Samsung SVR-1670 manual Setting Up the Camera Display, About Multichannel Screen Display

Chapter 9. Camera and Monitor Display Setup

This chapter provides information about setting up the camera and monitor displays, and the screen layout, sequencing and other features available when viewing video images from cameras connected to the DVR.

The information is presented in these sections :

▶9. 1 Setting Up the Camera Display

▶9. 2 About Multichannel Screen Display

▶9. 3 Setting Up the Monitor Display

▶9. 4 Using Auto Sequencing

▶9. 5 Configuring Multi Display Layouts

9.1 Setting Up the Camera Display

You configure each camera connected to the unit using the Channel Display submenu. You can adjust Title, Status, Color, AGC, Brightness or Contrast for each of the cameras.

Use only one type of camera—either NTSC or PAL—on the DVR.

	Figure 9.1.1 Channel Display submenu on the Display Setup Menu
Option	Description
Channel Number	Assign the channel to a camera.
Title	Give a name to the camera for that channel. (This setting opens the On screen
	keyboard in which you can enter what you want to call the camera)

Status	Enable or disable a camera. To increase recording or network monitoring speed, be
	sure to disable unused channels.
Color	Select Color or B/W.
AGC (Auto Gain	Set the automatic input range of video signals from a camera.
Control)
Brightness and	Adjust the brightness and contrast of a video.
Contrast

9. 2 About Multichannel Screen Display

You can change your screen display from a single channel to various configurations on multiple channels on a split screen, up to all 16 channels on a split screen. (The default setting is 16 channels.)

You view multiple channels in various configurations on a split screen. For some of these, the channels are standard. For others, you set up which channels you want to appear.

4A — Channels 1, 2, 3 and 4

4B — Channels 5, 6, 7 and 8

4C — Channels 9, 10, 11 and 12

4D — Channels 13, 14, 15 and 16

4E — Any four channels you specify 9A — Channels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

9B — Any nine channels you specify

10A — Any 10 channels you specify

Changing Screen Display

Shifting from multichannel to single channel

There are two ways to shift a multichannel display to single screen display of one channel :

∙On the front panel, press the channel button. For example, press the “3” to view channel 3 in single-screen display.

∙Hover the mouse cursor over the Channel image on the screen, and then left-click the mouse.

∙Place your mouse cursor on the channel’s image on screen, and left-click.

To return to split screen display, press the MULTI button or left-click the mouse.

Using the MULTI button on the front panel

On the front panel, press the MULTI button. Each time you press the button, the screen displays a

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