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

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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

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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.

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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
Windowing

Those screens/monitors that are connected to show one camera

generates a jointed window.
The action that opens a new window on a screen/monitor is called
windowing.

This

function

depends

on

decoding

resource

hardware.

Floating
Window
Layout

Floating window is the output of windowing. A floating window

can be moved within a jointed window.
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
Single Scene
Auto-Switch
Multi-Scene
Auto-Switch

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

one screen/monitor or multiple screens/monitors in cycle.
It is an auto-switch schedule mode on which the layout is not
change.
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.

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Chapter2. Environment Requirement

Hardware+Software Requirement
The general requirement for the hardware is as below, which can satisfy most
requirements.
CPU: Intel Xeon E5502 or above
Memory: 4G DDR3

For Web Manager

and Client

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
CPU

Display

CAMERA
Memory

4CIF@

720P@

UXGA@

1080P@6

2Mbps

3Mbps

4Mbps

Mbps

4G

60

32

12

10

4G

55

29

12

4G

32

18

4G

40

24

10

4G

29

13

Card
Intel Core

Geforce

i7 950

GTX 260

Intel Core i7

Geforce

920

GTX 260

Intel Core

Geforce

i5 750

GTX 460

AMD

Geforce

Phenom

GT 220

X6 1090T
AMD

Geforce

Phenom

9800GT

X4 955

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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.

View

Exit

Exit the software.

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

Show aux screen if the PC has multiple display

view

interfaces.

Alarm Information

Show Alarm Message button on the Bottom.

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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.

Tools

Help

Display All Panels

Show all panel in Live View interface.

Full Screen

Display live video in full screen.

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.

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 1 st
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.

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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.

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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

Stop all

DESCRIPTION
Capture all

Start/Stop

all

manual

Pause/resume

recording

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:

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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:

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TOOLBAR BUTTON
/

CONTENT MENU

ACTION

Start manual recording /

Start manual recording / Stop

Stop manual recording.

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

Enter / Exit digital zoom mode

zoom
Instant Playback / Stop
/

Start / Stop instant playback

instant playback

Not available on

Switch to sub stream /

Switch to sub stream / main

tool bar

Switch to main stream

stream

Not available on

Manual Alarm

Trigger I/O output in Manual

tool bar
Not available on

Alarm dialog
Playback

Start playback of this camera

Close

Stop viewing this camera

tool bar

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.
TOOLBAR BUTTON

CONTENT MENU

ACTION

Snapshot

Take a snapshot

Turn on audio / Mute

Turn on / off audio

Two-way audio

Start / Stop two-way audio

Stop instant playback

Stop instant playback

Save

Save the instant video from

instant

playback

video

buffer to HDD.

Not available on content

Pause / Restart playing

menu
Not available on content

View previous frame

menu
Not available on content

View next frame

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menu
Not available on content

Display current time and total

menu

time

duration

in

normal

playback mode.
Not available on content

Display current frame number

menu

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

Directional

Turn on/off light

control. Click
to
start/stop

ACTION

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auto-scan.
Zoom in and

Start/Stop wiper

zoom out
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
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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.

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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
immediately.

button to arm the alarms

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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:

TOOLBAR BUTTON

CONTENT MENU

ACTION

Play

Start playback

Close

Stop playback and release the

window.

Turn on audio / Turn off

/

Turn on / off audio

audio
Digital Zoom / Exit digital
/

zoom
Snapshot

Enter / Exit digital zoom mode

Start

Take a snapshot

clipping

Stop

Start / Stop making a video

clipping

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

or

button at
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

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Step8: You can use

Or click

to stop all the decoding.

to switch to another scene.

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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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
Login
Settings

ITEM
Auto-start
Auto-login

DESCRIPTION
Automatically start the client when the OS boot up.
Automatically login after the client start with the last login
account or not.
It decides whether to drop B-frames when decoding video

Play

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

Performance

the B-frames. This option effect only live viewing. The local
record files will have all the frames.
It decides the size of buffer for live viewing. Minimum delay

Decoding
Performance
Play

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.

Settings
Pre-decoding
Buffer
Post-decoding
Buffer
Synchro Time
Asynchro
Time

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.
It decides how many frames (10~50Frame) of video after you
stop manual recording could be saved.
It refers to the time-out duration (5~30s) to locate a video time
stamp in synchronize playback mode.
It refers to the time-out duration (3~30s) to locate a video time
stamp in asynchronous playback mode.
Tick this box to enable audio warning function. If an

Audible

alarm has been configured to trigger Client Sound Alarm,

Warning

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

choose one audio source from the following options.

Alarm
Settings

Voice Engine
Buzzer Alarm
Local Audio

Use Voice Engine as the voice source. The OS must support the
Voice Engine.
Use the buzzer on the motherboard as the voice source.
Use a local audio file as the voice source. The file is selectable.

File
Repeat Sound

Play sound alarm in a loop or not.

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Alarm
Other
Settings

Auto-lock
Display

Lock the software automatically or not if no operation in a

defined period of time.
Display offline cameras with different icons or not.

Device Status

8.2 Local Settings

Description of options in General Settings page.
MENU

ITEM
Saving

DESCRIPTION
Set the snapshot format to be BMP or JPEG.

Format
Saving Path
Capture
Settings

Set the directory for keeping snapshots.

Save

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

Snapshot

the software will keep the snapshots temporarily, and you

Manually

need to decide whether to save or print the snapshots.

Continuous
Snapshot
File Size
Local

Saving Path

Recording

Set length

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.
It decides the max file size when recording locally.
Set the directory for keeping manual record files.
It decides the max video length of the record files.

limitation
Clip

File Size

Settings

Saving Path
Record

Two-way

two-way

Audio

audio
Saving Path
Control Mode

It decides the max file size when download video clips.

Set the directory for keeping downloaded video clips.
It decides whether to record two-way audio content to a file or
not.
Set the directory for keeping two-way audio file.
It decides how to control the size of instant playback file, by
buffer size or by video length.
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

Instant
Playback

of video stream, less video length can support.

Value

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.

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8.3 Display Settings

Description of options in General Settings page.
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
again, or delete unnecessary cameras by using
sequence of the cameras by using

or

button

button, or change the

.

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
and used by other users.
To use other users shared group:

button. Shared group can be seen

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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.

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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.

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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 search Device Log:

to export the logs to a local excel table.

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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.

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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 /

Pause / stop playing

normal play
Previous frame /

Play

next frame

next file

Voice control

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

previous

file

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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.