VBrick Systems EtherneTV NVR User's Manual
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1. Cag VBrick ETV Network Video Recorder EtherneTV v4 2 1 NVR Release Notes VBrick May 9 2008 4410 0162 0005 Copyright O 2008 VBrick Systems Inc All rights reserved 12 Beaumont Road Wallingford Connecticut 06492 USA www V Brick com This publication contains confidential proprietary and trade secret information No part of this document may be copied photocopied reproduced translated or reduced to any machine readable or electronic format without prior written permission from VBrick Information in this document is subject to change without notice and VBrick Systems assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies VBrick VBrick Systems the VBrick logo StreamPlayer and StreamPlayer Plus are trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and other countries Windows Media is a trademarked name of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries All other products or services mentioned in this document are identified by the trademarks service marks or product names as designated by the companies who market those products Inquiries should be made directly to those companies This document may also have links to third party web pages that are beyond the control of VBrick The presence of such links does not imply that VBrick endorses or recommends the content of any third party web pages VBrick acknowledges the use of third party open source software and licenses2. Network Video Recorder Release Notes 3 The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one space Additionally comments such as these may be inserted on individual lines or following the machine name denoted by a symbol For example 102 54 94 97 rhino acme com source server 38 25 63 10 x acme com x client host 12705071 localhost nvr ip address nvr computer name The ETV Portal Server and the NVR must be in the same time zone Also in order to record successfully the system time on ETV Portal server and the NVR must be synchronized You can synchronize the machines for example by tunning the Service for Windows Time on both machines See Synchronizing the Portal Server and the NVR in the Portal Server Admin Guide In order to record multiple streams the Recorder path must be under FTP root For example if root is C Inetpub ftproot the Recorder path must be C Inetpub ftproot lt your_folder gt If you try to uninstall the Microsoft NET 1 1 framework prior to uninstalling the Network Video Recorder the uninstall of the Microsoft NET 1 1 framework will fail because the Network Video Recorder uses this framework If you need to uninstall the Microsoft NET 1 1 Framework you first need to uninstall the Network Video Recorder software The default FTP path in IIS is automatically set via the installer but depending on the particular machine s configuration it may need to be chang
3. NVR 10 Licenses e 73GB SAS 3 5 inch 10K RPM hard drive e 73GB SAS 3 5 inch 10K RPM hard drive e 146GB SAS 3 5 inch 10K RPM hard drive e 146GB SAS 3 5 inch 10K RPM hard drive e 146GB SAS 3 5 inch 10K RPM hard drive e 146GB SAS 3 5 inch 10K RPM hard drive NVR 40 Licenses e 146GB SAS 3 5 inch 10K RPM hard drive e 146GB SAS 3 5 inch 10K RPM hard drive e 300GB SAS 3 5 inch 10K RPM hard drive e 300GB SAS 3 5 inch 10K RPM hard drive e 300GB SAS 3 5 inch 10K RPM hard drive 300GB SAS 3 5 inch 10K RPM hard drive Caveats This section addresses known issues in this release most of which have an easy workaround For more information about any item or help with an issue not listed here contact your reseller or VBrick Customer Service When recording to an NVR from an MPEG 1 MPEG 2 encoder and you stop the recording before it reaches 1 of the Defined Record Duration the FTP will fail with an error message on the Status page The NVR does not recognize extremely small files and this is standard behavior The NVR 40 lets you record any combination of up to 40 MPEG 1 MPEG 2 MPEG 4 and WM streams at a time There are however performance limitations when recording multiple high rate MPEG 2 or WM streams at the same time At MPEG 2 rates up to 5 5MBps ot WM rates up to 1 2MBps 40 simultaneous recordings ate fully supported At higher rates however the full licensing capacity cannot be used For example w
4. in some VBrick products This freely available source code is posted at http www vbrick com opensoutce About VBrick Systems Founded in 1997 VBrick Systems an ISO 9001 certified vendor is a privately held company that has enjoyed rapid growth by helping our customers successfully introduce mission critical video applications across their enterprise networks Since our founding VBrick has been setting the standard for quality performance and innovation in the delivery of live and stored video over IP networks LANs WANs and the Internet With thousands of video appliances installed world wide VBrick is the recognized leader in reliable high performance easy to use networked video solutions VBrick is an active participant in the development of industry standards and continues to play an influential role in the Internet Streaming Media Alliance ISMA the MPEG Industry Forum and Internet2 In 1998 VBrick invented and shipped the world s first MPEG Video Network Appliance designed to provide affordable DVD quality video across the network Since then VBrick s video solutions have grown to include Video on Demand Management Security and Access Control Scheduling and Rich Media Integration VBrick solutions are successfully supporting a broad variety of applications including distance learning and training conferencing and remote office communications security process monitoring traffic monitoring business and news feeds to the de
5. e NVR as explained in the Portal Server Admin Guide If you purchased only the software from VBrick you must install the NVR software as explained below and then configure it using the instructions in the Admin Guide If you are using server hardware not purchased from VBrick be sure to read NVR Hardware Recommendations on page 2 Installing a Standard NVR v To install a standard NVR 1 Go to the Network Video Recorder page on the Product CD and double click on the Standard NVR setup file 2 Follow the prompts and exit the window when done 3 Then open the Portal Server Admin Console and configure the NVR see Configuring a Standard NVR in the Portal Server Admin Guide Installing a Standalone NVR vw Toinstalla standalone NVR 1 Go to the Network Video Recorder page on the Product CD and double click on the Standalone NVR setup file Network Video Recorder Release Notes 1 2 The installation steps ate identical to those used to install the Portal Server See Installing the Portal Server in the Portal Server Release Notes for complete details 3 Follow the prompts and exit the window when done 4 Then open the Standalone NVR Portal Server Admin Console and configure the NVR see Configuring a Standalone NVR in the Portal Server Admin Guide Configuring an NVR See NVR Configuration in the Portal Server Admin Guide for complete configuration instructions NVR Hardware Recommendations If you
6. ed The installer sets the default FTP path to D Inetpub ftproot in IIS if a D drive is detected Otherwise it sets the path to c Inetpub ftproot If you have a machine with an E drive and you want to set the FTP path to E you need to do two things First go to IIS and use the right mouse button to select on the Default FTP Site select Properties from the popup menu The Default FTP Site Properties dialog box will appear Select the Home Directory tab In the Local Path edit box change the value to E Inetpub ftproot and hit OK Second you need to go to the Admin Console gt Global Settings gt Global Assignments and change Select FTP root path to E inetpub ftproot and then change Select a media storage path to E inetpub ftproot MCS Record 2008 VBrick Systems Inc VBrick VBrick Systems Inc 12 Beaumont Road Wallingford Connecticut 06492 USA
7. hen using the Best Quality WM template at 4 5MBps 10 simultaneous records are supported when using MPEG 2 at 15MBps 15 simultaneous recordings are supported e Batch recording to an NVR from a WM VBrick encoder is not supported the Batch tab is greyed out on the Scheduling page Batch recording is supported from all other VBrick encoders e The Portal Server and the NVR are tightly linked In order to avoid backward compatibility issues always upgrade the NVR from the same package when you upgrade the Portal Server and vice versa In some cases because of a naming resolution issue a LAN Network Video Recorder NVR does not record when the ETV Portal Server server is in a DMZ As shown on the status page the recording will either fail or run indefinitely without actually recording To work around this issue modify or create a hosts file on the ETV Portal Server as shown below Go to c windows system32 drivers etc hosts Open the hosts file in an editor and add the IP address and computer name of the NVR as shown below If the hosts file is not present you must create one by saving a txt file with no extension Copyright c 1993 1999 Microsoft Corp This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP IP for Windows This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names Each entry should be kept on an individual line The IP address should be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name
8. r server hardware was not purchased from VBrick it must meet the following minimum specifications The following tables show the recommended hardware and hard drive configuration relative to the number of purchased licenses VBrick requires that you use dedicated server that meets or exceeds these specifications The use of a less capable system may adversely affect system performance Table 1 Recommended Hardware Specifications NVR 10 Record Licenses NVR 40 Record Licenses Platform Dell PowerEdge 2950 Dell PowerEdge 2950 Processor Dual Core Xeon Processor 5130 2 Dual Core Xeon Processor 4MB Cache 2 00GHz 1333MHz 5130 4MB Cache 2 00GHz FSB 1333MHz FSB Memory 1 GB 533 MHz 2 GB 533 MHz Storage capacity 2 73 GB OS drives 4 146 GB content drives 2 146 GB OS drives 4 300 GB content drives RAID Type 2 drive RAID 1 for OS drives 2 drive RAID1 for OS drives 4 drive RAID5 for content drives 4 drive RAID5 for content drives CPU 1 3 GHz dual core 2 3 GHz dual core RAM 1 GB DDR RAM 2 GB DDR RAM CDROM 24X IDE CD ROM 24X IDE CD ROM Chassis 2U 2U Power supply Redundant Redundant Operating System Windows Server 2003 Web Edition or Standard Edition Windows Server 2003 Web Edition or Standard Edition Table 2 Recommended Drive Configuration NVR Type Recommended Configuration 2008 VBrick Systems Inc NVR v4 2 Release Notes
9. sktop webcasting corporate communications collaboration command and control and telemedicine VBrick serves customers in education government healthcare and financial services markets among others NVR v4 2 Release Notes The Network Video Recorder NVR is a component of VBrick s Media Control Server Suite and provides a dedicated platform to perform multiple simultaneous recordings of live streams coming from VBrick encoders The NVR lets you off load all recording tasks from the ETV Portal Server machine to one or more separate recorder server machines The NVR is available in two versions one that supports 10 simultaneous records and one that supports 40 and is ideal for environments that require large scale recording on a robust and reliable platform The NVR is tightly integrated with the Portal Server the Scheduler and VBrick s Video on Demand servers See the ETV Portal Server Administrator Guide for related information Topics in this document Installing an NVR een A ra re Gee eek 1 Confiouting an NVR ii re ins 2 NVR Hardware Recommendations 0 00 cette nee eens 2 CAV C ALS a Acs sas dies A E ada eae at 3 Installing an NVR The NVR is sold as a hardware software combination or as software only product If you purchased the hardware software combination from VBrick the Standard or Standalone NVR software will be pre installed and your server license s will be activated You will still need to configure th
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