】: Select the itm file to be updated and update the program within the equipment for

yourself.

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【Setting Save and Restore】:Save the current settings or load the default setting.

【User Information】: Support the password supervisor privilege and only administrator can modify the

parameters.

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5RealWorld Client-Side Centralized Management Software

5.1 Brief Introduction

The network monitoring management software adopts the distributed type system framework and C/S system

structure, based on TCP/IP network platform. Currently, this monitoring management software can manage 80-way

channels and support the electronic map. In addition to concise interface and convenient operation, it also owns

preview, inquiry, video recording, alarm playback and many other functions.

5.2 Software Installation

Operating Conditions

Operation System: Windows2000server/professinal/XP

Network Protocol: TCP/IP

Client-Side PC: P4/128MRAM/40GHD/ Scaling-Supported Graphic Card and DirectX8.0 Above

Installation Guide

Open the folder of management software to run (double click the left key of mouse) the installation program

file of RealWorld nDVR.exe, and the dialogue box will appear as follows:

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And then carry on the installation according to the prompt of installation tool till the steps shown in following

picture appear, and select the [Finish] button to install the program successfully.

5.3 Function Operation

5.3.1 Start Network Monitoring Management Software

Select the program group for installation in the [Start] menu, shown as following picture.

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