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Review Video

Menu Location: File

Shows you a selection  of video captured files to choose to open. Files have *.AVI extensions.  Then it launches a Media Player, to play a sequence of captured frames. This constitutes the review process. Media Player can start and stop the video clip on any frame needed.

Captured video files are stored in directory c:\Monitor\Captured on your computer.

The file name, is named to show the date and time when captured file was created. Use this name to determine when captured video was recorded, or the time when the motion occurred. Example of  a captured video file is, D041801T203142CAM000.avi. D is for date, 04-18-01, T is for time 20:31:42,  .avi is for an audio visual file.

Example:

D101306T091907CAM000.avi is video for camera number 0.
D101306T091907CAM001.avi is video for camera number 1.
D101306T091907AUDIO.avi is audio recording file.
D101306T091907CAMALL.avi is video recorded for all cameras into one file.

If Media Player does not start, go to menu Settings, Program Parameters, Path to Media Player, and enter the correct directory path to your media player, then save the configuration. Use Windows Explorer to find a file like mplayer2.exe, get the correct path name to enter.

Note: You can also play the captured video file by double clicking on the file name using Windows Explorer, from the Start menu.

Or start Windows Media Player itself, and use it to open the video files in  directory c:\Monitor\Captured on your computer. To save video captured files to another location or hard drive you can use the Copy Video Files feature.

While recording currently opened video files are not available for review. Use Close Video Files, to close currently opened video files so they then become available for review.