Using IP surveillance Software (continued)

Playback Program (continued)

Since the program will record the previous start and end time in Time Period and Events Preview mode. Any time you want to change the period selector to see another period, you must change the Playback Method Selector to the mode you want to use first. Otherwise, the Period Selector will back to the previous data when you change the Playback Method Selector.

Alert Area Selector

In the Preview Mode, the Playback program only can show the total events information of one alert window each time. If you want to see the events of the other two alert area windows, you must change the alert area selector to other numbers. In the normal display mode, the alert window that the alert area selector indicates will be highlighted with red rectangle if you checked that window in the settings dialog. The alert area selector will be changed to alert window zero, when you change the location selector to another one.

Play Control

Speed Indicator

Pause

PlayForward

Stop

For the play control, a jog dial is used to provide the easiest way to control the displaying video sequence. Except the Play button, all other buttons can control the displaying frame in the normal display mode and the selected displaying frame in the preview mode.

Play

The Play button is an intelligent play interface. The function of this button can vary to fit with different circumstance. In the normal display mode, click on the Play button can restart the displaying video sequence. When in the preview mode, if you don’t change the data of period selector, clicking on this button only restarts the selected displaying frame. If the data of the period selector has been changed, clicking on the Play button will restart all frames to display the first nine events in the new period.

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D-Link DCS-5300 manual Play Control, Alert Area Selector

DCS-5300 specifications

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