DCR Digital CCTV Replay

DCR Lite And Professional Overview

DCR’s extensive support for most current and discontinued digital CCTV formats allows video files to be viewed immediately without having to obtain or attempt risky download of players. DCR’s player and codec management engine ensures all players are fully compatible with the computers operating system by not actually installing any files, players are run in a virtual environment which is cleaned and a new instance started for the next required player. This significantly reduces the risk of system crashes and codec conflicts which are common problems when installing 3rd party video codecs and DVR players programs.

No Players are installed with DCR, all required files and resources are contained within its encrypted SERVICEPACK which can be continually expanded. Consequently there is NO UPPER LIMIT to the number of formats that can be supported by DCR.

Several DVR systems export files with common extensions such as .DVR and to replay these files without prior knowledge of which player and which version is required would be very difficult. To ease this problem, DCR uses a specifically developed multi-layer format-detection method which is not dependant on just the file extension. When trained with suitable sample files, DCR is 100% accurate to pin-point the correct manufacturer and player version required to playback the file it has detected.

Once the CCTV video file has been decoded, DCR can accurately convert the original proprietary digital video to a standard format such as AVI or MPEG allowing easy storage and distribution of video evidence. When combined with its Case Management and built-in DVD burning facility, a full end-to-end digital only process can be achieved.

DCR screen capture has been specifically developed for recording from DVR Players and can capture any area of the screen or player surface which is user or pre-defined. Screen recording is performed without compression to RAM for short duration events, or to Hard Disk or RAID Storage for long duration events. The default setting of the screen capture is to record using our specific motion detection, where individual video frames are recorded only when the DVR player updates its image display window, this is specifically designed for accurate capture of time-lapse recordings. A constant frame rate recording (25 fps in PAL or 30 fps in NTSC) is also available if required. When using our motion detection based recording, DCR will record the exact number of images that have been displayed in the player display window without dropping or duplicating images, thereby avoiding a common problem other screen capture programs suffer from.

DCR is also available as a “PRO” version which uniquely features the ability to extract the Time & Date information from supported digital video files and overlay it directly onto the image in real-time for video sequences or on still images. The PRO version also offers some useful enhancement facilities such as a “SUPER RESOLUTION” filter and a DVD output playlist feature.