3.3.1 General Playback



Step1. Select General Playback as playback type.



Step2. Select Stream Type.

Primary Stream and Secondary Stream are available.



Step3. Select channel.

Select channels you want to do playback. User can click to select maximum channel for playback, 9 channels for Mini (PoE) NVR Series while 16 channels for other NVR. Layout of playback will be automatically adjusted according to the amount of the selected channels.



Step4. Select date.

The day with blue letters means that there are record files.



Video Playback Tool Bar Description



Every channel got their own file bar, and there is only one file bar matching with the selected channel. The tool bar can display multiple types record. It shows that in this record period what kind of event has happened. The symbolic meaning of each color is:

Blue—General

Red --- Event

Take this bar above as an example, it means that there are continuous recording and event recording in this period.

It is shown a thumbnail of what occurs at that given moment in the recorded video when you hover your mouse over the progress bar.You can Scroll the mouse wheel to get forward or backward frame of the video when you pause the video.



Table 1. Description of the buttons
Icons

Descriptions

 Icons

Descriptions

Smart Search

Digital zoom

Snapshot

Audio on

Audio off

Speed down

Speed up

Step reverse

Step forward

Rewind

Play

Stop

Pause

Timeline cutting

Lock video file

Quick tag

Custom tag

File Management

Zoom in time bar

Zoom out time bar

Best Decoding Performance

Smart Play Speed

Speed up/down: You can adjust the speed even when playback is paused.

Lock Video: Once the video is locked, the whole file where the video located won’t be overwritten. The NVRs support the display of locked icon on the playback bar so that the corresponding files in the playback page can be identified directly. You can also change the lock status in Retrieve interface.

Tag Video: Quick Tag and Custom Tag are available for tag operation in Playback interface. The NVRs support the display of tagged icon on the playback bar so that the corresponding files in the playback page can be identified directly. You can backup video via tag in Retrieve interface or do tag playback in Playback interface.

Best Decoding Performance: This function is supported for NVR 8000 Series, by which the decoding resources of the other screen can be used for playback when the decoding performance is insufficient. Here are some notes for using this feature below.

Note:
  1. This button can be available only when HDMI2/VGA2 of NVR is enabled.
  2. This button only exists in General Playback, Event Playback and Tag Playback.
  3. Another screen will be black once this function is enabled.
  4. The status of this option is temporary. Once you exit the playback interface, this function will automatically turn off. The other screen will restore preview, and the decoding resources of the two screens will be reassigned.

Smart Play Speed:You can configure Play Speed for General Video and Event Video and choose to skip General Video according to your preference.



Note: Only NVR firmware version xx.9.0.9 or above supports Smart Play Speed.

Smart Search: NVR can search out all relevant motion events and play all the event recording files of the selected area. Here are the steps of how to use the function.

(1) Go to Playback interface, select a channel to playback.

(2) Click to enable Smart Search.

(3) Draw an area in the frame and NVR would play the video files after searching out all motion events of the area.



Note:
  1. Only NVR firmware version xx.9.0.10 or above supports Smart Search
  2. Make sure your Camera version is xx.7.0.76 or above.
  3. Smart Search and Smart Play Speed can not be used together.
  4. Smart Search is available only when playing in a single channel.

Fisheye Mode: Click to enter Fisheye Mode, which will display full screen fisheye channel. Click or any other icons in this page to enter NVR-side Dewarping. Then you can set installation modes and display modes for the camera on the Fisheye tool bar. After finished, click to end Dewarping.

Note:
  1. NVR-side Dewarping is available for all devices including third-party devices.
  2. The NVR Only supports one channel Dewarping.


Installation Mode: Ceiling Mount/ Wall Mount/ Table Mount

Display Mode: 1O/1P/2P/4R/1O3R/1P3R