NetVu Observer Release Notes

Release History:
Release Date Summary of Functional Improvements
1.18.11 13/10/10 Application updates
• Progress indications are now given in all cases in a raw
download.
• Improvements to the decoder support.
• The time slider in replay behaves better when dragged
beyond the very beginning of a set of files.
• Simplifications to the procedure of burning a CD/DVD.
• Full-screen in replay respects the time replayed.
• The installer overwrites files correctly on Windows 7.
• The selected resolution is more clear than in earlier
versions.
• Tripwires clear at the correct time.
1.18.6 04/10/10 New features
• Enhanced support for NetVu-enabled decoders.
• Added support for creating evidence DVDs.
• Added passive FTP support for raw downloads.
• Playback of H.264 video.
• Full-screen video.

Application updates
• Unified the export and download options, so that users no
longer need to perform as many steps in creating AVI
files and DVDs.
• Made dragging and dropping from one segment to another
swap the images rather than duplicate one.
• Made sure the Live, Replay, Events, Site Info, etc., tabs
are visible.
• Made preset sequences perform less network
communication, speeding up each change in the sequence.

1_16_28 18/06/10 New Features

• New Installer.
• Provides a splash screen when initially loading.
• ObserVer can now use Open Street Map for viewing data
from TransVu units.
• In live - when switching to a multiscreen, enables
automatic selection of a low transmission profile.
• Enabled Multiple camera selective archive with
associated audio.
• Allow timezone info to be hidden (Options/Appearance).
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 • Provide a "browse/retry" pop up if sites directory is
unavailable on start.
• Remove dependency on Nero for burning CD’s.
• Default to requesting lower resolution images when
requesting quad/multiscreen.
• Improved processor loading on client PC.
• Allow keyboard to be disabled (Please contact your local
DM Technical Support for details).
• Now displays the ObserVer logo when disconnecting..
• Enable the ability to save resolution with display presets.
• Alert the user if trying to connect to a site with an invalid
IP address.
• Allow Observer to be used when the PC language set to
Portuguese.

Application updates
• Stopped trying to connect to DVR if set Save resolution
with display presets.
• Improved video import functionality when using a
Vidctrl.dat file.
• Improved Quad segment operation when a segment has
failed connection.
• Improved the performance of the application.
• Improved playing back video from TransVu units.
• The title of "Embedded Data" box is now the IP address
of current server.
• The live button is always visible if window is resized.
• Improved embedded text display after reconnecting to a
server.
• Ensure two frames in PAR files can not contain the same
timestamp.
• Update the certificate used to sign the viewer applet.
• Made the file/save box always visible.
• Fixed export of PAR to AVI under certain conditions.
• Improved the relays window to update the relay state.
• Improved the 6-way view.
• The Playback keyboard is always displayed when loading
a PAR file.
• Allow playback of PAR files when PC set to Turkish
regional settings.
• Improved playback of PAR files.
• Change speed to 1 when switching from FFWD->RWND
or vice-versa.
• Enable exception event logs.
• Allow reference images to update when switching
between servers.
• "Burn downloaded file to disk" is now shown on

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 Windows Server 2003.
• Improved AVI export, where unit timezone contained an
offset.
• Prevented problem if user clicked "close" button instead
of "Yes" or "No" when closing ObserVer.
• Clicking "Close Video" when playing a PAR now returns
to the initial view.
• Ensure that no warning message is displayed when AVI
export succeeds.
• Don't request audio from servers that don't support it.
• Improved Decoder control.
• Allow users to paste an address with trailing slashes ("/").
• Prevent users storing the same IP address twice.
• Improved the G-force graph functionality.
• Made sure relay boxes show the correct info when
switching between sites.
• Improved entering passwords on password protected
servers.
• Improved analytics graphics overlay.
EDP 16/06/10 You MUST use NetVu ObserVer 1.16.28 or later use with this
1_16_24 version of EDP.

•- Ensure EDP uses the correct time for "startup" events

•- Change default "arcId" parameter query to ignore alarms
that don't have the "Unit Alarm Name" or "Alarm Server
Ref ID" set.
• - Include a report that shows all tamper alarms received
between two dates.
• - Update client activity report. Previous report was very
inefficient and when database grew large would time out
and give no results.
• - Provide a method to automatically update existing
databases to the new format.
• - Resolve issues with creating reports in XLS format.
• - EDP now works on Windows Vista.
• - Fixed issues with client activity report.
• - Ensure that EDP starts correctly if IPV6 is enabled on
the PC.
• - Fix exception when closing alarms through ObserVer.
1_15_8 14/01/10 Maintenance release.
1_15_7 15/12/09 New Features
• In live - when switching to a multiscreen, enables
automatic selection of a low transmission profile
• Enabled Multiple camera selective archive with
associated audio
• Improved Date chooser facility
• Added facility to manage reference images, using
a thumbnail / deletion option
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 • Support added for Live in line audio to enable Observer to
know which cameras have associated audio channels.
• Support connections over HTTPS has now been
added on Gen3 servers, this requires a key to be added to
the server. Upgrade to server software is required to above
v38. Not supported on all products. On observer this is
enabled by using the URL, "https:<ip_address>"
• Added support for CFB Encryption (decryption of
video transmission from Gen3 products with this
capability)
• Added support for independent resolutions for
multi-way & single layouts in live mode.
• Enable support for in line audio reception
• Support has been added for audio replay on Observer
filtered downloads
• Support has been added to select a separate
resolution for single, quad and multiway displays. Once
selected at a specific resolution, Observer will apply this
whenever that screen layout is selected. (This is
overridden by default Live settings).

Application updates
• Spot mode selection does not now occur on a single
layout
• Modified search for I frame in goto time bar, to step back
to previous I frame
• Audio is now always transmitted received as in line
• Corrected the video replay time selection across a
Daylight Saving time Boundary, or any other UTC offset
change.
• Incident finder now works on Gen3 products
• Corrected replay of audio from associated audio channels
on a Raw downloaded par file. (DV-IP RT)
• Reduced size of Authentication dialog
• Prevented occasional operation halt when moving
timeline bar in PAR file replay
• Corrected location and sizing of the Options
dialog too large
• Enabled Decoder names to be less than 3
characters
• Corrected the display of local offset time on the replay
time bar.
• Improved the speed of operation when leaving options
dialogue by not re-reading the site tree.
• Corrected error where you can not cancel a connection to
a server
• Removed non existent cameras from filtered download
list
• Improved connection speed on Gen3 servers by using
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 multiple variable list capture
• Corrected error where pop up "sites folder doesn't
exist" error occurs on load from CD

1_14_1 21/09/09 New Features

• Zoom speed slider added
• Added capability to export RTF files as well as pdf's, to
enable import into Word or Open office
• Enabled all images in a freeze frame to be exported to pdf
or RTF
• Add support for displaying analytics objects
• Added short cut operation keys CTRL1 - REC, CTRL2 -
Pause, CTRL3 - Rewind / Step back, CTRL4 - Play,
CTRL5 - FF / Step forward, CTRL6 Live
• Text search is now possible on raw and selective archives
• Speed units in Google earth integration now support mph/
kph and knots
• Import video Dialogue auto closes and starts playing
video
• Included delete and move in preset sequence definition
• Enabled multiscreen replay of selective archived video
• Added MPEG2 export as well as AVI export capability
• Added capability to stipulate new telemetry port
• Provided a facility to export the event list to the clipboard
by right clicking on the event list. Exported as comma
delimited text.
• Introduced support to connect via customers Proxy
servers in NetVu ObserVer.

Application Updates
• MPEG4 creation of AVI's corrected NetVu ObserVer
crash
• Corrected deletion of a temporary image server causing
failures
• Corrected scaling error on image display
• Corrected GOTO time when selecting across a timezone
change
• Date highlight in calendar now more obvious
• Image format for new sites defaults to MPEG4
• In multiscreen displays NetVu ObserVer now only
displays the active enabled cameras and ignores disabled /
disallowed cameras.
• Substantially improved activity search operation
• Corrected anomaly in event tab operation where incorrect
camera was selected when entering events
• Replay last recorded file, picks up last locally recorded
file correctly
• Improved CD creation process to make messages

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 appropriate and timely.
• Stopped VCR buttons getting "stuck" on after multiple
repetitive clicks
• Unintentional split column screen prevented from
occurring
• When no connection can be made, NetVu ObserVer now
shows a dialogue providing reasons for why the image
connection is not shown
• Activity controls displays now resizes correctly and keeps
controls visible
• If sites directory is unavailable NetVu ObserVer maps to
the home directory.
• Corrected text search filtering
• Improved management of socket closure on multiple
make / break connections
• Improved reporting of PAR file size on import
•
• Corrected Incident finder to work with SD Range and
other Gen 3 platforms such DV-IP Server, RT, HD and
Express.
• Corrected handling of 6 way display to size images
correctly.
• Correction to enable local recording to be automatically
terminated when NetVu ObserVer is closed
• Improved handling of large files from locally connected
USB drives
• Corrected situation where telemetry controls could not be
forced on for non telemetry cameras
• Corrected - Stepping through events to next page steps
two events on.

1_9_11 15/04/09 New Features

• Incident finder now supports multiple cameras
• NetVu ObserVer recording to PAR files now splits files at
50MB file size

Application Update
• Corrected replay server camera titles
• Added support for EDP over VPN's
• Added support for MPEG4 p frame advance
• Added "Replay stop" when image is paused
• Incident finder now opens full screen every time
• Replay of MPEG4 PAR logs has been corrected
• Improved Multiscreen streaming from multiple servers by
handling buffer allocation for individual streams instead
of shared buffers.

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 EDP 1.3.5 29/08/08 Application Update
• Users page displays full list and Log out button.
• NetVu ObserVer users can log in and view an initial list of
alarms, or any alarms that arrive subsequently.

1_9_4 29/08/08 New features

• The Incident Finder is a feature to support the manual process
of finding video relating to an incident when there is no meta
data associated with the event itself i.e. the event did not
cause an alarm or VMD activation. The Incident Finder will
allow rapid search of incidents through a time-line of still
JPEG images.
• Added hidden property to NetVu ObserVer which disables or
hides all the UI controls that can be used to extract/download
video from the system. (Contact Technical Services for
further information)
Application Update
• Applying changes to the decoder now submits all of the
connections for all of the monitors
• Can now distinguish the different decoder types and send the
appropriate commands on right mouse click in single layout
mode.
• Drag and Drop now works on decoder servers.
• Changed the default image format to MPEG4. Note that it is
possible in ObserVer to save your own set of defaults for use
when creating new sites, and those will still take preference
over this change.
• Time-line bar in replay viewer now uses PC time zone
settings and date format.
• Milliseconds appear to countdown when the video is playing
is fixed
• Site plan now updates and displays correctly.
• Can now import par files when NetVu ObserVer is set to
Turkish language mode.
• Burn to download file now automatically launches the CD
Burn File Wizard after the download has completed.

1_9_2 17/05/08 New features

• Added Point and Go support for DM Oracle domes – with
Zoom in to box.
Application Update
• Improved handling and control of CD archiving, so that CD
are recognised even when only just put in, and allows a back
step through wizard.
• Watermarking was missed out if progressing through export
wizard too quickly, Next button is now disabled until the
watermarks have been created
• NetVu ObserVer was unable to receive alarms from EDP
with 2
active Network interface cards. A command line option has
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 been included to enable the card to be used to be specified ie:
-Dbind.address=<IP address of NIC>
• It was not possible to export 4CIF JPEG images to AVI, this
has now been corrected.
1_9_1 12/05/08 Application Update
• Stopped prompt for upgrade when run from an archive CD.
• Add explicit transcoding support to NetVu ObserVer to
enable
configurable definition of the transcode parameters from
NetVu ObserVer.
• Click & Drag on digitally zoomed image has now been
corrected, previously this had only worked with slide bars.
• Problems burning large volumes of data on Mode2 evidence
CDs – Mode 2 methods have now been removed.
Basic message in command window added to let the user know
that the Java is loading and this may take some time.
EDP 1.3.0 20/03/08 Application Update
• Corrected issue where an alarm appeared and then
subsequently disappeared from the display.
1_9_0 20/03/08 New Capability
• Add ability to create multiple copies of evidence CDs
• Now able to add a Decoder to the site tree

Notes: Requires Nero to be installed to burn evidential

CD’s
AVI playback requires the use of Windows Media Player
11.

Application Updates

• AVI export operates correctly with local (NetVu

ObserVer) video recordings and handles missing cameras
correctly.
• NetVu ObserVer now launches with PC language set to
Turkish
• Live and goto times have been corrected for certain
timezones (Australia / NZ, and other 30 min offsets.)
• Resolved occasional halt when opening video in replay
viewer
• Text in image data is now only shown for selected image
segment, and the caption of the text in image window
displays the associated camera title
• Corrected operation of the viewer in Swedish, Dutch and
French (Canadian).
• Results of activity search are now sequenced
chronologically in the correct order and the Page +/- now
operates correctly
• Corrected occasional image freeze when embedded data is
displayed.

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 • Corrected issues with AVI creation from selectively
archived video data.
• PDF and JPEG/Text now encodes text as UTF-8 and
therefore is readable.
• Corrected issues with the G force graph operation in
Swedish and Russian languages

EDP1_2_ 20/11/07 Application updates

1
Number of functional fixes to resolve issues when running in complex alarm
handling environments.
1_8_0 20/11/07 New Functionality

• Export Video to AVI format on the replay viewer

• Multiscreen layouts for Widescreen monitors
• Layouts of 6 way- 3 x 2, 12 way - 4 x 3 and 24 way - 6 x 4
have been added
• Google Earth Integration
• For TransVu users the Google earth integration enables
customers to track and display vehicle positions using the Google
Earth package, when the TransVu is integrated with a GPS
system.
• Copy images to Clipboard for use in other Applications
• Create Pdf reports with Images, data and comments for
evidential use
• New drag bar for easier view of downloaded video on replay
server
• Live Connect on Remote alarm reception
• Capability to view multiple zone cameras on remote alarm
reception
• Enhanced Smart Activity Search
• Improved video download over low bandwidth / high latency
links.
• Video download is resumed if it is interrupted due to
network disruption.
• Improved Video replay buttons with speed selectors
• The Video control buttons have been improved to make it
simpler to navigate recorded video. There is now a pull down
speed selector on Fast forward and Rewind enabling speed
selections from 1/4 to 64.
• Improvements to Preset sequence operation
• Speedometer information now shown in KPH or MPH
• Added capability for site info RTF docs to be added

Application update

A number of updates to improve the performance of the software have been

made.
EDP1_1_ 08/05/07 • Notes fields are now stored in plain text.
2
• Reports updated for above
1_7_0 08/05/07 Full release onto product

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 New Functionality

• Enhanced user operation of replay server to enable multiple drives,

locations or files to be added as one index. This enables utilisation of
BX2 CA with 2 drives.
• Capability to save and view multiple reference images has been added
- Reference image viewer switches when cameras selected in the tree.
• Save still image provides a recommended file name based on
{site_id}-{channel_number}-{YYYYMMDD}-{HHMMSS}-
{milliseconds}. This can be overidden
• An associated text file of header text is saved with a still image with
extension .txt. A comment field is also available when saving images.
• Preset Sequence functionality has been added to enable Views on the
NetVu ObserVer window to be sequenced.

• A cameo view has been added to the site info and site plan tabs
• Comma’s are now allowed in camera titles
• Stored user account details work for secondary web ports

Application Updates

• PC’s with 2 network cards can now log onto EDP

• Filtered download timeout is now equal to the network timeout,
providing improved reliability of downloads over low reliability
networks.
• Log in to EDP in non English languages enabled
• The Timezone suffix has been removed from the Goto Calendar
• Reports now all work correctly

EDP1.1.1 18/4/07 Application updates

• The EDP no longer requires access to the internet in order to launch.

• The default size of the window has been changed so that the change
password button is no longer obscured.
• The EDP now shuts down reliably and does not lock up during the
shut down process.

• The user's password is now cleared after the user has logged in to the
EDP to prevent anyone else from logging in with their details after
they have logged out.
EDP 2 01/02/07 Event Distribution Point
1_1_0a • The EDP operates correctly when multiple Admin users created on
first run of EDP
• The standard DM reports have now been included in the distribution
and operate correctly
1_6_3Fin 29/01/07 Screen and display
al • The highlighter behaviour of the site tree component is now
consistent with the behaviour of the folder tree in Windows Explorer
when activating the context menu.
• The site tree is no longer corrupted when using long camera titles or
deeply nested site structures.
• The site info and site plan tabs are now always shown (if available)
when first connecting to a video server. Sometimes they would not
show until the user changed camera on the site or made some other
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 change.
Exception handling
• A 'NoSuchElement' exception is no longer thrown when trying to
open a video partition that contains no video. Instead the file can be
opened and will return the "No Image Available" image.
• A 'FileNotFoundException' is no longer thrown when NetVu
ObserVer is run for the first time.
Downloads
• Filtered downloads now complete reliably, even if the server closes
the connection without sending an image that is after the expected
finish time.
• FTP downloads no longer timeout prematurely meaning that reliable
downloads over ADSL and Wi-Fi networks is now possible.
IP connections
• Cached data from video servers is now cleared when disconnecting
from the video server. This means it is no longer necessary to restart
NetVu ObserVer to pick up changes to camera titles, relay status etc.
It is still necessary to disconnect and reconnect to the video server
however.
• It is now possible to connect to video servers that have a hostname
beginning with a digit.
Date and Time
• The date and time picker component now uses the correct date when
activated, instead of always using the current date.

1_6_3 22/01/07 Upgraded release of NetVu ObserVer to

• Run on executable instead of batch file.
• Add language files for French, German, Italian, Hungarian and
Spanish.
1_6_3 17/01/07 Java requirements
This version of software will run with all 1.5.x versions of Java runtime
environment. We recommend using the latest version of Java, which is
currently Java version 6. Enables Open GL interfaces to graphics cards to
enhance the update and graphical rendering of NetVu ObserVer.

New Features
• Print configuration dialog provided, to enable images to be arranged
on pages.

Application Updates
• Text change to reference RVRC in line with BS8418 in place of ARC
• NetVu ObserVer loss of synchronisation with EDP results in time
entries of 00:00:00 on alarms. Now resolved
• Site occasionally seen to disappear from site tree. Now resolved
• State of screen display (keyboards, server tree) is now maintained
when NetVu ObserVer launched again.
• Alarm entries shown as 0 with time 00:00:00. Now resolved
• After a period of time closure of alarms does not work, and can lead
to the EDP and NetVU ObserVer losing sync. Now resolved
• Title of last camera on products does not display in event list. Now
resolved
• In some cases alarms from the same site can be served and accepted
by more than one operator. Now resolved
• When a high volume of alarms occur in a short period of time from
one site, then this could result in not all of them being closed. Now
resolved.
• Not able to drag and drop temporary units connected on secondary
web ports to main server tree. Now resolved

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 • Now button in filtered download shows UTC time and not local time.
Now resolved
• Observer should pop up from minimized state when it receives an
alarm. Now resolved
• If alarms are opened by an alternative user, to the user the alarm is
served to, then closure of alarm does not occur correctly. Now
resolved
• System alarm messages are displayed incorrectly as System reset.
Now resolved
• Occasional sequencing of images when displays from multiple
servers were being used. – Now resolved
• Slowly increasing PC memory usage. – Now resolved
• Download events list doesn’t always provide the correct number of
events. Now resolved
• Download events would not display the most recent events when
using the End time as NOW. Now resolved
• Remote events list does not maintain correctly resulting in changes
from the items selected by the user. Now resolved
• First selected alarm from a site is not correctly displayed. Now
resolved
• Moving the mouse over the Raw telemetry command window –
mouse disappears. Now resolved
• Password access to the unit using stored passwords in the Observer
failed. Now resolved
• FTP download passwords are overwritten with incorrect information
when second download is attempted. Now resolved
•
1_6_2 10/11/06 Application Updates
Fixed issue introduced in 1.6.1 of “Connection time out message”
being displayed regularly on certain connections.
1_6_1 3/11/06 New Features
Added title time and date to saved image

Application updates
Fixed problem where NetVu ObserVer would leave ports open on the
server
Fixed problem on NetVu ObserVer RVRC operation if you were
viewing a site and an alarm came in, then the NetVu ObserVer would not be
able to close the alarm.

1_6_0 30/10/06 New functionality

• Print image adds title, time and date to top of image bar
• Print and Save image on 2CIF scales to correct aspect ratio
• Default applications start preset displays can be programmed
• Enabled selective archive of MPEG4 from Observer
• Enabled GOV mode transmission to enable replay and archiving of
MPEG4recordings.
• Improved remote streaming of images, can achieve faster live and replay
updates
• New embedded text window for retail and ATM use.
• Support for Microsoft Map point software for TransVu
• Alarm text now displayed in image title bar

Application updates
• Problems with high processor utilisation when using windows task
manager and minimise operations, corrected.
• High processor utilisation in video decode reduced.

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 • Time references between time zones on separate units corrected
• Several bug fixes to improve operation in RVRC with beta release of
EDP2.
• Corrected erroneous requested Go to times when unsuccessful
connections have been attempted
• Time references on replay between different servers corrected
• Corrected issue of alarm video files being created with no video
• Corrected issue of secure passwords operating correctly from the site
tree.
• Corrected operation in Turkish language
• Corrected support for drive image playback using USB or CA caddies
• Corrected relay operation on CIO units.
• Corrected display of VMD grids on NetVu ObserVer

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1.5.5 02/08/06 New features
• Launch of EDP database for alarm handling in RVRC
• Introduction of alarm sessions and reporting
• Capability to record automatically on alarm reception
• Secure password support
• Stay on top facility added to Embedded data and activity log floating
windows
• Support of configurable telnet ports for Observer –EDP comms to enable
avoidance of port 23
• Support for Multimode replay on Observer
• Capability to cancel current smart search added
• Site tree now scrolls when it conflicts with the alarm list.

Application updates
• Autofill of timezone with PC’s current timezonein download dialog
• Removed error whereby once a smart search had been carried out on a
camera, search results could not be cleared to carry out a second search
• Smart search Reset button functionality corrected
• Corrected Timezones display earlier than GMT (EST) display GMT on
header bar.
• Corrected issue of Observer not operating correctly with passwords on alarm
• On text and activity search, send time and date as local instead of GMT
• Improved alarm reception and handling behaviour to remove instances of
multiple serve of the same alarm and missed alarms.
• Improved decode and display speed of images by moving images into video
RAM.

1.4.15 24/4/06 5468 New Functionality

• Added camera names into the site tree.
• Language support added.
• New Preview screen on the Events page – Enables review of events in a
video window alongside the Events list
• Text Search and associated video preview capability
• Smart (Activity) Search capability to set up and review activity on a specific
camera on New DS2
• Save reference images – enables the validation of the recorded or live image
against a fixed reference image.
• Display reference images in a pop up window
• Save JPEG images to disk
• Print images to PC or network printer
• Capability to set Local Record image path and file name on Record initiation
• Facility for Electronic zoom on all views up to 800 %
• Robust alarm handling from EDP (Event Distribution Point) ensures all
alarms are serviced correctly to the most appropriate ObserVer station.
• Option to Display millisecond information on paused image window headers
• Language support as noted above.
Application updates
• Improved handling of connection while downloading
• Improvements in activity search and mask behaviour
• Correct Handling of remote events when PC has multiple network cards
• Filter start date no longer corrupted after search is completed
1.3/1.3a 15/11/05 5283 New Functionality
• Vehicle and GPS data now in separate moveable and resizable windows
• Ability to edit a sites properties after it has been added to the tree
Additional Changes
• Event list stops response improved

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 • Site Tree refresh is now context sensitive and no longer causes exceptions
• Alarm Sounds now play correctly

1.2 15/09/05 5213 New Functionality

• Alarm responding has been added to the product.
• Username and password in site database can now be saved, cuts down
prompts to the user.
• Site tree GUI refreshes when a new site folder is selected.
• Only allow one instance of the Program to be running at a time.
Additional Changes
• Additional tabs (e.g. site info and site plan) are not displayed if a connection
cannot be created and the user is not connected to any sites.
• Application shuts down correctly.
• Replay server playback viewing smoother
• Replay server no longer has a record button, so you can’t record recordings.
• Correct date now shown in image headers on servers with time offset.
• Searching events backwards with a date filter now operating as expected.
• Filter on cameras now maintains the selected list.
• Frame advance a single image in a multi-way view will now advance a single
frame.

Known Remaining Anomalies:

• On some PC’s it is possible that after long periods of running the screen display may
be seen to flicker.

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