Documentation for Intellect 4.11.0-4.11.3. Documentation for other versions of Intellect is available too.

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It is possible to set the following parameters of the Monitor interface box:

  1. Window position.
  2. Window size.
  3. Toolbar (only in the List mode of camera’s windows displaying—see Configuring the display mode of camera windows section).
  4. Enable and disable displaying the number, name, time, menu and camera frame as well as additional info on the camera in the Surveillance window on the Video surveillance monitor.

To set the parameters of the Monitor interface box, do the following:

  1. Go to the settings panel for the Monitor interface object.
  2. In the Monitor drop-down list select the monitor number in the operating system for which coordinates are to be set further (1).
  3. Set the position of the Monitor window in one of the following ways:
    1. Manually:

      1. Set coordinates of the left upper corner of the Monitor interface box: fields X (horizontal indent from the left edge of the image) and Y (vertical indent from the upper edge of the image) (2). Coordinates are set in percentage relative to the screen size horizontally and vertically correspondingly.

      2. Set the dimensions of the Monitor interface box: W (window’s width) and H (window’s height) fields (3). Sizes are set in percentage relative to the screen size horizontally and vertically correspondingly.

      3. To display a toolbar in the Monitor interface box the List group is to be switched in the Basic settings tab and the Control panel check box is to be set (5).

        Note

         If the toolbar is on, window’s height H is automatically equal to the window’s width W. The ability to set width less than 20% is also disabled in this case: such setting is saved but not applied.

        Note

        By manually setting the coordinates you can adjust the position of the Monitor interface box on several monitors at the same time. This can be used when setting up a video wall. For example, if it is necessary to stretch one Monitor window to two computer monitors, set X=0, Y=0, W=200, H=100. If it is necessary to stretch one Monitor window to four computer monitors, set X=0, Y=0, W=200, H=200. 

        Note that if there is one computer monitor, and X and Y coordinates are greater than 100 or width and height are greater than 100, the Monitor window will not be displayed on this single monitor or will be displayed incompletely. 

        Attention!

        When configuring video wall using Windows, note that the load on video cards to which physical monitors for video wall are connected will be distributed unevenly and cannot be regulated by Intellect. 

        For an even load distribution on CPU and GPU, you should configure video wall using NVIDIA® Mosaic™ technology and NVIDIA Quadro Sync device (see NVIDIA documentation).

    2. Using a test window:
      1. Click the X button (4).
      2. Place the opened test window Specify dimensions in a position where the Monitor window should be displayed:
      3. Click the OK button. As a result, the coordinates in the X, Y, W, H fields will be set in accordance with the size and position of the test window.

  4. If moving the Monitor interface box is to be enabled, set the Allow moving checkbox (6).

    Note

    This setting is relevant only when the toolbar is in use.

  5. In the horizontal and vertical fields of the Quad splitter group enter the number of video surveillance windows which will be displayed in the Monitor in horizontal and vertical directions correspondingly (7). If one of these values is not specified then default grid of video surveillance windows depending on the selected layout is displayed on the Monitor. The maximum number of video surveillance windows vertically and horizontally is 64 and 64, respectively.

    Note

    Fields in the Quad splitter group are inactive if the Alarm cameras mode is selected (see Configuring the display mode of camera windows).

    Note

    The Quad splitter settings will be ignored if the CycleByLayouts=1 key is set, which enables paging through layouts (see Registry keys reference guide).

  6. If you want to save the ratio of the width and height of the video coming from the camera when displaying in the Surveillance window, then set the Keep camera ratio checkbox on the Basic settings tab (8). If the checkbox is set, there may be some empty space in the Surveillance window. If the checkbox is clear, the video fits the entire area of the Surveillance window while the ratio may be affected.

    Note

    Necessity to use other window proportions can occur while working with widescreen monitors, monitors of portrait orientation or in any other cases. The Monitor<monitor_id>_cw, monitor<monitor_id>_ch, monitor<monitor_id>_w43, monitor<monitor_id>_h43 registry keys are used in these cases. Detailed information about these registry keys is given in the Registry keys reference guide.

  7. Set the Smoothing checkbox to display video with greater resolution on which the ladder effect appears while displaying in the small window (9).

    Note

    When using the smoothing function, the load on the CPU of the computer where the video is displayed increases significantly (up to 30%). As a result, if the computer does not have enough resources to use this function, the video display speed (fps) decreases, the response to telemetry commands slows down, etc. So, this setting is recommended only for displaying video from analog cameras or low-resolution video.

    The function affects only displaying the video in the Video surveillance monitor. The original video stream from the camera is streamed to the archive and to detection tools.

    Video image with the Smoothing function

    Video image without the Smoothing function

  8. By default, all elements of the Surveillance window (such as number, name, time, menu and camera frame, as well as the name of video surveillance monitor) are displayed except for additional info on the camera (see Additional information on camera). To disable displaying these elements set the corresponding checkboxes clear (10).

    Note

    These parameters were set using ShowName, ShowTime, ShowTitle, ShowBorder, ShowButtons and ShowID registry keys (see Registry keys reference guide) until Intellect version 4.10.1.

    The date can be displayed on the video next to the camera time if the ShowDate registry key is set.

  9. To save all the changes, click the Apply button (11).

The parameters of the Monitor interface box are now set.

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