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Chapter 3 Live View
3.1 Live View Introduction
Live view shows you the video image getting from each camera in real time. The NVR automatically enters
Live View mode when powered on. It is also at the very top of the menu hierarchy, thus pressing the ESC
many times (depending on which menu you’re on) brings you to the Live View mode.
Live View Icons
In the live view mode, there are icons at the upper-right of the screen for each channel, showing the
status of the record and alarm in the channel, so that you can know whether the channel is recorded, or
whether there are alarms occur as soon as possible.
Table 3-1 Description of Live View Icons
Icons Description
Alarm (video loss, video tampering, motion detection, VCA, and sensor alarm)
Record (manual record, schedule record, motion detection, VCA, and alarm triggered record)
Alarm and Record
Event/Exception (motion detection, VCA, sensor alarm, or exception information appears at the lower-left
corner of the screen; refer to
Setting Alarm Response Actions
for details)
3.2 Operations in Live View Mode
In live view mode, there are many functions provided. The functions are listed below.
• S
ingle Screen: Shows only one screen on the monitor
• Multi-Screen: Shows multiple screens on the monitor simultaneously
• Auto-Switch: Screen auto switches to the next one. You must set the dwell time for each screen on
the configuration menu before enabling the auto-switch at Menu > Configuration > Live View > Dwell
Time.
• Start Recording: Continuous record and motion detection record
• Output Mode: Set the output mode to Standard, Bright, Gentle, or Vivid.
• Add IP Camera: Shortcut to the IP camera management interface
• Playback: Play back the recorded videos for current day
• Aux Monitor: NVR checks the connection of the output interfaces to define the main and auxiliary
output interfaces. The priority level for the main and aux output is HDMI > VGA.
When both HDMI and VGA are connected, HDMI is used as main output and VGA is used as the aux
output.
When the aux output is enabled, the main output cannot perform any operation, and you can perform
some basic operations in live view mode for the Aux output.
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