
ALIEN616 User’s Manual V2.0.5
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4. Record Settings
There are multiple ways to setup your DVR for recording. They include setting up a
recording schedule, triggering a recording by motion detection and/or a sensor alarm, and
manually starting the recording. Only use the manual record for emergency recording.
4.1 Initialising Record Settings
Before setting your DVR up for recording, certain settings should be configured first. The
steps to configuring these settings are:
1. If you have not initialised a HDD either through the Setup Wizard or
through HDD management, you must do so before proceeding.
2. Navigate to Menu > Setting > Record. You will be taken to the Record
Settings menu, shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. General Record Settings
3. Select the camera you would to configure the settings for.
4. Configure settings for:
• Encoding Parameters: Select the encoding parameters, either Normal or
Event.
• Stream Type: Type of stream to record, either video or video & audio.
• Resolution: Select the resolution of the recording. The options may
include 4CIF, DCIF, 2CIF, CIF and QCIF dependent on model purchased.
• Bit Rate Type:
Select either Variable or Constant bit rate.
• Video Quality: Select the quality to record cameras at.
• Frame Rate: Select recordings frame rate.
• Max Bit Rate: Select or define custom maximum bit rate for recordings.
5. Click the Set button under More Settings. This will bring up another menu
with more advance recording options, as shown in Figure 2.
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