Selecting and configuring video cameras

You can select and configure cameras for displaying in the Monitor interface window in two ways:

Separately. The settings panel of the Monitor object is used.
As a package. The Add/Edit Camera Objects dialog box is used.

Note

Order of selecting video cameras as a package to display in the Monitor interface box is described in Selecting and configuring video cameras in bulk.

To select video cameras on the settings panel of the Monitor object, do the following:

Go to the List of cameras tab.
To select all cameras registered in the system, click the All button (1).
To add a separate camera, configure the following settings in table (2):
1. From the drop-down list in the Number column, select the number of the required camera.
2. As a result, the name of the selected camera will be automatically displayed in the Camera column.
3. If multistream mode is enabled for the camera, in the Video stream drop-down list, select the number of the video stream that you want to display on the Monitor (4). If no stream is selected, the default stream is used.
  Note
  Configuration of the Server video streams is described in Configuration of multistream video. The selected video stream is requested when receiving a video signal both from the Server and via the Videogate.
4. By default, the Monitor receives a video stream through the Server. If it is necessary to get the video stream not through the Server, but directly from the camera, in the Connection drop-down list, select Direct.
5. If a video signal needs to be decimated for its transmission to the Client Monitor, select the required frame rate of the video signal from the drop-down list in the fps column.
  Attention!
  It is strongly not recommended to use additional decimation and/or compression of the video signals displayed on the Server Monitor, as it will lead to the additional spending of the Server resources and deterioration of the video quality.
  Note
  The selected FPS value should be less than the frame rate of the video digitising by a video capture card. Otherwise, the frame rate of the video signal will be the same as the FPS of digitising.
  Note
  For the correct decimation of a video stream compressed using the H.264 or MPEG4 codecs, the FPS value should be equal to the frame rate of the key frames specified in the device settings (IP cameras) or Intellect settings (see Key frame rate settings).
  Note
  Four streams for a chip are processed on SC300Q16 (FX4) video capture card. If the chip processes a stream without a signal (blue screen), then the total FPS is 10 (4 x 2,5 FPS) for one chip.
6. If video signal compression level needs to be changed for transmission to the Client Monitor, select the required level of video signal compression from the drop-down list in the Compression column. The compression level of the video signal increases from 0 (no compression) to 5 (maximum compression).
  Note
  If the compression level is set for the Client, the video signal on the Server needs to be pre-decompressed, which will result in a great load increase on the CPU of the Server.
7. To change the algorithm of the video signal compression for transmission to the Client Monitor, select the required algorithm of compression from the Compressor drop-down list. If the compressor is selected, the value in the Compression list is should be selected as well.
  Note
  Recompression of the video signal is performed on the Videogate side.
8. If the Monitor should receive live and archive video from the selected camera via the Videogate object, select the name of this object from the drop-down list in the Gate column.
9. If a video archive from the selected camera should be transmitted to the Monitor from the Backup archive object, select the name of this object from the drop-down list in the Backup archive column.
  Note
  In case the access to the Backup archive is performed through the Videogate, the specified value should coincide with the selected value for this video camera when configuring the Videogate object—see Selecting and configuring the cameras for the Videogate module.
10. If the selected video camera is used for video archive viewing from the edge storage, select the required Edge storage object from the Edge storage drop-down list.
11. If the tansmission from the Backup archive object is performed via the Videogate object, select the name of this object from the drop-down list in the Videogate for Backup archive column.
12. To enable smart search in the archive of the corresponding camera, select the VMDA metadata storage object corresponding to the VMDA tracks database intended to be used for smart search from the VMDA metadata storage drop-down list.
13. If there is a fisheye or a panomorph lens on the camera (see Configuring fisheye cameras), in the Display type drop-down list, select the type of displaying video from the camera in the Surveillance window: virtual telemetry or panorama.
  Note
  Conversion is enabled in the Video surveillance monitor when zooming-in (see Mouse PTZ control) or in the function menu of the Surveillance window (see Enabling fisheye).
  Note
  This feature won't work if:
  - only alarm cameras are displayed on the monitor (see Configuring the display mode of camera windows);
  - PTZ control on the Video surveillance monitor is forbidden (see Setting the Telemetry control priority using the Monitor object).
14. If it is necessary to start macros from the camera function menu in the Surveillance window, select the corresponding Macro objects from the Macro 1 and Macro 2 lists. See also Creating and using macros.
15. The Guid column will automatically display the unique identifier of the selected camera. This value cannot be changed, it depends on the camera number.
16. Repeat steps a-n for all required video cameras.
To save all changes, click the Apply button (3).

Video cameras on the settings panel of the Monitor object are now selected.

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