Ivms-5200 User Manual_client

iVMS-5200 User Manual_ Client

iVMS-5200 V2.2

User Manual_Client

(2014-Feb-19)

Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.


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Contents

Notices .............................................................................................. 2

Contents ........................................................................................... 3

Chapter1. Introduction ...................................................................... 5

1.1 iVMS-5200 Overall Description ........................................................................................... 5

1.2 iVMS-5200 Client Description ............................................................................................. 5

1.3 iVMS-5200 Video Wall Glossary .......................................................................................... 5

Chapter2. Environment Requirement ................................................. 7

Chapter3. Running iVMS-5200 Client ................................................. 8

3.1 Login .................................................................................................................................... 8

3.2 General Functions ............................................................................................................... 8

3.3 Multi-screen Viewing ........................................................................................................ 10

Chapter4. Live View ........................................................................ 11

4.1 Live View Interface ............................................................................................................ 11

4.2 Viewing Camera ................................................................................................................ 12

4.3 Viewing Operation ............................................................................................................ 12

4.4 I/O Alarm Control .............................................................................................................. 14

4.5 PTZ control ........................................................................................................................ 14

4.6 Alarm Management .......................................................................................................... 16

Chapter5. Playback ......................................................................... 18

5.1 Playback Interface ............................................................................................................. 18

5.2 Normal Playback................................................................................................................ 18

5.3 Segment Playback ............................................................................................................. 20

5.4 Event Playback ................................................................................................................... 21

5.5 Playback Control ................................................................................................................ 21

4.6 Download and Backup ...................................................................................................... 23

Chapter6. E-Map .............................................................................. 25

6.1 E-map Navigation .............................................................................................................. 25

6.2 E-map Operation ............................................................................................................... 26

Chapter7. Video Wall Client ............................................................. 28

7.1 Decoding Resources Setup ................................................................................................ 28

7.2 Manual Control, Jointing, Windowing and Scene Management ....................................... 29

7.3 Auto-switch Schedule ........................................................................................................ 33

7.4 Displaying Alarm Images on Video Wall ............................................................................ 35

7.5 Playback on Video Wall ..................................................................................................... 36

Chapter8. System Configuration ...................................................... 38

8.1 General Settings ................................................................................................................ 38

8.2 Local Settings ..................................................................................................................... 39

8.3 Display Settings ................................................................................................................. 40

8.4 Group Settings ................................................................................................................... 40

8.5 Keyboard Settings .............................................................................................................. 41

Chapter9. Tools ............................................................................... 42

9.1 Backup Management ........................................................................................................ 42


9.2 Log Management .............................................................................................................. 43

9.3 Two-way Audio .................................................................................................................. 44

9.4 People Counting ................................................................................................................ 44

9.5 Video Player ...................................................................................................................... 45

9.6 Soft Keyboard .................................................................................................................... 46


Chapter1. Introduction

1.1 iVMS-5200 Overall Description

iVMS-5200 Intelligent Video Management System features flexibility, scalability

high reliability and powerful functions. By making full use of the existing equipment

and data, the system provides perfect resource management, security

management, data update and maintenance. It is capable of integrating with

multiple surveillance systems distributed in different places to realize central

management and coordination of the monitoring resources. It could manage a CCTV

system with thousands of cameras in a hierarchical way.

1.2 iVMS-5200 Client Description

iVMS-5200 Client is used for daily monitoring operation. It support video live

viewing, PTZ control, voice talk, video search, playback and download, alarm

handling, E-map viewing, etc. It must be connected with CMS to get its

authorized-device list and other permissions.

1.3 iVMS-5200 Video Wall Glossary

Video Wall Client (also called VMC, Video Matrix Client) is used to control Video Walls.

There are some other words that you may encounter on the software. The table

below explains them in details:

NAME DESCRIPTION

Video Wall A video wall is a set of Screens or Monitors that are connected

together.

Screen/Monitor A screen/monitor is a physical display device, which is connected

with one decoding output channel at a time.

Window A window is a logical area where one camera is displayed. A

window can be equal to a screen/monitor, a part of a

screen/monitor, or a combination of several screens/monitors.

Decoding

Device

A decoding device is used to decode digital streams into actual

videos. Embedded decoders, and decoding card are all decoding

devices.

Decoding

output

A decoding output is a display interface of a decoding device. The

interface could be HDMI, DVI or BNC. A decoding output is

connected with a screen/monitor.


Division A decoding output can display multiple cameras. We call this kind

of function division. For example, when we display four cameras

on a monitor, we call it 4-division.

Jointing We can link several screens/monitors together, and show one

camera on all the screens/monitors. We call this kind of action

jointing. This function depends on decoding resource hardware.

Jointed

Window

Those screens/monitors that are connected to show one camera

generates a jointed window.

Windowing The action that opens a new window on a screen/monitor is called

windowing. This function depends on decoding resource

hardware.

Floating

Window

Floating window is the output of windowing. A floating window

can be moved within a jointed window.

Layout The positions of all the screens/monitors, and the positions of all

the windows, including normal windows, jointed windows and

roaming windows, are called a layout of the video wall.

Scene Layout plus camera information is called a scene. Calling a scene

will set the layout and playing pre-defined cameras on video wall.

Auto-Switch

Schedule

An auto-switch schedule is defined to play multiple cameras on

one screen/monitor or multiple screens/monitors in cycle.

Single Scene

Auto-Switch

It is an auto-switch schedule mode on which the layout is not

change.

Multi-Scene

Auto-Switch

It is an auto-switch schedule mode on which the layout is

changing along with cameras.

Some of the words are referred to physical devices or concepts, such as Video Wall,

Screen/Monitor, Window, and Decoding Device. Generally speaking, these devices

or concepts have corresponding virtual concepts on the software interface. So,

when we use such a word, we may refer to one of them. For example, when we say

Video Wall, we may refer to a physical video wall, which consists of physical

screens/monitors, and we may refer to a picture or icon on Video Wall client, which

is for you to operate on.


Chapter2. Environment Requirement

Hardware+Software Requirement

The general requirement for the hardware is as below, which can satisfy most

requirements.

For Web Manager

and Client

CPU: Intel Xeon E5502 or above

Memory: 4G DDR3

NIC: 1000M NIC

OS: Windows XP SP3/ Windows 7

Web Browser: IE 7 / IE 8

To view more cameras or more HD cameras simultaneously, more powerful CPU,

display card, memory are required. The table below shows how many cameras(with

different resolutions and bitrates) can be decoded and displayed on different

hardware. The figures are results of lab testing and could only be used as a

reference.

HARDWARE CAMERA

CPU Display

Card

Memory 4CIF@

2Mbps

720P@

3Mbps

UXGA@

4Mbps

1080P@6

Mbps

Intel Core

i7 950

Geforce

GTX 260

4G 60 32 12 10

Intel Core i7

920

Geforce

GTX 260

4G 55 29 12 7

Intel Core

i5 750

Geforce

GTX 460

4G 32 18 9 6

AMD

Phenom

X6 1090T

Geforce

GT 220

4G 40 24 10 6

AMD

Phenom

X4 955

Geforce

9800GT

4G 29 13 6 4


Chapter3. Running iVMS-5200 Client

3.1 Login

After installation, there will a shortcut of the software on desktop, which is like

. To start the software and login:

Step1: Double click the shortcut to start the software.

Step2: When running the Client for the first time, click the button on

the login dialog. Type in the IP address of the CMS (Central Management Server)

and http port in the expanded area of the login dialog.

Step3: Then, type in the user name and password. Please contact system

administrator for your user name and password.

Step4: Click OK to login. Tick the Remember Password box if you dont want to

enter password every time when login, or tick the Auto-login box if you always use

a same account to login by default.

3.2 General Functions

After login, you will see the main interface of the software. On the top-left corner

are the software menus. The meanings of each item are described below.

MAIN MENU SUB MENU DESCRIPTION

System Switch User Show the login interface, and switch active user from

there.

Change Password Change the password of current user.

Lock System Lock the system. Input the password of current user

to unlock.

Exit Exit the software.

View Playback Show Playback button on the Navigation Bar.

E-map Show E-map button on the Navigation Bar.

Display All Views Show all the buttons on the Navigation Bar.

Auxiliary screen live

view

Show aux screen if the PC has multiple display

interfaces.

Alarm Information Show Alarm Message button on the Bottom.


I/O Alarm Control Show I/O Alarm Control panel in Live View interface.

Alarm Host Status Show Alarm Host Status panel in Live View interface.

PTZ Control Show PTZ Control panel in Live View interface.

Preset/Patrol/Pattern Show Preset/Patrol/Pattern panel in Live View

interface.

Video Parameters

Show I/O Video Parameters panel in Live View

interface.

Display All Panels Show all panel in Live View interface.

Full Screen Display live video in full screen.

Tools Backup Management Pop up Backup Management dialog.

Log Management Pop up Log Management dialog.

Two-way Audio Pop up Two-way Audio dialog.

Video Player Run video player.

Soft Keyboard Run soft keyboard

Video Wall Client Run Video Wall Client

System Configuration Pop up system configuration dialog.

Help User Manual Pop up user manual

About Display the software version.

Below software menu is the Navigation Bar. You can redirect to different interfaces

from here by clicking on navigation buttons. By default, Live View is the 1st

navigation button on the bar and it cannot be hid. Others, including Playback,

E-map, can be shown or hid by using the View menu or the button at the

top-right corner of the navigation buttons.

And there are a few buttons on the top-right corner of the software. You can check

the system date and time, alarm status, CPU and memory usage, current user, free

space of HDD partition where local record files are kept. You can also check and

adjust system volume.

When you close or log off the Client software, you will be asked whether to save the

current live viewing scene. Click Yes to save the current scene into the local Client

software configuration file, and the cameras you are viewing now will be shown at

the same windows when you run or log in the Client software again. Click No to

discard the current scene, and the latest scene you have saved will be used when

you run or log in the Client software again. Click Cancel to go back to the Client

software main interface.


3.3 Multi-screen Viewing

On View menu, you can decide to show which modules on the navigation bar and

whether to show auxiliary live view screens. You can double click module name

(such as ) to segregate the interface from the main interface.

Then, you can move the interfaces (Playback, E-map or auxiliary live view screen) to

another screen, enlarge it to full-screen or close it. When you close a segregated

interface, it will come back to the main interface.


Chapter4. Live View

4.1 Live View Interface

The first interface you will see is . Camera list is displayed on the left. So

are the I/O Alarm control, PTZ control, Preset/Patrol/Pattern and Video Parameters

panels. In the center is the Camera Image display area.

Note:

Only the sites and areas with at least one camera are listed on the resource tree in

Live View module.

Description of buttons at the bottom of Live View interface:

BUTTON DESCRIPTION BUTTON DESCRIPTION

Stop all

Capture all

Start/Stop all manual

recording

Pause/resume

auto-switch

Next page

Previous page

Window-division mode

Full screen, click again

to restore.

Display video in full

window or in its original

width/height ratio.

Please note that the pause/resume auto-switch, next page and previous page

buttons will only be enabled when you are viewing a camera group. You need to

create a camera group in System Configuration (please refer to section 8.4 for

details) first.

You can click on a window to select it, or double click on it to view it in Single-window

layout.

You can click the corresponding window-division button to change the display layout.

If the number of windows is smaller than 9, main stream will be used for all cameras.

Otherwise, the Client software will switch to sub stream. You can double click a

window to show it alone in main stream, and double click it again to restore back to

previous layout.

Note:


Switch between main stream and sub stream will stop manual recording.

4.2 Viewing Camera

To view a camera:

Step1: Expand the camera tree and select a camera. You can also use the search

text box to help find the camera you want. You also can drag a camera icon and drop

it on a window to view it.

Step2: Double click the camera to view the images in selected window. Next

unoccupied window will be selected automatically. If there is no unoccupied window

on the screen, the window will remain selected.

Step3: Repeat Step1 and Step2 to view more cameras.

To view cameras under an area:

Step1: Drag an area icon and drop it on a window. In this case, the first camera

under this area will be displayed on the selected window; the second camera under

this area will be displayed on next window, and so on, until the last window of

current layout is used.

Or you can double click the area icon. In this case, no matter you are viewing

some cameras or not, the first camera under this area will be displayed on the first

window, the second camera under this area will be displayed on the second window,

and so on, until the last window of current layout is used.

No auto-switch is available in this case.

To use auto-switch function:

Step1: Configure Group Settings in System Configuration. Please refer to section

8.4 for details.

Step2: Drag a group icon under My Group, which looks like , and drop to a

window. The cameras under this group will start playing on all the windows. The

pause/resume auto-switch, next page and previous page buttons will become

enabled. You can use them to control the auto-switching.

4.3 Viewing Operation

Once you are viewing a camera, a few actions you can take, either by the buttons on

toolbar or by using content menu.

Description of buttons on toolbar and content menu:


TOOLBAR BUTTON CONTENT MENU ACTION

/ Start manual recording /

Stop manual recording.

Start manual recording / Stop

manual recording.

Snapshot Take a snapshot

/ PTZ control Enter / Exit PTZ mode

/ Turn on audio / Mute Turn on / off audio

Two-way audio Start / Stop two-way audio

/ Digital Zoom / Exit digital

zoom

Enter / Exit digital zoom mode

/

Instant Playback / Stop

instant playback

Start / Stop instant playback

Not available on

tool bar

Switch to sub stream /

Switch to main stream

Switch to sub stream / main

stream

Not available on

tool bar

Manual Alarm Trigger I/O output in Manual

Alarm dialog

Not available on

tool bar

Playback Start playback of this camera

Close Stop viewing this camera

In instant playback mode, there is a message overlaid on the video. The

toolbar and content menu are a little different from live viewing mode.



/ Turn on audio / Mute Turn on / off audio

Two-way audio Start / Stop two-way audio

Stop instant playback Stop instant playback

Save instant playback

video

Save the instant video from

buffer to HDD.

/

Not available on content

menu

Pause / Restart playing


menu

View previous frame

Not available on content View next frame


menu


menu

Display current time and total

time duration in normal

playback mode.


menu

Display current frame number

and total frames in frame by

frame playback mode

Close Stop viewing this camera

4.4 I/O Alarm Control

To control I/O alarm, select I/O Alarm Control (I) from the View Menu or click the

button the I/O Alarm Control panel to display I/O Alarm Control Panel.

The I/O input and output will be listed on resource tree. Right click an alarm output

to select Refresh, Open or Close.

4.5 PTZ control

Once you are viewing a PTZ camera, you can carry PTZ control, call or set presets,

and adjust video parameters.

Description of buttons on PTZ Control:

TOOLBAR BUTTON ACTION TOOLBAR BUTTON ACTION

Directional

control. Click

to

start/stop

Turn on/off light


auto-scan.

Zoom in and

zoom out

Start/Stop wiper

Focus control

Speed adjustment

for PT function

Iris control

Enable 3D position

function

Preset Page.

Patrol Page

Pattern Page Page navigation and

fast selection of

preset/patrol/patter

.

At preset, patrol or pattern panel, you can:

1. Click an empty preset, patrol or pattern to add a new one.

2. Click a filled preset, patrol or patter to call it.

3. Right click on an empty preset, patrol or pattern, and select add a new one.

4. Right click on a filled preset, patrol or pattern, and select Call/Set/Modify/Delete

it.

To set a patrol:

Step1: Right click on a filled patrol, select Set Patrol.

Step2: In Patrol Settings dialog, click Add to add a node.

Step3: Double click the preset cell to select a preset for this node. Double click Time

and Speed cells to set the dwell time and moving speed.

Step4: Repeat Step2 and Step3 to add more nodes for the patrol.

Step5: Click OK to save the settings.

To set a pattern:

Step1: Right click on a filled pattern, and select Record Pattern.

Step2: There will be a red dot to indicate that the pattern is under recording, like

. Move the camera as you need to record the behavior.


Step3: Right click on the pattern again, and select Stop Recording and save the

settings.

You also can:

1. Use to change pages of preset, patrol or pattern.

2. Use to call a preset, patrol or pattern directly, which is difficult

to find on the page.

4.6 Alarm Management

Alarm Message panel is at the bottom of the software. Click at the bottom-right

corner to show it if it is hidden. Click to show the alarm messages in a separate

interface.

If it is closed, you can show it again by clicking View->Display All Views on the

main menu. If system administrator has configured some alarms to be handled by

the client, alarm messages will appear in Alarm Message panel.

You can check the alarm name, its priority, triggered time, alarm source, current

status and confirmed information from this panel. Confirmed alarm messages will

be moved to tab page.

Description of buttons on Alarm Message Panel:

ICON DESCRIPTION

Select an alarm message and click this button to view the

details of the alarm, including its confirmation remarks

Select an occurring alarm and click this button to pop up

Confirm dialog. In this dialog, input description of this

alarm and click OK to save the description and confirm the

alarm message.

Select an occurring alarm and click this button to confirm

the alarm message directly.

Select an alarm message and click this button to remove it

from the list

Click this button to remove all stopped alarm messages.

Click this button to pop up Manual Alarm dialog.

Click this button to pop up Disarm dialog.


To initiate two-way audio with a front-end device:

If the alarm is linked with a two-way audio channel, you can click button to start

two-way audio and ask relative staff to take actions immediately.

To use manual alarm function:

Sometimes, you want to give other security guards an alarm, to warn them about

something. To do that:

Just click button to pop up Manual Alarm dialog. Then, you can

select users in the system and send an alarm message to them manually. The

content of alarm message can be user-defined.

To disarm alarms:

Sometimes, you are sure that the alarms are false and you dont want the false

alarms to bother you. You can disarm these alarms. To do that:

Step1: Click button to show Disarm dialog. The areas will be displayed

on a resource tree.

Step2: Select an area first, and the camera alarm and I/O alarm under this area will

be listed separately in two tab pages.

Step3: Select one alarm and click bottom to disarm an alarm. Or click

to disarm all the alarms in the selected area.

Disarmed alarms wont trigger any action but it is still got recorded in the log.

You need set up a time period for the unarmed alarms. After that, the alarms

will be armed again. You can click button to arm the alarms

immediately.


Chapter5. Playback

5.1 Playback Interface

Three playback modes are provided by the client software and can be selected by

clicking

Normal playback: searching the recording files by camera, time and storage

device.

Segment playback: searching the recording files by camera, time and storage

device, and playing back some different segments of files at the same time in order

to find the needed recording information more quickly.

Event Playback: searching the recording files by camera alarm or IO alarm.

Note:

Only the cameras with at least one recording solution configured are listed on the

resource tree in Playback module.

Note:

Only the current active recording solutions will be listed. For example, you used

Storage Server to keep recording for 5 days, and then, you changed to device local

storage and canceled Storage Server recording. So now, you wont be able to find

the recording files on Storage Server, though the record files are there actually. So,

in this case, we suggest you to switch to an empty recording template if you want to

turn off a recording solution.

5.2 Normal Playback

To use normal playback:

Step1: Select the division mode in which you want to playback by using

and 1/4/9/16 divisions are supported. Then select a window

for playback.

Step2: Select a recording solution (Device Storage and Storage Server), and on the

resource tree below, you can select a camera.

Please note that if there is only one recording solution for the camera, you can

double click this camera to playback its recording files of current date quickly in the

selected window. If there are multiple recording solutions, you can show all the

solutions by expanding the camera icon. Double click a recording solution to search


recording files and start playing.

Step3: Select the query time and recording type. Then click button

to search the matched recording files.

Step4: If recording file exists, it will be displayed in the time bar area. Click the

button on the tool bar of a certain window to start playback this camera, or click

button on central bar to start playback all selected cameras.

If you hover your mouse on one point of a time bar, the snapshot of the video at that

time will be displayed on top of the time bar.

Note:

If DST function is enabled, the time bar will look different when the time changes.

If the time jumps forward, the system will cut this period out of the time bar. For

example, if the time jumps forward for 1 hour at 1:00 to 2:00, the 1:00 on the time

bar is actually 2:00.

If the time jumps backward, the system will add this period on the time bar. For

example, if the time jumps backward for 1 hour at 2:00 to 1:00, the time bar will

show 1:00 twice.


But please note that DST function is effective for Storage Server recording only

at this moment.

5.3 Segment Playback

In this mode, user can play back some different segments of a certain file at the

same time in order to locate the needed recording segment more quickly.

To use segment playback:

Step1: Select the window for playback, the channel from the site tree and the

numbers of segments and query time.

Step2: Click the button to search the matched record files. If

there is a record file, it will be displayed in the time bar area. Different recording

segments will be display in different sections.


Step3: Click the button to start playback.

5.4 Event Playback

In this mode, user can play back according to the event types (camera alarm, IO

alarm).

To use event playback mode:

Step1: Select a window for playback. Select alarms that you are interested from the

resource tree.

Step2: Select query time. Click button to search the matched

recording files, if existed, they will be shown in the Event Info.

Step3: Double click to enter the Linked Record interface, click to

playback. You can also select time in the time axis.

5.5 Playback Control

Descriptions of central bar buttons, from left to right:

BUTTON ACTION

Set the playback speed. X1 means normal speed,

which others means slow playback or fast playback

/ Start all / Pause all playback

Stop all playback

Take snapshots for all cameras.

Enter single-frame play mode and display next

frame


/

Switch to synchronous playback mode or

asynchronous playback mode

/

Display video in its original width/height ratio or in

full window.

Select a window layout.

/ Display video in full screen mode, click again to

restore.

Download record files by time

Display download management dialog

Clear all the search result and release all windows.

/

Display / hide 16 time bars

Description of buttons on toolbar and content menu of a linked window:


Play Start playback

Close Stop playback and release the

window.

/ Turn on audio / Turn off

audio

Turn on / off audio

/ Digital Zoom / Exit digital

zoom

Enter / Exit digital zoom mode


/ Start clipping / Stop

clipping

Start / Stop making a video

clip

Stop Stop playback, but the window

is not released.

Description of time bar operation

1. Zoom in or zoom out the time bar

You can click button to zoom in, so that you can operate on the time

bar more exactly. The minimum time span is 5 minutes.

You also can click button to zoom out, to get a general view of the

record files. The maximum time span is 6 hours.


2. Synchronous playback

In synchronous playback mode, click on the time bar, drag it to the time you

want to start playback, release the mouse to start. The exact time is displayed

on the top of the time bar.

3. Asynchronous playback

In asynchronous playback mode, double click on a time bar to jump to a time

and start playback from there. Each time bar can be setup separately.

4. Download video clips

Press the Ctrl key on your keyboard, and then drag the mouse to select the

segment from the time bar. Right click on the segment to select Download the

segment.

4.6 Download and Backup

To download a video clip by time, you could:

1. Select a time bar with recording files, click button to pop up the download

dialog, set the start time and end time, and click OK to download the record file.

2. Press the Ctrl key on your keyboard, and then drag the mouse to select the

segment from the time bar. Right click on the segment to select Download the

segment.


Click of the button to enter the record query and download interface to

view the download percentage of the files.

Backup Management

The backup configuration allows you to back up record files from remote device or

centralized storage. Three backup methods are selectable: Local backup, CD/DVD

burning and upload to FTP.

Step1: Select cameras from the resource tree for backup.

Step2: Select file type and time range for search.

Step3: Click Search and all the matched files will be shown on the time line.

Step4: When holding the Ctrl button, you can move your mouse to drag the clips

or you can check the box to select all clips, and then select the directory

to save recording files. Finally, click to start backup.

You can pause downloading by clicking Pause and delete the download files by

clicking Delete. You can also configure download speed and maximum numbers of

concurrent backups by clicking Option.

Step5 (optional): Select the downloaded files, and then select the DVD/CD and click

Start to start burning files. You can select burn or not burn players with the files.


Step6 (optional): Switch to . Select the downloaded

files and click Upload files. Enter IP address, port, user name, password of the

server and the path to store. Click Start to upload files to the server.

Chapter6. E-Map

To use E-map function, click button to enter the E-map interface first.

6.1 E-map Navigation

To show a E-map, just click an E-map icon, which looks like , on the Map

Information resource tree at the left side.

E-map elements, including camera, I/O input, I/O output, map link or remark, are

also available on the resource tree. Double click on one of them to show the element

and the related E-map.

Description of buttons on toolbar:

BUTTON ACTION

Display one E-map.

Display four E-maps on a single screen. The

three smaller windows are used to display

E-maps with alarms.


Display E-map interface on full screen.

Jump to parent E-map

Back to previous E-map

Clear all the alarm messages.

Refresh the E-map and get the latest E-map

from CMS server.

Thumbnails of E-maps on the same level. Click

on them to show the E-map.

6.2 E-map Operation

On the E-map, there is a navigation bar.

Click , or to zoom in or zoom out.

If the E-map is zoomed in and only part of the E-map is displayed, click , ,

or to move up, down, right or left. You can also move the displaying

area by dragging and dropping the E-map.

Click to enter the center of the E-map.

Right-click on an E-map element to show the possible actions on it, and take

one of the actions.

Double click on a camera icon to view the live images.

Cameras with alarms with be displayed as

On the right side of the interface, there are three panels. Click the button at

the bottom-right corner to show/hide the panels. Click the or to show or

hide the panels.

Control Panel: select the elements you want to display on the E-map

Map Navigation: display the thumbnail of the E-map. If the E-map is zoomed in

and only part of the E-map is displayed, you can see the complete picture of the

E-map here and moved the displaying area by dragging the white rectangle on


the thumbnail.

Preset on Map: click an empty preset button to add a map preset. Click a filled

preset to call it, and the E-map will be displayed at his previous position and

zooming level. Right click on an empty preset to call, modify or delete the map

preset.


Chapter7. Video Wall Client

To control video wall, start Video Wall Client by clicking Main Menu->Tool->Video

Wall Client, or pressing Ctrl+Alt+C.

Make sure you have added decoders and VWS(Video Wall Server) to the system,

linked the decoders to the VWS and created at least one Video Wall on Web Manager.

7.1 Decoding Resources Setup

The first step you need to take is to link decoding resources with screen/monitors on

the video wall. To do this:

Step1: Enter Resource module, and select a video wall by using

.

Step2: On the left side, there is a decoding resource tree, which lists the interfaces

of decoders. On the main area, there is a virtual video wall, which simulates the

physical video wall.

According to the actual physical connection, drag decoding resources and drop

them to the right corresponding windows of the virtual video wall. As shown below,

the 1st VGA interface of a decoder is linked with the screen/monitor at the top-left

corner.


Step3: Right-click a linked window, and then you can set its maximum decoding

resolution: 1080P, 720P, D1, CIF.

7.2 Manual Control, Jointing, Windowing and

Scene Management

Now you are able to carry out dynamic decoding, jointing, windowing and scene

management. To do these:

Step1: Enter Wall Control module.

Step2: Right-click on screens/monitors. Select the division type. Then, you will

have the layout of the video wall.


Step3(Jointing): You can click on a window, hold your mouse and drag it to

another window, and when you release the mouse, you will be asked to joint the

window.

Click Joint button to joint the window.


Click on a jointed window to turn it off.

Step4 (Windowing): You can drag your mouse on a jointed window to create a

floating window. You can create several floating windows on one jointed window.

You can modify their sizes and their layers, lock them or close them.


Note:

Jointing and windowing requires decoding resource hardware to support.

Step5 (Manual Control): Enter Sources tab page on the left resource tree. Drag

cameras on the left to the windows on the virtual Video Wall to decode. If an

icon appears on the window, it means the window is decoding and displaying videos

successfully.

Step6 (Scene Management): You can save the scene (the layout of windows and

which cameras are displaying on which window) by using the Save or Save As

buttons ( ).

Step7: You can right-click on a decoding window and select Stop decoding to stop

the decoding, or click to stop all the decoding.

Step8: You can use to switch to another scene.

Or click to pop up a dialog, on which you can delete useless scenes.

Step9: You can double-click a camera to open a live view window at the

bottom-right corner. Right-click on the window and you can take PTZ operations or

close the window.


7.3 Auto-switch Schedule

There are two types of auto-switch schedule: single-scene and multi-scene.

Single-scene means that the layout is not changing, and multiple cameras are

displaying on the windows in turn. Multi-scene means that several scenes are

displayed in turn.

To add Single-scene Auto-switch

Step1: Enter Auto-switch module.

Step2: Click to pop up Add auto-switch schedule dialog.

Step3: Select a video wall, give this auto-switch schedule a name, set its start time

and end time.

Step4: Select Single-scene auto-switch and input an auto-switch interval. Click

Next.

Step5: To select auto-switch windows, just click on the wanted windows in

sequence.

Step6: To add cameras, just select the wanted cameras and click .

Click OK to complete the configuration process.

To add Multi-scene Auto-switch

Step1: Enter Auto-switch module.

Step2: Click to pop up Add auto-switch schedule dialog.

Step3: Select a video wall, give this auto-switch schedule a name, set its start time

and end time.

Step4: Select Multi-scene auto-switch

Step5: Click Add button, and choose the scenes that you want to view.

Step6: You can click on Retention time to modify the auto-switch interval. Click OK

to complete the configuration process.

To check auto-switch schedule

Still in Auto-switch module, just click an auto-switch schedule on the resource tree


on the left, and the information will be displayed on the main area.

To use auto-switch schedule

Step1: Enter Wall Control module

Step2: Enter Auto-switch tab page on the resource tree on the left.

Step3: Right-click on an auto-switch schedule, and select Start. Or by the time of

the start time of the auto-switch schedule, it will start automatically.

Step4: Once the auto-switch schedule is started, it can be paused or stopped. Icon

will appear on the windows that displaying auto-switch cameras.

Step5: Once the auto-switch schedule is stopped, the windows will keep displaying

the last cameras. If you click the Refresh button, you will find that the windows are

in dynamic decoding mode now.


7.4 Displaying Alarm Images on Video Wall

To display alarm images, please make sure you have installed AMS(Alarm

Management Server) and configured the alarms properly. Then:

Step1: Select Alarm module.

Step2: Click Alarm scene management, and select a scene as Alarm scene. (Only

one scene can be used for alarm images pop up)

Step3: Select an alarm by clicking on one of the alarms on the resource tree.

Step4: Setup an alarm action. To do this, click on a window to pop up

Please select the camera dialog. And select a camera from the list.

As shown in the below example, when a video loss alarm occurred on camera

407, the images of camera 2312 will be shown on the top-left window of the top-left

screen/monitor.

Configured alarms will be marked as on the resource list.


Step5: Click Save to keep the settings.

Step6: If you need to modify the camera, you can select it first and:

- Click Delete to remove the added cameras.

- Click Clear to clear all monitoring points which have been added.

Step7: Then, you can enter Wall Control module. When the alarm video is displayed,

there will be an icon on the virtual window.

7.5 Playback on Video Wall

To playback record files on video wall, you need to make sure that the relative VRM

is working properly. Then,

Step1: Enter Playback module

Step2: Link a recording solution with a playback channel.

If there is only one recording solution for the camera, you can double click this

camera to link the recording solution with a playback channel. If there are multiple

recording solutions, you can show all the solutions by expanding the camera icon.

And then, double click a recording solution to link it with a playback channel.

Note:

Only the active recording solutions will be listed. For example, you used Storage

Server to keep recording for 5 days, and then, you changed to device local storage

and canceled Storage Server recording. So now, you wont be able to find the

recording files on Storage Server, though the record files are there actually. So, in

this case, we suggest you to switch to an empty recording template if you want to

turn off a recording solution.

Step3: Set the search conditions. Click Search record files button to find recording

files. If files are found, they will be shown on the time bar.

Step4: Double click on the time bar to set its start position for playback.

Step5: Drag the name of the cameras on the time bar to a window on the virtual

Video Wall to playback the recording files.


Step6: If the Video Wall displays , it means playback successfully.

Note:

After playback start, you are not able to control the progress. You will need to stop

current playback, set a new start position and start playback again.


Chapter8. System Configuration

The System Configuration is provided for configuring the parameters and functions

of client software. Click Tool -> System Configuration to enter the system

configuration menu. Five major options are provided as below.

8.1 General Settings

Description of options in General Settings page.

MENU ITEM DESCRIPTION

Login

Settings

Auto-start Automatically start the client when the OS boot up.

Auto-login Automatically login after the client start with the last login

account or not.

Play

Settings

Play

Performance

It decides whether to drop B-frames when decoding video

streams for live viewing. If the CPU is powerful, no need to drop

the B-frames. This option effect only live viewing. The local

record files will have all the frames.

Decoding

Performance

It decides the size of buffer for live viewing. Minimum delay

means the buffer size is small and the frames will be played

immediately, but the video may be jerking because of this.

Best fluency means the buffer size is large and less jerking may

occur, but more delay for live viewing.

Pre-decoding

Buffer

It refers the buffer size for manual recording (200~10240KB),

which determines how many seconds of video before you click

manual record button could be saved.

Post-decoding

Buffer

It decides how many frames (10~50Frame) of video after you

stop manual recording could be saved.

Synchro Time It refers to the time-out duration (5~30s) to locate a video time

stamp in synchronize playback mode.

Asynchro

Time

It refers to the time-out duration (3~30s) to locate a video time

stamp in asynchronous playback mode.

Alarm

Settings

Audible

Warning

Tick this box to enable audio warning function. If an

alarm has been configured to trigger Client Sound Alarm,

the software will give audio warning to you. You need to

choose one audio source from the following options.

Voice Engine Use Voice Engine as the voice source. The OS must support the

Voice Engine.

Buzzer Alarm Use the buzzer on the motherboard as the voice source.

Local Audio

File

Use a local audio file as the voice source. The file is selectable.

Repeat Sound Play sound alarm in a loop or not.


Alarm

Other

Settings

Auto-lock Lock the software automatically or not if no operation in a

defined period of time.

Display

Device Status

Display offline cameras with different icons or not.

8.2 Local Settings


MENU ITEM DESCRIPTION

Capture

Settings

Saving

Format

Set the snapshot format to be BMP or JPEG.

Saving Path Set the directory for keeping snapshots.

Save

Snapshot

Manually

If this function enabled, when you click the snapshot button,

the software will keep the snapshots temporarily, and you

need to decide whether to save or print the snapshots.

Continuous

Snapshot

If this function enabled, when you click the snapshot button,

the software will take several snapshots continuously. The

number of snapshots and the interval is configurable.

Local

Recording

File Size It decides the max file size when recording locally.

Saving Path Set the directory for keeping manual record files.

Set length

limitation

It decides the max video length of the record files.

Clip

Settings

File Size It decides the max file size when download video clips.

Saving Path Set the directory for keeping downloaded video clips.

Two-way

Audio

Record

two-way

audio

It decides whether to record two-way audio content to a file or

not.

Saving Path Set the directory for keeping two-way audio file.

Instant

Playback

Control Mode It decides how to control the size of instant playback file, by

buffer size or by video length.

Value

If control mode is By buffer, you can set the buffer size of each

channel to 2M, 5M or 10M for instant playback. Larger bit rate

of video stream, less video length can support.

If control mode is By length, you can set the video length from

30 seconds to 5 minutes. Larger bit rate of video stream, more

memory will be required for keeping the video stream

temporarily.


8.3 Display Settings


ITEM DESCRIPTION

Show live view window toolbar Display or hide the toolbar on live view windows

Show playback window toolbar Display or hide the toolbar on playback windows.

Toolbar Details Set which buttons should appear on live view or

playback window toolbars.

8.4 Group Settings

To build camera groups:

Step1: Click button to build a new group. Give this group a name and set its

auto-switch duration.

Step2: Click button to pop up Selectable Cameras dialog. On the left side

of the dialog, there is a resource tree. Select an area on the resource tree, and the

authorized cameras under this area will be listed in Optional Camera list. Select the

cameras you want or tick the Select all box. Then, the cameras will appear in

Selected Camera list. Click OK to complete the adding process.

Step3: You can add more cameras into the group by clicking the button

again, or delete unnecessary cameras by using button, or change the

sequence of the cameras by using or .

One camera can be added to multiple camera groups, or be added multiple times to

one camera group.

To delete or modify a camera group:

Just select a camera group and click the or button.

To share a camera group:

Just select a camera group and click the button. Shared group can be seen

and used by other users.

To use other users shared group:


Just right-click on a shared group and select Choose group. The shared group will be

added to My Group. And you can use it just as your own private group. Please note

that the cameras you dont have user permissions on will be removed from the list.

Select a camera group and click to cancel sharing the group.

8.5 Keyboard Settings

To use analog keyboard to control the software, please tick the Enable analog

keyboard control box, select keyboard model and the COM port, and configure its

communication parameters.

To use network keyboard to control the software, please tick the Enable network

keyboard control box, select keyboard model, and configure its user name,

password and port.


Chapter9. Tools

9.1 Backup Management

Click Tool -> Backup Management to pop up the Backup Management dialog.

The backup configuration allows you to back up record files of remote device or

centralized storage. Three backup methods are selectable: Local backup, CD/DVD

burning and upload to FTP.

Step1: Select cameras from the resource tree for backup.

Step2: Select file type and time range for search.

Step3: Click Search and all the matched files will be shown on the time line.

Step4: When holding the Ctrl button, you can move your mouse to drag the clips

or you can check the box to select all clips, and then select the directory

to save recording files. Finally, click to start backup.

You can pause downloading by clicking Pause and delete the download files by

clicking Delete. You can also configure download speed and maximum numbers of

concurrent backups by clicking Option.

Step5 (optional): Select the downloaded files, and then select the DVD/CD and click

Start to start burning files. You can select burn or not burn players with the files.


Step6 (optional): Switch to . Select the downloaded

files and click Upload files. Enter IP address, port, user name, password of the

server and the path to store. Click Start to upload files to the server.

9.2 Log Management

Click Tool -> Log Management to pop up the Log Management dialog. Here you can

see three tab pages: System log, Device Log.

To search System log:

Step1: Select a Log Type, its sub types, user, start time and end time.

Step2: Select an object from the resource tree at the left side.

Step3: Click to search logs.

The result will be displayed on a list. You can set how many records should be

displayed on one page, and navigate between different pages by using the

navigation bar.

You can click to display the statistics in histogram, line chart or pie

chart.

You also can click to export the logs to a local excel table.

To search Device Log:


Step1: Select a device from the resource tree at the left side.

Step2: Set the searching conditions.

Step3: Click to search logs.

9.3 Two-way Audio

Click Tool ->Two-way Audio to pop up the Two-way Audio dialog.

To talk with a device:

Step1: Select a device tab page. Click a device or click beside him to pop up

a Two-way Audio dialog.

Step2: Change the device in a dropdown list when necessary, and select a two-way

audio channel of that device.

Step3: Click button to start two-way audio.

To use broadcast function:

Step1: Click Device Broadcast button to pop up Device Broadcast dialog.

Step2: Tick the devices you need. Or just use Select all to select all the devices.

Step3: Click button to start broadcast.

9.4 People Counting

To use People Counting function, you need to finish the configuration on Hikvision

iVMS-6200 Intelligent Device first by using its own client software, and add it into

iVMS-5200 as a device first. For details, please refer to user manual of Hikvision

iVMS-6200 Intelligent Device and iVMS-5200 User Manual_Web Manager.

Click Tool -> People Counting to pop up the People Counting dialog. On top of the

dialog, you can choose how to display the analysis result. There are three options:

Line chart, Histogram and Report.

You also can choose the direction of the movement, and whether to refresh the

result if the end time of your searching time span is later than the current time.


On the left side of the dialog, you can choose the cameras you want to analyze. And

you can choose a time span that you want to analyze.

Day The result will be shown by every two hours in the day.

Week The result will be shown by each day in the week.

Month The result will be shown by each day in the month.

Year The result will be shown by each month.

After finish the above setup, you can click Search button to start analyze and view

the result. If you are viewing the result in report format, you are able to export the

result to an Excel file.

9.5 Video Player

Click Tool ->Video Player to run video player.

The default directory of video files is the saving path for manual recordings you have

configured in System Configuration. You can use the and buttons to

change the directory. The record files under the selected directory will be listed

underneath. You can use and to delete them from

the HDD.

To play a record file, just double click on a record file. Then, the toolbar at the

bottom will become enabled. Description of this tool bar is as below.

BUTTON DESCRIPTION BUTTON DESCRIPTION

Take snapshot

Adjust speed

Reverse play /

normal play

Pause / stop playing

Previous frame /

next frame

Play previous file /

next file

Voice control

You can double click on the video to view it in full window.


9.6 Soft Keyboard

Click Tool ->Soft Keyboard to show soft keyboard, as below:

When the PC is not connected with physical keyboard, you can use soft keyboard to

type the information.

NoticesContentsChapter1. Introduction1.1 iVMS-5200 Overall Description1.2 iVMS-5200 Client Description1.3 iVMS-5200 Video Wall Glossary

Chapter2. Environment RequirementChapter3. Running iVMS-5200 Client3.1 Login3.2 General Functions3.3 Multi-screen Viewing

Chapter4. Live View4.1 Live View Interface4.2 Viewing Camera4.3 Viewing Operation4.4 I/O Alarm Control4.5 PTZ control4.6 Alarm Management

Chapter5. Playback5.1 Playback Interface5.2 Normal Playback5.3 Segment Playback5.4 Event Playback5.5 Playback Control4.6 Download and Backup

Chapter6. E-Map6.1 E-map Navigation6.2 E-map Operation

Chapter7. Video Wall Client7.1 Decoding Resources Setup7.2 Manual Control, Jointing, Windowing and Scene Management7.3 Auto-switch Schedule7.4 Displaying Alarm Images on Video Wall7.5 Playback on Video Wall

Chapter8. System Configuration8.1 General Settings8.2 Local Settings8.3 Display Settings8.4 Group Settings8.5 Keyboard Settings

Chapter9. Tools9.1 Backup Management9.2 Log Management9.3 Two-way Audio9.4 People Counting9.5 Video Player9.6 Soft Keyboard

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