5.12 Recording Setup
In main menu, there is an icon named “Recording”. You can enter recording
menu as follows:
Fig. 5.21 Recording channel configuration
“Recording” menu description:
If HDD Full: There are two options: “Overwrite” and “Stop recording”. If you
select “Overwrite” option, when all HDDs in DVR are full, DVR will overwrite the
earliest recorded files and continue recording. If you select “Stop recording” option,
when all HDDs are all full, DVR will handle it as “Hard Disk Full” exception, please
refer to chapter 5.17 for exception menu.
Select Camera: Here all channels are listed. You can use [↑] [↓] keys to select
one.
Stream Type: There are two options, one is “Audio&Video” stream and the
other is “Video” stream only. If you want to record video and audio, please select
“Audio&Video” option, otherwise you can select “Video” option to record only video.
For DS-8000HSI DVR, there is only one “Video” option.
Note: If you change this option, please reboot DVR to make parameter
become effective.
Resolution: The higher resolution is, the clearer the image is. The resolution
options from low to high are: QCIF, CIF
Note: If you change this resolution option, please reboot DVR to make it
become effective.
Bit rate: You can select bit rate size for fixed bit rate type. It is the same as