Hi guys, Hik Guru here in today's video I'm going to be showing you how to use the web
interface to live view playback and save footage on your hikvision dvr or nvr.
So first of we need our ipv4 address if you don't know that simply use HikVision's SADP
Tool the link to that will be down in the description.
So that will show you what your IP is we're going to type that address into internet explorer,
I've got that bookmarked but now you just need to login using your credentials.
So this is the live view screen, now to get the cameras just to load automatically on
this screen the second that you login you just need to go to configuration at the top,
you then need to go to local in the top left corner and then you can see here it says auto
start live view just select yes and then scroll down and click on save said save succeeded.
So let's go back to the live view on the top menu, so sometimes this will load for some
people for others it won't load and that is because of a verification code or encryption
key error as it says at the top there and that will be when you setup Hik-Connect you've
assigned a encryption key so you need to type that into the web interface so lets go back
to configuration back to local and here where it says encryption key you need to type in
your verification code and click save if you've not yet set an encryption key or you're not
sure what it is simply go to network advanced settings platform access and this is where
your encryption key is if you press the closed eye it will reveal what it is I recommend
you set it to something a bit more difficult than that and then just click save whatever
it was.
Go back to local type it in click save and once you go back to your live view all of
your cameras should load up automatically as you can see so I've got 6 cameras connected
so it's showing in a 3 by 3 grid if you want at the bottom here you've got a selection
where you can have 4 cameras or 1 camera so lets try 4 and lets try 1 so as you can see
the image is quite blurry that's because it's in sub stream mode so that reduces the overall
quality of the image but it might load a lot quicker depending on how slow your internet
is if you want to put it into main stream you're just going to go next to the camera
that's loaded at the moment click on the little number 2 and that will bring up main stream
option click on main stream and straight away you see the difference.
At the bottom here you can go through the different cameras as you can see image quality
is terrible we'll change that to main stream, amazing.
At the bottom we've got our zoom digital zoom function click on that and you can scroll
with the mouse wheel to zoom in and out, you've got your PTZ controls on the right hand side
should you have a PTZ camera you've got your left right up down really easy stuff.
So now if you want to playback footage you're simply going to click on the playback button
at the top menu now on the left hand side we've got our list of cameras lets say we
wanted the garden camera you're going to click on that and then at the bottom you've got
your calendar which shows all the dates that have been recorded they have a little blue
marker on them.
Now I know I've got footage in December aswell but it's not showing on these dates here so
you've got to go back to the December month click on that arrow there and you can see
I've got dates there that have also been recorded back in December.
So lets say we wanted the 25th click on that then click on search below.
And now if you just click on the play button here that will play the footage from midnight
on that day again that's in a 3 by 3 grid lets change that to just 1 camera down here
makes it a bit bigger for us we've got our fast forward button here to speed it up to
4 times or you can also slow down the footage half speed quarter speed.
Lets say you wanted to record a bit of footage here you can use these scissors right here
if you click on those they should come up in red but as you can see it says failed to
clip and that is because the internet explorer has not been run in administrator mode so
if you want to save any footage directly to your computer you must enable administrator
mode so lets quickly close out of internet explorer lets search for internet explorer
we're going to right click on it run as administrator yes and then type in your IP address again
quickly log back in head over to playback at the top again select your camera select
your date click on search press play make it bigger you can also type in the specific
time that you want here although this is the latest firmware that I'm running with the
latest plugin not everyone will have this option you might be on an older firmware if
you want to know how to update your firmware simply check out our other video linked above.
So now we want to record this footage here we're going to click on the scissors you can
see now they come up in red so that is recording that clip right there so lets say I've just
seen someone jump over my fence they've been lurking in the garden for a minute I'm going
to watch the whole entire clip and once its finished recording click on the scissors icon
one more time and that will save the footage and you can see clip succeeded you can click
on view and that will bring you to the file location.
So this is the clip here its in mp4 format windows media player will not be able to play
this footage so you need to download vlc player I'll link that in the description so you need
to click on open with vlc media player and straight away it will play the footage but
yeah guys that is pretty much it pretty self explanatory stuff but if you do need any help
whatsoever just drop me a comment drop me an email my email is in the description any
help I'll advise you the best that I can but yeah take care guys, bye bye.