User Manual

NP Distributed video wall system is a multi-signal processing device designed for distributed large-screen display system.

Control Software for NP Pro Video Wall System - User Manual

Manual Statement

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Preface

The control software mainly introduces the client’s software characteristics of video wall controller, configuration and basic operation of the user, please read this manual carefully before using the video wall controller.

Graphical Interface Format Conventions

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Significance

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[ ] Indicates the window name, menu name, datasheet, for example, popup window.

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[]indicates the button name, for example click button.

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This icon indicates the necessary supplement and description of the instruction of the operation.

Chapter 1 Software Introduction

1.1 Software Overview

The control software is our self-developed control software for the video wall display system, it is exclusively used for the management of video wall systems, windowing, scene invoking, etc. with all the operations carried out on the software and control interface. This software is fitted into the user’s management host so that the user can use it conveniently.

The operation interface of the control software is friendly and intuitive, with functional interfaces equally distributed and controllable conveniently. This software improves the overall control and management ability of the user to the video wall system.

1.2 Main Features

Large screen configuration: TV wall layout, decoder management, mapping, server settings, user management
Large screen control: local device management, video source management, video wall window management, video on the wall
Live preview: live preview video
Video playback: local video playback and playback control
Electronic map: monitor video on the electronic map
Alarm setting: set alarm pop-up window, alarm linkage
Resource Management: You can upload videos and pictures

Chapter 2 Installation Instructions

2.1 Installation Environment of Software

Central Processing Unit

Intel Pentium Core 2.6GHz above

Memory

Minimum configuration: 4G above or more

Operating System

Win7, Win8, Win10, etc. Support 32 or 64 bits operate, Window system

Hard Disk

100MB above, reserved

Disk Drive

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

Network Requirement

Assuring a good and smooth environment

Communication Environment

Having a network and serial communication

Notice: The installation environment of software may not be completely consistent with the aforementioned required environments, and software will be installed and used according to the existing equipment.

2.2 Installation Steps of Software

Open packing box of product and find out the optical disk for software installation, open the folder for control software in this disk and click the“Spectacular” file.

Notice: This software is for free installation, without a cumbersome installation process, click to login directly.

The integrated video management system is a stand-alone system that can run independently and implement large-screen control, real-time preview and other functions. It can also be used with the server configuration tool (Qvideo.exe), video surveillance management software (Manager.exe), and desktop live broadcast software (SrcStreamer.exe) to achieve more functions, as shown below:

Qvideo.exe

1. Search server IP address 2. Modify the server IP address 3. Restart the server remotely 4. Remotely shut down the server 5. Remote upgrade server 6. Backup/restore database 7. Server activation 8. Change the video wall background image 9. Obtain server system information 10. Synchronize server system time 11. One-click restore server settings 12. Set the server scheduled restart time

SrcStreamer.exe

SrcStream can encode the screen information of the client computer into an IP stream, and the integrated video management system can input the IP stream decoding.

2.3.1 Qvideo

Qvideo.exe software can implement search servers, modify server IP and other functions.

Search server IP address

Running Qvideo.exe will bring up the following interface, click the "Reflush" button, the server will be listed on the left.

Modify the server IP address

Click on the server list on the left and the IP address/subnet mask and gateway will appear on the right. After entering the new IP address, mask, and gateway on the right, click “Save Netinfo”. After about 5 seconds, search again to find that the IP address has been changed to a new IP.

Notice: The IP address and gateway should be on the same network segment. Otherwise, the server IP may not be searched.

Remotely restart/shut down the server

Click on the server list on the left and click "Reboot" or "Shutdown". After confirming, you can restart the server or shut down the server. After selecting multiple servers, you can restart/close multiple servers at the same time.

Synchronize server system time

Synchronize the server system time to synchronize the local computer time to the remote server. Click the “Synchronize Time” button to set the server time to match the computer time.

One-click restore server settings

Check multiple servers to restore multiple servers at the same time. Click the “One Click Recovery” button to restore the server one key. The restored server will be restored to the factory settings except the IP address.

2.3.2 Capture PC Software

“SrcStreamer” is a web capture software. Open the " SrcStreamer " software, as shown above.

Step 1 Select “Boot from boot” Step 2 Click "Start"

2.3.3 Video wall control software

Double click “Spectacular.exe” run the software, pop-up [login] interface, as shown below:

Enter the correct IP address, port number, username, password → "login".

Notice: (The default username and password are both "admin", which can be modified in the configuration; the login port is 40000, which cannot be modified)

Chapter 3 Introduction to Interface of Software

3.1 Main Interface of Control Software

Chapter 4 Initialization Setting

4.1 Display Setting

Click "Display Settings" to enter the correct username/password(admin/admin) and click "OK" to enter the screen settings.

4.1.1 Setting stitching layout

As shown below:

Notice: Calling the preset layout when there are already screens and mappings will cause the previously configured screens and mappings to be cleared.

4.1.2 Irregular layout

In some projects, the installation of large screens often does not meet the requirements of the regular video wall layout, or the installation of some of the monitors is irregular. For such applications, users need to manually arrange the video wall for the integrated video. The management system presents a most intuitive layout of the TV wall installation location and size. For irregular TV wall layouts, the system supports the following operations.

Add screen

User Click the Add screen button above the tool, the system enters the add screen state. In this state, the user can click the left mouse button at the appropriate position on the backdrop, then re-click the mouse to outline a suitable size. The Rectangular area then releases the left mouse button, and the system will generate a rectangular area on the backdrop that represents the actual screen. The added screen can be re-adjusted by the mouse for position and size.

Screen modification

The user can select the screen to be modified by using the left mouse button and then can perform the mouse in the center of the screen. Drag with the left button to change the position of the screen. In addition, the user can also place the mouse on the edge of the screen. At this time, the shape of the mouse will change to the size of the size. At this time, the user can change the size of the screen by dragging with the left mouse button.

Screen position relationship adjustment

The user needs to adjust the relative size and position relationship between multiple screens, the user can select it through the mouse frame. Multiple screens, or by pressing the Ctrl button on the keyboard and clicking the left mouse button to select multiple screens. The user can then perform position alignment, size alignment, normalized layout, and more.

Notice: Normalized layout: It means that the system will automatically generate the M×N rule layout of the selected screen as much as possible. If the normalized layout is not the layout mode that the user wants, the user can fine-tune and then normalize the layout again until it meet user expectations.

Delete screen

After the user can select the screen to be deleted, delete the selected screen by using the delete screen option in the right mouse button menu.

Notice: Once the screen is deleted, the connection mapping information associated with this screen will also be automatically deleted.

4.1.3 Management decoder

The integrated video management system supports the stack management of the decoder, and can simultaneously manage multiple decoder devices of the same level. Each decoder device has its own video output interface, and all video output interfaces of all decoders can be in the system. Unified management for easy construction of a small to very large-scale video management system.

Click the Add Decoder button in the toolbar to bring up the dialog box. Click “Search” to list the searched decoders and double click to add the decoder.

4.1.5 Add decoder

After searching for the decoder, double-click on the decoder list, or click the Add Decoder button in the Tools check box to add the Add Decoder Encoder and insert it into the information before adding the decoder. 1. Decoder name: user-defined name for subsequent identification 2. Decoder address: IP address of the decoder 3. Decoder port: default is 30000

When the above information is valid and the decoder network is online, the adding operation will succeed. The system will automatically obtain the video output interface information of the decoder and present it in the decoder device list on the left side. Expand the decoder device and you will see All video output interface information under this decoder.

Notice: When adding a decoder, please make sure that the decoder is online and the corresponding video interface is connected to the big screen to ensure that the system can correctly obtain the output interface information of the decoder and correctly establish the mapping relationship.

4.1.6 Modify decoder

Support to modify the decoder name

4.1.7 Delete decoder

On the decoder device node that needs to be deleted, click the right mouse button and select the Delete Decoder option. Click the left mouse button to pop up the confirmation to delete the decoder prompt box. After clicking OK, the decoder will be deleted.

Notice: When the decoder is deleted, all screen mapping information associated with this decoder is also deleted.

4.1.8 Reset decoder

The user can reset the decoder status in some special state. After reset, the decoding will return to the initial state. This function can solve some system errors.

The initial state means: 1. Each output of the decoder is a split-screen state 2. No video source is decoded in each window 3. There are no stitching windows 4. There is no roaming window.

4.1.9 Reboot decoder

As shown in the figure above, the user can right-click on the device of the specified decoder, select the Restart Decoder option, and the decoder will restart.

4.2 Mapping relations

The mapping relationship between the decoder video output interface and the screen refers to the actual connection relationship between the video output interface of the decoder device and the screen on the backdrop.

4.3 Connection relationship

By clicking the right mouse button on each decoder and selecting the screen position test, at this time, the number will be displayed on all screens connected to this decoder. The meaning of this number is that this screen is specifically connected to the decoder. On which video output interface, the user should record the decoder name corresponding to each screen and the video output interface number of the decoder.

4.3.1 Configuration connection

Through the method in the previous level, the user already knows the connection relationship between the decoder video output interface and the screen, and the following only needs a simple operation to complete the configuration:

First, select the decoder output interface to be configured in the decoder device list.
Press the left mouse button and drag and drop it into the corresponding screen in the corresponding screen layout.
Repeat the above two steps in sequence for all output interfaces in the decoder device list.
Click Save Settings

After the save is successful, the connection relationship between the video output interface of the decoder and the screen is completed. Thereafter, the system maps all operations on the screen in the screen layout to its corresponding decoder video output interface.

4.4 Server settings

In the server settings, you can modify the server's IP and DNS information, or you can shut down the server or restart the server. (IP address can also be set by Qvideo.exe software. When setting IP information, please note that the IP address needs to be in the same network segment as the gateway, otherwise the setting will be unsuccessful.) As shown in the figure below.

4.5 Reset

Click the “Restore” button, a confirmation dialog will pop up. If “yes” is selected, the settings related to the screen control system can be restored to the factory default state. As shown below. The factory settings will change the following:

All screens will reboot and the screen output status will be reset.
All user information is cleared except admin (password is restored to factory settings).
Keep the local video source and device information under the Large Screen Control page.
Keep the local IP address.

Notice: If you want to restore the local video source information and device information under "Large Screen Control" to the factory settings, you can select "One-Click Restore" in Qvideo.exe. For the operation of Qvideo.exe, see "Introduction to Associated Software" in this document. chapter.

4.6 User Management

◆ The system default user is admin administrator user ◆ The system only has one admin administrator user by default. ◆ The system can add multiple ordinary users ◆ Only administrator users can enter the configuration console

4.6.1 Add/modify/delete users

Click the "User Management" button in the toolbar "Large Screen Configuration" to enter the user management interface as shown below.

Add User

User Modify

Delete user

Password Modify

4.7 Display ctrl

The core function of the integrated video management system is to deliver different video sources to a certain area of the video wall in the way that users expect. There is a virtual video wall, and your operations on the virtual video wall are transferred to the video wall.

4.8 Device

Video sources are divided into normal video sources and temporary video sources: 1. Ordinary video source refers to a video source that continuously provides video content information, such as cameras, DVR/NVR, desktop, and CVR video sources. 2. Temporary video source refers to a video source that is valid only for a period of time, such as video file broadcast, with start and end time.

Local device management（IPC，DVR/NVR）

The integrated video management system has its own local device management system. The devices managed by the local device management system include IPC (network camera), RTSP server, DVR/NVR, PC desktop, etc. In the main interface, click the “Device” icon.

Since the number of devices such as IPC in a general system is large, it is often necessary to perform hierarchical device management. Therefore, in the integrated video management system, the user can configure a device directory node of level 16 so that the user can classify and classify the video source device.

4.8.1 Add Node

Select the node and click "Add Node" to add a node. The added node is the child of the selected node. (Support for up to 16 levels of nodes)

4.8.2 Modify Node

Select the node and click "Modify Node" to modify the node.

4.8.3 Remove Node

Select the node and click “Remove Node” to delete the node

Notice: A node with child nodes cannot be deleted. To delete such a node, delete the child node below it.

Local device management

The local device belongs to the local device directory. After the device directory is selected, the devices in the directory can be managed accordingly. These operations include:

4.8.4 Search Device

You can search all devices and search for devices that are not joined to the system. As shown below:

4.8.5 Add Device

You can double-click the device in the list of searched devices, or you can directly add devices by clicking “Add Device”.

Notice: For multi-channel devices such as DVR/NVR, you need to fill in the total number of channels of this device. Each channel of such devices will be managed as a separate sub-device. For ordinary cameras, RTSP, desktop, etc., the number of channels should be Is 1.

4.8.6 Add Capture PC

When the SrcStream software selects “DesktopL”, the manufacturer adding the device selects “DesktopL”. When the SrcStream software selects “DesktopH”, the manufacturer adding the device selects “TCP Stream”, the ports are all 56789, the IP address is the address of the client computer, and the username and password are not modified by default.

4.8.7 Modify Device

Select the device you want to modify and click "Modify Device" to modify the device information.

Notice: After the device is added, not all information can be modified. If the user needs to modify other device information, the device can only be deleted and added again.

4.8.8 Remove Device

Select the device you want to delete and click "Remove Device" to delete the device.

Notice: After the device is deleted, he will no longer appear in the polling.

4.9 Video source management

The integrated video management system supports access to complex devices such as CVR video sources. This device is characterized by its own complete device management system, so the device itself is a separate device directory tree. And can provide unified video information of all devices in its device directory number.

4.9.1 Search source

Click "search" to search for the video source in the LAN.

4.9.2 Add sources

Double-click the video source that was not added, or click "Add Direct" to manually add the video source.

4.9.3 Modify source

Select the video source you want to modify and click "Modify" to modify the video source.

4.9.4 Delete source

Select the video source you want to delete and click "Delete" to delete the video source.

Notice: After deleting the video source, if the virtual screen contains a window of this video source, the window will not be cleared, and the user can manually clear the window of the video source.

4.9.5 Audio

Right click on the video source window to select the audio channel.

4.9.6 Window management

Split-screen

In the integrated video management system, split-screen refers to splitting a certain physical screen to display more videos.

Select the window that needs to be split, right-click, click "Split-screen", select the number of split screens to split the screen.

Notice: Splicing and roaming windows cannot perform split-screen operations.

Splice

Splicing is the operation of combining adjacent screens into a larger logical screen. Click "Splice", then hold down the left mouse button to select the screen frame you want to splice.

Right-click on the stitching screen, click "Split Splices" to cancel the stitching.

Roaming

The roaming window means that any screen can be cross-domain, and any position exists. Any size of the logical window roaming window means that any screen can be spanned across the domain, and any position, any size logical window exists.

Notice: The roaming window occupies a large number of server resources. It is recommended that the number of roaming windows be no more than three.

4.9.7 Video on the wall

Select a video source in the video source list and drag the left mouse button to the corresponding virtual screen to achieve the effect of the video on the wall.

4.10 Local picture and local videos

Local image and local video mean that local video and pictures are used as signal sources to display in the video wall.

Resources can be imported/deleted/modified in resource management, and JPG format images and H264 format videos can be supported.

4.11 polling

Polling means that a set of video sources is used as a signal source and placed in a window in which the video sources will switch between cyclic displays at regular intervals.

Click "Loop Setting" to enter the polling settings.

In this dialog box, all the polling schemes in the current system are displayed. Users can add, modify and delete polling schemes as needed.

4.11.1 Add Polling project

Click ”New” to add polling schemes.

Select the desired source, add it to the list, set polling time/type, and complete the creation of polling.

Notice: “Group Tour” can display a set of video sources simultaneously on the split window

4.12 Scene

The integrated video management system supports scene save and recall functions. It can save the set video wall split screen information, screen information, alarm information and other information, and can be called directly when needed, without re-setting. Click "Save Scene".

Right-click on the scene in the scene list to call or delete the scene.

4.13 PTZ control

In the monitoring system, there is a type of camera with PTZ control function. The integrated video management system supports pan/tilt operation for local cameras and such cameras in CVR.

4.14 Image setting

In the surveillance system, most cameras support two streams, called the primary stream and the substream (the substream is also called the secondary stream). The mainstream has a higher general resolution and bit rate, while the sub-stream has a lower general resolution and bit rate than the mainstream.

When Fluency Preferred is selected, the integrated video management system displays the mainstream only in the first split screen of the 1 split screen and the 6 split screen, and the other windows display the subcode stream.

When Definition Preferred is selected, the integrated video management system will take the main stream. (The mainstream is more resource-intensive. Note here that the server's decoding limit cannot be exceeded.)

4.15 OSD

Click "OSD" to display the channel name of the current channel.

4.16 Rolling subtitles

Click on "Rolling subtitles" to set the display subtitles.

4.17 Wall display

Click on "Wall Display" to echo the video wall screen.

4.18 E-map

Click on "E-map" to go to the page of the electronic map. The electronic map monitoring operation interface consists of two parts.

1. IP Device List: Displays all IP devices added to the CVRD.

2. Electronic map area: Displays the added electronic map and the IP devices added on the map.

4.19 Alarm

The integrated video management system can realize the linkage of alarms. After setting the alarm association and alarm pop-up window, when the alarm information is received, the alarm video can be popped up on the big screen. And you can query the alarm information on the "Alarm Information Page".

Set alarm association

1. IE Log in to the IP camera's IP address, set the alarm type on the IP camera and turn on the desired alarm type.

2. Click “Display ctrl” of the integrated video management system to enter the large screen control page. In the device list on the left, right-click and select the device to which the alarm association needs to be set.

Click on "Alarm relation" to enter the associated settings.

Alarm information inquiry

Click on "Alarms Info" to query the alarm information.