Setting the Alarm Buffer

— Alarm buffer Menu

When you click in the Administrator menu, the Alarm buffer menu appears.

You can set the Pre-alarm image and audio (the image and audio before the alarm detection) and the Post - alarm image and audio. These can be set when Alarm sending of FTP client menu or Alarm recording of Image memory menu is set to On, besides when Use alarm buffer is selected.

Camera the Administrating

Mode

Displays the video codec selected in the Video codec tab of the Camera menu.

Note

You cannot set the alarm buffer when H.264 is selected in the Video codec tab of the Camera menu.

Codec

Only the currently available codec(s) are active. Select the video codec to be used for the alarm buffer.

Note

When Dual codec is selected in the Video codec tab of the Camera menu and if you select here a video codec different from the priority video codec specified for Dual codec, the bit rate and frame rate for sending/ recording via the alarm buffer may be lower than the set values.

Recording capacity

Displays the maximum recording capacity of the alarm buffer in the present camera setting of the video mode, image size, bit rate and frame rate.

Pre-alarm period: Displays the maximum recording capacity of image/audio before alarm detection.

Post-alarm period: Displays the maximum recording capacity of image/audio after alarm detection.

Recording time

Set the recording time for the Pre-alarm image/audio and Post alarm image/audio.

Pre-alarm period: Type the recording time of the image/audio before alarm detection.

Post-alarm period: Type the recording time of the image/audio after alarm detection.

Note

The value of Recording capacity differs depending on the image size and image quality settings in the Camera menu.

OK/Cancel

See “Buttons common to every menu” on page 30.

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