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Manual Record Press《/∩》button/ Manual Power-Off/Auto Power-Off when
System Power Shortage.
Schedule Record Enter《/II 》schedule recording, all kinds of recordings (Alarm/
Motion Detection/ Continuous) will be stopped.
To continue recording, please follow the methods below to restart recording.
Manual Record Repress《》button.
Schedule Record Stop playback and the system will auto re-check the record
schedule setup again.
3. Record Display:
1Record Status:
:Indicates recording is in progress.
2Record Mode:
：Manual Record ：Schedule Record
：Motion Detection Record ：Alarm Record
3Record Storage Mode Status:
：Continuous Record
% ：Remaining Storage Capacity
4 System recording is determined according to the recording priority order (Record Priority:
Manual/ Alarm/ Motion Detection/ Continuous).
5. Different recording modes may have different kinds of setups. Basic setup: video size,
recording frames, video quality, and audio recording. When different recording modes are
triggered, the system starts recording according to the different setup. This kind of design
provides flexibility to ensure efficient recording time and quality. Example: Work hour
from 8:00am to 6:00pm, setup「Schedule Record」to low video quality with less recording
frames to extend the recording time. And off work hour, setup 「Motion Detection
Record/ Alarm Record」to enable high video quality with the highest recording frames,
when an event occurs.
6. Video or audio may be recorded into the SD card (SD card is purchased separately).
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Do not withdraw the SD card while recording. It may destroy the data stored within the SD card..
Power loss during recording results incomplete videos or errors.
Video loss during recording, the system stops recording, backups the files, and when
the videos are normal again, the system will continue recording.
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5.4 Playback Mode
Selectable Playback format: Continuous Playback and Searching Playback.
(1) Normal Playback: Press《/》button to first playback the final recorded data, and then
according to the SD card file recording order.
1Playback Status:
`：Press《/》button once to playback, press it again to pause.
：Press《》or《》button to Fast Rewind or Fast Forward (Speed:
x2/ x4/ x8/ x16/ x32). Press《/》button to return to normal speed
playback.
II ：During playback, press《/》button to pause playback and press
again to return to playback status.
：During pause, press《》or《》button to step back one frame or
to step forward one frame and press《/》button to return to
normal speed playback.
Press《/∩》button to stop playback function and to return to live status.
(2) Search and Playback: Enter MENU and select【SEARCH AND PLAY】item.
1 File directory shows dates and the amount of contents under the directory. The
user may press《》or《》button to move the cursor up or down.
2 Current location page.
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3 Event Record Status Icon:
：Manual ：Motion Detection ：Continuous ：Alarm
(NOTE 1 & NOTE 2).
4 Each color distinguishing different recording events, the user may press《》or
《》button to move the cursor left or right and immediately shows the first
image of the highlighted event on the screen display background.
5 Displays the time highlighted by the event bar.
NOTE 1：Select the starting point and press《Enter》button to playback.
NOTE 2：Press《/∩》button to stop playback and thesystem will return to【SEARCH and
PLAY】selection and enables the user to select the prefered input source.
The device supports playback only to images recorded by our device, other ASF video
files are not guaranteed.
5.5 PC Playback
1. The device uses SD card as its main storage. User may read the data stored in the SD
card from the computers that supports SD card reader device.
2. All files (under DVMPG4 folder) has approximate size of 1MB and file names are
ordered according to recorded times (sequence).
File Playback: User may use Microsoft®－Media Player or DivX－DivX Player
(http://www.divx.com/) to playback video files.
When first time using Media Player to playback, it requires the most updated decoder
from the Microsoft®software website.
5.6 SD Card Maintenance
1. The device supports only FAT16/ 32 file system; therefore it is unable to determine
other file systems. Please format the SD card (enter【MENU/ SD CARD OPTIONS】
and select “Format”).
2. The system supports only partial SD card file system repair. The system is unable to
detect any file system damage, therefore please format the SD card (enter【MENU/
SD CARD OPTIONS】and select “Format”).
5.7 How to Download the Updated Software
1. Use the SD card to update your system firmware.
2. Please follow the steps below to update the software:
(1) Copy the new system firmware into the new directory of the SD card from your
computer.
(2) Insert the SD card; switch off the main power and then restart.
(3) Wait for 5 to 6 seconds, the system update will be complete and return to live mode.
Do not withdraw the SD card while booting, when power-loss occurs while proceeding step
(3), please repeat step (2) and (3).
