Chapter 4 Camera Management
Viewing Live Video
To view live video, log in to the IP camera, then click View Video in the IP camera Main window menu bar. The Camera Video & Control window appears. This window displays live video from the camera and lets you control a variety of camera and display functions.
The controls that you see in the Camera Video & Control window depend on your IP camera privilege level and the configurations settings for the IP camera. Users with the Administrator privilege can access all controls. Users with the Viewer privilege do not have access to the following controls:
•Video image controls
•Motion detection controls
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Video Codec | Choose the codec for video transmission (H.264 or MJPEG). | |
You can choose H.264 only if the primary video stream (channel 1) is enabled. | ||
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Video Resolution | Choose the resolution for video transmission. The resolutions in this | |
| The default value for H.264 is 1920 x 1080. The default value for MJPEG is | |
| 704 x 480. | |
| You cannot configure a secondary stream if you configure this resolution for | |
| 1920 x 1080. | |
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Hotspot Zoom button | Click this latch button to enables the digital zoom feature, which provides | |
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| Click this button again to disable the digital zoom feature. | |
| To perform a digital zoom, engage the Hotspot Zoom button and click the | |
| video display. The first five clicks zoom the display. The sixth click returns to | |
| unzoomed display. | |
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Hotspot Pan/Tilt | Click this latch button to enable the hotspot pan/tilt feature, which lets you pan | |
button | and tilt the IP camera toward a point that you click in the video display. | |
| To perform a hotspot pan/tilt action, engage the Hotspot Pan/Tilt button, then | |
| click the video image at the location toward which you want the IP camera to | |
| pan and tilt. | |
| This feature require that the IP camera be installed with a pan/tilt mount that | |
| supports the Pelco D protocol and that pan and tilt functions are enabled. | |
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Save Snapshot button | Captures and saves a the current video image as a .gif file or a .jpg file in the | |
| location of your choice and with the file name of your choice. | |
| When you click this button, the Snapshot window appears. Click Save and | |
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| location that you want. | |
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