Leiosoft Video Capture V2.0 FAQ
Questions
How to reduce the size of the recorded avi file?
How to reduce the USB bus bandwidth usage to enable more USB cameras?
Which configurations are global settings?
How to start/stop a scheduled recording?
How to start motion detection?
How to add/remove/modify internet connection settings in LVC?
Where is the timestamp information in recorded avi file?
Give me some hints about the motion zones settings.
Answers
How to reduce the size of the recorded avi file?
Leiosoft Video Capture (LVC) use the technique of sequential frames compress method to compress and save avi frames. There are lots of compressor shipped with Windows, but most of them generate large compressed frame, some of them even cannot be initialized (MS H263,MS H261). The speed of compressing a single frame are different as well. It is strongly recommended to install the codec from DIVX company, the driver can be downloaded from www.divx.com. In a test, with a 3.11 version Divx codec driver, it takes only 52MB disk space to save a 38 minutes movie.
So the tricks to do this are:
How to reduce the USB bus bandwidth usage to enable more USB cameras?
The USB bus bandwidth usage depends on the camera driver. For example, the driver of the USB camera "Logitech Quickcam Express" is hungry of USB bandwidth and CPU clock, while the driver of USB camera " PC Camera 6029 CIF" from Taiwan just use very little.
In LVC 2.00 a new feature was added, which support two capture mode "Leisurely" and "High speed", the "leisurely" mode can greatly reduce CPU usage, but it can not greatly reduce the USB bus bandwidth usage because it depends on the driver.
So the tricks to do this are:
Which configurations are global settings?
Please look at the tool bar of the main window, it is separated to be 4 sections. Those buttons in the second section will work on every camera individually. Those buttons in the third section will set global settings. The settings on the pop up menu of every camera will work on every camera individually too.
How to start/stop a scheduled recording?
Use the schedule setting dialog box to set individual schedule for every camera. Choose the time to start and stop recording, then choose the weekdays that you want to schedule. Once you push the OK button, the schedule will begin to work. You may change it at any time. Once the scheduled recording (or just motion detecting ) is started, you may cancel it manually by uncheck the menu item of the camera windows' pop up menu.
How to start and stop motion detection?
There are four ways to do so:
How to add/remove/modify internet connection settings in LVC?
Sorry, You should add/remove/modify you ISP connections by using the Windows control panel outside of LVC.
Where is the timestamp information in recorded avi file?
LVC saves the timestamp into AVI file as an individual text stream. You can see timestamp by using Windows Media Player, in the View menu, check the caption menu item.
Give me some hints about the motion zones settings.
On the motion zone setting dialog box there is a help button, it include all of the rules of zones.
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