observer user training

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Copyright 2011 by Volicon, Inc.Do Not Copy or Distribute

All Rights Reserved

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Volicon, Inc.Burlington , [email protected]: +1-781-221-7400


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INTRODUCTION

SYSTEMARCHITECTURE

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Turnkey Digital video archiving and streaming solutionoffering 24/7 video Monitoring and Logging: Search,Retrieve, View, Analyze, Store and Export content anytimeanywhere in the world


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GETTINGSTARTED

PC CLIENTMINIMUMREQUIREMENTS

To access the Observer from a client machine you will need:

Windows 7, 64 bit OS 3.5GB RAM or above

Sound card

Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 8 browser

Windows Media Player 11 or greater installed Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or equivalent processor recommended

Minimum NVIDIA or ATI video adapter

User with local administrative privileges to install signed ActiveX control

Minimum 10 Mbps network connection bandwidth: 1.2-1.5 times the sum of viewed stream's

bandwidth, i.e., to display two 512 Kbps streams smoothly, 1.2-1.5 Mbps of bandwidth is

needed

URL or IP address to the Web server placed in the browser Trusted Sites zone

Silverlight support if used for clients other than IE

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Logging In

Start Internet Explorer

Enter Observer server URL

At first time access from a client PC

machine, you will be presented with a

warning strip towards the top of the

screen

Accept and proceed

Install Volicon Player accepting all

defaults (Check if prompts hidden

behind other forms to continue

install)

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DOWNLOADVOLICONMEDIAPLAYER

Specify the first page after login (Home page is the default)

Clips

Search

User Preferences

(Maintenance) Settings

After Media Player has been successfully installed, enter

Username

Password

Change default values for security

see Preferences in the manual

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Home Page - Favorites

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Select favorite channels::

1. Access: HomeFavorites icon

2. Check Streams of Interest

3. Add to Favorites

4. Remove from Favorites

1. Favorites

3. Add to Favorites

2. Check Streams of Interest

4. Remove from Favorites


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Home Page

Main monitoring interface - View live broadcasts

Select various players - In Dashboard

View in Player Display Area

Left MenuFor different functions

Press button for live video

Player Display Area

Control-bar

LeftMenu

Dashboard

Encoder/streams

Live

Player stream-bar


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Access additional Observer functions :

Home

Clip

Bookmarks list

Fault clips

Statistics

Search

Programs

Producer, CMM (optional modules)

Central Config Encoders

Software upgrade

Maintenance

Settings

User Management

Event Viewer

Alerts

User Preferences

Note: Capabilities may be restricted to some user groups

Left Menu


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Control-bar

This DVD type bar controls the active video channel display

1. Rewind

2. Reverse play

3. Slow reverse

4. Step back

5. Pause

6. Step forward

7. Slow play

8. Play

9. Fast forward

Slow play /reverse work at the normal speed

Multiple clicks on Rewind and Fast-forward accelerate these operations

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Control-bar

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Navigate to Start-time click , button changes to

Click at end-sectionA dialog will appear

o Save Clip in Bookmarks or Export to PC

Mute/un-mute adjust audio volume using the Volumeslide bar icons

Seek-bar scale

Full screen

Split full-screen

Picture-in-picture

Ratings

Play Live


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Stream-bar and Seek-bar

Allows quick review of the video history

Seek-bar length one hour - configurable in Preferences

Date/Time is displayed by tooltip when cursor hovering over it

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Stream-bar

Seek-bar

Popup Menu; CC Enable; Synch to Me Date Time Selector Input Stream Name Close Player

Popup menu Right Click Display or click this icon

CC Display Enable/Disables Closed Captions

Sync to me Sync all players to the active player


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DISPLAY

METADATA

Off - Disable caption and subtitles

First language subtitles

Second language subtitles

XDS - Items as time of day, captions, program information

Video and audio (parameters)

Audio loudnessStandardized audio measurements

AFD (display)

Select from available audio tracks:

o Stereo Mono Dolby audio configuration

o Configurable with Audio Profile Manager

CAPTIONSANDLANGUAGE

AUDIOTRACKS

Popup Menu

Right click on a player to display the popup menu

LOUDNESSMETER

left / right

ALIGNMETADATA

Wide screen display mode

WIDESCREEN


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STATUSLINE- AL, SS ANDBS

Video and Audio measurements recorded for

every channel, therefore can be examined

through playback at a later time

BS - BLACKSCREENAMOUNT

Percentage of black in the display

SS - STATICSCREEN

Percentage of static scenery in the display

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Black Screen Audio Level

AL - AUDIOLEVEL

Audio level of the received signal measured in dB. The default for Low Audio is -40 dB


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Bookmarks

Select from the Left menu

Clips Bookmarks to access Clip List or

Clips Fault Clips

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Edit Clips Click on one of the Edit icons


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FAULTCLIPS

Faults in media

Stored in Clips for extended periods

Searchfor a Clip Name or Description

Optional filtering

Time range, Video, Audio, CC

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Export Data - Report Fault Clips in ASCII

Fault clips button generates Text or CSV reportprevious slide

System will prompt for a folder on your PC to download report

Excel spreadsheet will display clip parameters in separate columns:

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Export Clips from Video

Clip live or recorded video with Mark Start / Mark End

Click Export Video or Closed Captions icons

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Bookmarks, Fault clips Double click on a clip

Click on the ExportIcon to export

Export Existing Clips


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Export Video

Provide File name, typedirectoryon PC client

Press the button

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Press or buttons

Optionally select Advanced Options

ExportWith Advanced Options


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Closed Captions (burned into exported video)

Timestamp(burned into exported video)

Banner (burned into exported video)

Resolution (selection) Target bitrate (selection)

Quality(selection)

Maximum time accuracy for frame accurate export

Advanced Options


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Email alerts, Alert on:

Video

Audio

CC/TT

Edit email

Delete email

Maintenance Alerts


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Revision Change History

112211 6.0 release, display metadata, popup menu, formatting

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Documents

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ati video adapter user

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login home page

browser windows media

proceedinstall volicon

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