Kraun Video Server User manual

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User’s Manual
Video Server

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ................................................................................................................3
2. Hardware description and quick installation/usage ...............................................4
2.1. Major hardware components. ................................................................................................. 4
2.2. Quick installation and usage ...................................................................................................5
3. Web congurations ....................................................................................................9
3.1. Information ..................................................................................................................................10
3.2. Video Display ...............................................................................................................................11
3.3. Network .........................................................................................................................................13
3.4. Advanced Network ...................................................................................................................14
3.5. Video Settings .............................................................................................................................15
3.6. 3GPP/RTSP settings ...................................................................................................................16
3.7. RS485 settings .............................................................................................................................17
3.8. Email/ftp Alarm ..........................................................................................................................18
3.9. DI/DO settings ............................................................................................................................20
3.10. NAS settings ................................................................................................................................21
3.11. SD-Card settings ........................................................................................................................23
3.12. Scheduling ...................................................................................................................................25
3.13. Led Display Control ...................................................................................................................26
3.14. Date/Time .....................................................................................................................................27
3.15. Admin.............................................................................................................................................28
3.16. Upgrade ........................................................................................................................................29
3.17. Reboot ...........................................................................................................................................30
3.18. Safe Mode .....................................................................................................................................31
3.19. Set to factory default ................................................................................................................32
4. Features and specications .....................................................................................33
4.1. Features .........................................................................................................................................33
4.2. Specications ..............................................................................................................................34
5. FAQ. ...........................................................................................................................36

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1. Introduction
The video server is designed with the “user-friendly” idea deep in mind. It translates the analog video to
digital video, compresses the video by MPEG4 technology and sends the video to internet. The video server
can be easily integrated with a CCTV camera to become an IP based system. Excellent and free rmware
and software are provided for this video server.
The user can install the video server product easily on his/her network connecting with a CCTV camera
and then access the video anywhere in the world through the accompanied video management software-
KraunView. You get this video easily without setting some complicated DNS name or changing the router’s
settings. It’s just a plug & play action and trouble-free installation.
With 3GPP/ISMA support, users can see the video of the video server on any 3G mobile phone anywhere,
anytime. The big dierence is that there is software for downloading to the mobile phone so that the
xed IP address is not needed for the Video server. The video settings including frame rate, resolution and
bandwidth could be dierent for PC monitoring and mobile viewing. Major 3G mobile brands including
Nokia, Motorola, Sony-Ericsson, LG, Samsung and HTC have been tested.
For indoor/outdoor surveillance and remote monitoring, the video server product provides the best image
quality in its class, and excellent performance. The video server product also provides the best bandwidth
eciency, it oers full D1(720x480 for NTSC, 720x576 for PAL) resolution, 30 fps frame rate, real MPEG4
image compression ability. The audio line-in interface enables remote users to not only see, but also listen
for additional monitoring requirements.
The micro-SD card interface provides local video storage function. The NAS storage function can easily
turn any NAS device to a NVR device. The event scheduling provides full scheduling of email/ftp sending,
D/I detection, NAS recording event. With the built-in Web server, the video server product can also be
managed from a standard web browser on a Windows computer. With the ActiveX support, users can also
see the video display on the Windows IE browser.
The video server product provides motion detection function. Users can easily setup this function and
receive the notication with the snapshot images through email and/or ftp when some motion events are
detected. Users can also record the motion-detected video through the KraunView software.
The video server product is ideal for securing buildings, oces, factories, and residences over a local area
network and/or the Internet.
The dierences
It’s very easy to see the video of the video server product, you only need to key in the ID/Password of the
video server any where in the world, you do not need to remember the IP address or domain name or
DDNS name or port number. And you do not need to modify the settings(like port mapping, xed IP, DDNS,
virtual server) of the NAT/router devices, it’s just a plug & play usage.
So, the dierences are the followings:
• Public IP address needed ? No
• Dynamic DNS needed ? No
• Port mapping in router? No
• Virtual server in router ? No
• UPnP support in router ? No
• What’s needed ? ID and Password

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2. Hardware description and quick installation/usage
The Video server is designed to be very easy to install and use. First, let’s see the major components of the
Video server products.
2.1. Major hardware components.
The major components on the front panel of the video server products are the video in, video out, line in
and reset button :
1. Video in – for connecting to the CCTV camera.
2. Video out – for connecting to CCTV monitor or DVR recorder.
3. Line in – for receiving the audio signal. The signal is a biased signal.
4. Reset button – this is the button to reset the Video server to default factory settings. You need to use
a small stick like pencil or tooth stick to press the reset button for more than 4 seconds to enable the
reset function. Usually when you forgot the administrator account, you will probably need to do this
reset action to reset to the default factory settings. Please refer to section 3.18 for more details.
Figure 2-1: Major components in the front panel
The major components on the back panel of the Video server products are the followings:
1. Power jack – this is the place to plug in the power adaptor. The power needed for this Video server is
12V/0.5A, please make sure you are using the correct power adaptor.
2. Digital input – for alarm detection, could be congured as normal open or normal closed circuit for
alarm detection.
3. Digital output – for setting alarm signal, could be congured as normal open or normal closed circuit
for alarm triggering.
4. RS485 – for pan/tilt control, Pelco-P and Pelco-D protocols supported.
5. The pin sequences are DI(+),DI(-),DO(+),DO(-),RS485(+),RS485(-).

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6. Ethernet jack – this is the place to plug in the RJ45 Ethernet cable. When the Ethernet link is ok, the
Ethernet indication LED on the front side will be blue light.
7. Status indication LED (red) – this LED is to indicate the Internet connection status. When the Internet
connection is connected, the LED will be constant red light. If there is any Internet connection
problem, the LED will be blinking red light.
8. Ethernet indication LED (blue) – this LED is to indicate if the Ethernet link is ok and packet trac is
sending/receiving. When the Ethernet cable is connected, the LED is constant blue light. When there
is packet sending/receiving, the LED is blinking blue light.
9. Micro-SD card slot – for inserting the micro SD-Card. .
Figure 2-2: Major components in the back panel
2.2. Quick installation and usage
There are only four steps that you need to do to see the video from the video server product.
1. Connect a CCTV camera to the video server product.
2. Connect the video server product to the home/oce network.
3. Install the KraunView software on the notebook/PC.
4. Key in the ID/password of the video server product (from the ID/Password card) on the KraunView,
and then you can see the video.
First, Connect a CCTV camera to the video server product
Please connect a CCTV camera to the “video in” connector in the video server product as shown in Fig.2-2.

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Second, Connect the video server product to the home/oce network
Please connect the video server product to the home network or oce network through an Ethernet cable.
Usually, this Ethernet cable is plugged into a home NAT/router device or an Ethernet switch if in the oce,
as shown in Figure 2-2. Since the default settings of the video server product use DHCP function and very
often there is a DHCP server on most of the Home/oce network, the video server product should be
connected to the Internet immediately. The Internet status LED is constant red light to indicate this good
connection status. If the LED is blinking, please refer to section 3.3~3.4 to try other network settings.
Figure 2-2: Connect architecture of the video server product.
Third, Install the KraunView software on the notebook/PC
Please insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive in your notebook or personal computer (must be
running Microsoft Windows OS). Execute the program KraunViewInstaller-xxx.exe on the disk. The program
will pop-up some windows about the installation options, please press the “next” button to proceed with
the installation. After the installation is complete, there will be a KraunView icon on the desktop of your
computer screen, please execute this icon. The KraunView program will run immediately.
Figure 2-3: The installation CD disk

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Last, Use KraunView program to see the video
Figure 2-5 is the running window of the KraunView program. If the computer and video server product
is connected to the same network, the video server product ID will be displayed in the “Auto Search” list.
You can double click the “Auto Search” to search all the connected video server products any time. The
only thing left right now for seeing the video is to double click the video server product ID item in the
“Auto Search” list. For example, if the video server product ID is 001-001-029, you can then double click the
001001029 item in the “Auto Search” list to view the video. A window asking for password input will pop
up. Please key-in the password in your ID/Password card into this eld and click “ok”. The video will then be
displayed on the window.
Figure 2-4: The ID/Password card
Notice :
1. You can modify this play-video password by entering into the web conguration pages. Please refer
to section 3.5 for more information.
2. You can also add the video server product into the CameraList in the KraunView software to have
more convenient video display, please refer to the user manual of the KraunView software for more
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Seeing the video in a remote location
After the video server product is installed and you can see the video from the KraunView software in the
local network, it’s very easy to see the video in a remote location. All you need to do is add a camera item
in the “CameraList” folder of the KraunView software, key in the video server product ID and Password(from
the ID/Password card). And then double click this camera item. You will then see the Camera video
immediately. No further NAT/router setting modications are needed.
Figure 2-5: Running window of KraunView program
Figure 2-6: Pop-up play-video password window

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3. Web congurations
You can login into the web conguration page by directly key-in the IP address of the video server product
or right-click the searched video server product in the “Auto Search” list of the KraunView software and click
the “Web Congure” to open the login window of the video server product.
Figure 3-1: Open the web conguration page from KraunView software
The default login account is “admin”, leave the Password eld empty.
Figure 3-2: Video server product Web conguration login page

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3.1. Information
The rst page of the web conguration of the video server product is the information page. You can see the
model name/rmware version, video server product ID, registration status, network type and current video
settings( bandwidth, resolution) in this page.
The video server product can be viewed remotely by the KraunView software only when the video server
product is registered. If this video server product is not registered, please check the Ethernet wiring of your
network environment. The “Network type” eld displays the network connection and method(DHCP, PPPoE
or static ip) the video server product is running. The “Video users” eld displays the number of connected
video viewing users.
Figure 3-3: Video server product Information page

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3.2. Video Display
This display page allows you to view the video display of the video server product. For the rst time use
of this display on a computer, an activeX component will be automatically downloaded into the browser.
This could take some time, depends on the internet speed. The component is downloaded from a public
domain, so that the computer must be connected to the Internet.
If you want to modify the video display screen size, please refer to section 3.5 for more details.
Figure 3-4: Video display page
When the RS485 function is enabled, the display page will show the PTZ control functions, as shown in
Figure 3-5. Besides the pan/tilt/zoom/focus buttons, there are some more control functions :
1. Control by KraunView – enable/disable the PTZ control function of the video server by KraunView
software.
2. Moving speed – the is to control the pan/tilt speed. Larger number means higher speed.
3. Go to preset – move to the pre-dened preset position.
4. Add preset – move the speed dome to the desired position, including pan/tilt position and zoom size,
giving this position a name, and then press the “add” button to add this position as a preset point.
There are totally 48 preset points allowed.
5. Delete preset – delete one of the pre-dened preset points.
6. Patrol settings – press the “patrol” button to edit the patrol tours. There are totally four patrol tours
provided, each patrol tour can contain up to 48 preset points. The stay time of each patrol points
could also be edited. As shown in Figure 3.6.
7. Start patrol – press the play button to start the patrol.
8. Stop patrol – press the stop button to stop the patrol.

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Figure 3-5: Video display page when the RS485 function is enabled.
Figure 3-6: Patrol settings page.

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3.3. Network
The Network page allows you to modify the network settings of the wired Ethernet. The default settings
use DHCP to obtain an IP address automatically. In most of the home and oce network environment,
there is a DHCP server running. In this situation, by using this default settings, the video server product can
work immediately in most of the time.
If the Ethernet cable is unplugged, the video server product will lose connection. But as soon as the Ethernet
cable is plugged in again, the video server product will obtain a new IP address immediately.
Figure 3-7 Network settings page for DHCP function
If the network environment does not support DHCP function, you will need to set the network settings of
the video server product manually. Please ll all the elds including “IP address”, “Subnet mask”, “Default
gateway” and “DNS server” to let the network work. All these settings must be correct for your network
environment, otherwise the video server product can not work.
The default setting is “Obtain an IP address automatically”.
Figure 3-8: Network settings page for xed IP address

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3.4. Advanced Network
In some special situation, your network environment only provides PPPoE connection(ADSL service), there
is no NAT/router available. You will then need to set the PPPoE settings in the “Advanced Network” page. Only
the PPPoE username and password are needed to let PPPoE work. After the “Save&Apply” button is pressed,
the PPPoE function will work immediately. You can check the “Registration status” in the “Information” page
to see if the video server product is registered using the PPPoE connection.
Please be noticed that the DHCP or static IP settings in the “Network” page can work together with the
PPPoE connection. Only that the PPPoE has higher priority, so, if the PPPoE is working, the video server
product will use PPPoE to connect to the Internet.
The default setting is “Disable PPPoE”.
Figure 3-9: Advanced network settings page

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3.5. Video Settings
The video server product is designed to provide high quality video for viewing from KraunView software.
In this page, you cam modify some settings related to the video viewing:
1. Password(play video) – this is the password needed for viewing the video from the KraunView
software. Together with the video server product ID, you can view the video of this video server
product anywhere in the world through the Internet.
2. Internet speed – this is the Internet bandwidth of your network environment. Higher value will
generate higher video quality. But if your internet connection can not provide more bandwidth than
the specied value, the video quality could degrade. So, please key in a value that is lower than your
internet bandwidth.
3. Select resolution & frame rate automatically – you can let the system select the suitable video
resolution and frame rate automatically for you. The selection is based on the “Internet speed” value.
This is the recommended default setting.
4. Resolution – there are three choices : 160x120, 320x240 and 640x480. If you decide to choose the
value manually, you can choose one of the three values. But, please be noticed that if the Internet
speed is slow(low value), high resolution(640x480) or frame rate could cause very bad video quality.
5. Frame rate – the video frame display rate. Higher value means faster movement and continuity in the
video display.
6. Favor/Preference – choose between “Video motion” and “Image quality”. When the real bandwidth
is not enough for the selected “Internet speed”, the system will need to degrade the video motion
or image quality. This selection will decide if the user want to maintain the “video motion” or “image
quality” when the internet speed is not good enough.
7. Brightness – the brightness of the video, lower value means darker display.
8. NTSC(60 Hz)/PAL(50 Hz) – depends on the dierent video signal input, users can choose the NTSC or
PAL video system. The resolution will be changed according to the selected video system.
9. Enable/disable audio microphone – you can enable or disable the audio microphone on the video
server product. If disable, there will be no voice on the KraunView video viewing.
10. Enable/disable time display on video – the current system date/time could be displayed on the left
corner of the video if this selection is enabled.
When this modication is “Save&Apply”ed, it works immediately, but all the connected video viewing users
will be disconnected.
Figure 3-10: Video settings page

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3.6. 3GPP/RTSP settings
The video server product is able to be viewed from a 3G mobile phone, for detailed settings on the 3G
mobile phone, please refer to Appendix E.
Users can disable the 3G mobile access ability in this page. After the 3GPP/RTSP feature is disabled, no 3G
mobile phone is allowed to access the video of the video server product. When this is disabled, the rtsp
stream with MPEG2 audio is still working, please refer to Appendix F for more details about rtsp stream
with MPEG2 audio.
When the 3GPP is enabled, the video frame rate, resolution and bandwidth for 3G mobile access could be
set independently from the video settings for KraunView(PC) access. The maximum allowed resolution
is 352x255 and maximum allowed bandwidth is 256 kbps. When the audio is enabled for both 3GPP and
KraunView(PC) and the video/audio is displayed in KraunView, the audio will be disabled in 3G mobile
display.
The “Access URL” line is the url address for 3G mobile phone to input for seeing the video of the video server
product. Dierent 3G mobile may need to input this url in dierent way, detailed information could be
found in the user manual of dierent 3G mobiles. Please be noticed that usually public IP address is needed
for the video server product, so that the 3G mobile could access the video server product’s video.
The default setting is “Enable 3GPP/RTSP”.
Figure 3-11: 3GPP/RTSP enabled page

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3.7. RS485 settings
The video server product provides the RS485 interface for speed dome control. The supported protocols
are Pelco-P and Pelco-D. When connecting the video server to the speed dome, better using the twisted-
pair cable and the polarity of the connection must be correct.
1. Enable/disable RS485 control – this is to enable the RS485 control. When this is enabled, the PTZ
control function will be enabled.
2. RS485 protocol – select the Pelco-P or Pelco-D protocol.
3. Camera Address – the camera address of the controlled speed dome.
4. Baud rate – the data rate of the control signals for controlling the speed dome.
Figure 3-12: RS485 settings page

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3.8. Email/ftp Alarm
The video server product provides the Email/ftp function, you can enable or schedule the Email/ftp ability
in this page, the video server product will then send out an email with a jpeg picture attached in the email
and/or send out the jpeg picture le to a ftp server. The related settings are explained below:
1. Email/FTP trigger – choose between “motion”, “D/I”, “schedule” and “disable”
A. If “motion” is selected, it means that when there is a motion detected, the system will send out the
email and/or ftp with the captured video snapshot.
B. If “D/I” is selected, it means that when there is a Digital input alarm detected, the system will send
out the email and/or ftp with the captured video snapshot. If the D/I alarm is constantly on, the
Video server will keep sending out email/ftp message every second for up to 30 seconds.
C. If “schedule” is selected, it means that the email/ftp alarm detection and triggering will be
scheduled by the “scheduling” in section 3.11.
D. “disable” will disable the email/ftp alarm.
2. Motion sensitivity – there are three possible choices in this eld.
“High” means high sensitivity, i.e., the detection is triggered by a very small movement in the video
image. If “High” is selected and the size of the moving object is larger than about 1% of the whole video
area, it is detected. Please be noticed that the real size of the object could be large or small, anyway, the
detection is only based on the relative size of the object. Probably a small pencil moving near the video
server product could be detected, but a moving car far away from the video server product could not
be detected.
“Low” means low sensitivity, i.e., the detection is triggered by a very large movement. If the size of the
moving object is larger than about 10% of the whole video area, it is detected. “Median” means 3% to
trigger the detection.
3. Send email message – if this item is enabled, the video server product will send out an email message
with the jpeg picture attached to the specied email account.
4. Email recipient – this is the email address to receive the detection notice message. An email message
with the jpeg picture le named by the date/time of the triggered moment will reach this address.
5. SMTP server – this is the SMTP server that will help to transfer the email message. This server is
irrelevant to the “Email recipient” address.
6. SMTP username/password – this the account to use the SMTP server to transfer the email message.
The SMTP server and username/password account are only for transfer the email message to the
“Email recipient”, the “Email recipient” could be on another email server or any reachable email
address. The username and password elds could be left empty if no authentication is needed for the
SMTP server.
7. Send FTP message – if this item is enabled, the video server product will send out a jpeg picture le to
the specied ftp account.
8. FTP server – this is the FTP server address to receive the jpeg le.
9. FTP username/password – this is the username/password to login into the FTP server, so, this
triggered jpeg le will be allowed to reach this FTP server.
10. Remote folder – the jpeg le will be put under this folder of the FTP server.

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When this modication is “Save&Apply”ed, it works immediately, but all the connected video viewing users
will be disconnected.
The default setting is “Disable”.
Figure 3-13: Email/FTP Alarm page

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3.9. DI/DO settings
The video server product provides DI/DO alarm function, a video motion detection or the digital input
signal could trigger the digital output alarm. The duration of the alarm could also be set. The related
settings are explained below:
1. Digital input – can select the normal status of the digital input as either open circuit or closed circuit.
The current status is also displayed.
2. Digital output – can select the normal status of the digital output as either open circuit or closed
circuit. The current status is also displayed.
3. D/O alarm – select the trigger mode of the digital out alarm
A. Motion trigger – if this is selected, the digital output alarm signal will be active when video
motion is detected. The detection sensitivity is set In the “motion detection” page.
B. D/I trigger – if this is selected, the digital output alarm signal will be active when the digital input
signal is detected..
C. Schedule – if this is selected, the digital output alarm is scheduled according to the settings of
scheduling in section 3.11.
D. Active – force the digital output to be active.
E. Normal–force the digital output to be normal.
1. D/O Alarm duration – this is the digital output alarm duration for each trigger.
Figure 3-14: DI/DO Settings page