HSVO Camera Array Player

Installation

• Download the setup file.
  Note:
  • This package is quite large as it includes .net framework 2.0 installation, WinSDK 6.0 installation and IPP DLL files distribution. For those that already have one of above package, you can ignore corresponding installation by press cancel button in each package installation.
  • When the player update is available, it will be as a small update package.
• Use winrar to unzip the file.
• Open cap_setup from unzipped folder
• Launch setup.bat inside the folder.
  • The installation script will create the shortcut on your desktop and on Start Menu->HSVO Camera Array Player folder.
  • The installation will also launch the player for the 1st time. Simply click the exit button on right-top corner.

Usage

• Overlook: The gui looks like (click the image to see the full size):
  
  
• Menu:
  Right click the view window, you will be able to select the view mode settings and camera channel switch from popup menu.
  
• View Mode:
  • Full Screen Window : Full screen mode with controls
  • Full Screen Video: Only video in full screen mode, no controls.
  • 1024x768: This is the native video resolution sent from the server
  • 800x600
  • 640x480
    
• Channel selection:
  You can select channel from either of following 3 ways:
  • Popup menu
  • The 8 buttons on the bottom
  • Or the combo box from bottom left corner.
  • Note:
    • First 4 channels are used for offline session and last 4 channels are used for live session (we use 2 cameras most of time so channel 7 and channel 8 are usually off).
    • Always select one of 1st 4 channels first, as they shall be always on.
    • It is fine to select the channel that are not on, simply switch back to the channel that is on. But the 1st channel you selected shall always be the channel that is on.
• How to move the window:
  If the view mode is not in full screen window or full screen view mode, you can press and hold the left button on viewer window to move the window.
  
• Minimize, Maximize and Exit buttons are all on top-right corner

System Requirement & Time Measurement:

• Prefer a dual core or above processor based Windows computer. The lower end, the lower response when switch the channel.
• The client computer must be on lightpath. Otherwise you won't be able to connect the stream.
• On a quad core computer, it shall take 1 second to display the logo (starting), 1 second (or less) to display the 1st selected channel (usually channel 1) and 1 second (or less) to switch the channel.
• The latency is mostly on server side. It takes roughly 1 second for 1024x768x7.5 fps H.264 streaming. This will be improved with different configuration.

Known Issue:

1. There is about 1% of chance that the h.264 decoding will crash when select the 1st channel. If you are running on a decent computer and the video doesn't display after 10 second (when server is on), that means something is wrong during the decoding.
2. The 1st channel you selected shall always be the channel that is on. Otherwise the player will wait there forever until the channel is on (there is no time out at this moment to keep the player live before server is on. I am thinking about set the time out...) . If you want to exit the player at this monent. Exit button is not working and you may have to use Task Manager to kill the cap_gui.exe.
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