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Identification number*

Automatically

Displays the identification number of the Monitor interface object in the system

Numbers, letters, periods, hyphen, dash, and underscore

NA

A line containing numbers, letters, periods, hyphen, dash, and underscore

Depends on the number of the Monitor objects in the system

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Name*

Enter the value in the field

Sets the name of the Monitor object in the system

Latin, Cyrillic, numbers and service characters

Monitor

A line containing a sequence of any characters (letters, digits, service characters except > and < characters), case-insensitive.

Number of characters—from 1 to 60

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Disable

Set the checkbox

Disables the Monitor object in the system

Boolean type

Clear

Set—the Monitor object is disabled and isn't used

Clear—the Monitor object is enabled and used

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Display

Select the value from the list

Sets the Display parent object for the given Monitor object

Names of the Display objects registered in the system

Name of the Display parent object

Depends on the number of the Display objects in the system

The Coordinates group

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X

Enter the value in the field

Sets the X coordinate in the horizontal axis for the upper left corner of the Monitor interface window

% of the screen width

60

From 0 to M*100, where M is the number of the installed computer monitors

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Y

Enter the value in the field

Sets the Y coordinate in the vertical axis for the upper left corner of the Monitor interface window

% of the screen height

50

From 0 to M*100, where M is the number of the installed computer monitors

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W

Enter the value in the field

Sets the width of the Monitor interface window

% of the screen width

40

From 20 to 900 if control panel is enabled. Otherwise, from 0 to 900.

This restriction can be disabled using the UnlimitMonitorSize registry key (see Registry keys reference guide)

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H

Enter the value in the field

Sets the height of the Monitor object if the control panel is disabled

% of the screen width

40

From 0 to 900.

This restriction can be disabled using the UnlimitMonitorSize registry key (see Registry keys reference guide)

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Monitor

Select the value from the list

Sequence of numbers

1

From 1 to 16

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Allow moving

Set the checkbox

Allows moving the the Monitor interface window manually, if the control panel is enabled

Boolean type

Clear

Set—the manual moving is allowed

Clear—the manual moving isn't allowed

Sets the number of the surveillance windows that must be displayed horizontally on the Monitor. If the value isn't specified (the field is blank), then the default grid of the surveillance windows depending on the selected layout is displayed

From 1 to 64.

Blank fied—the default grid of the surveillance windows depending on the selected layout is displayed

Sets the number of the surveillance windows that must be displayed vertically on the Monitor. If the value isn't specified (the field is blank), then the default grid of the surveillance windows depending on the selected layout is displayed

From 1 to 64.

Blank fied—the default grid of the surveillance windows depending on the selected layout is displayed

The Basic settings tab

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Display

Select the value from the list

Sets the mode for processing the video signals from the cameras by the graphics card

Names of the display modes

Opengl

• Opengl is selected by default. This mode uses the most advanced Windows graphics libraries for rendering 2D and 3D graphics;
• Direct3D is the recommended mode that uses the most advanced Windows graphics libraries. Use this mode when it is necessary to display the video from the fisheye cameras or the signal decoded using Intel QuickSync technology;
• DirectDraw is used if the graphics card doesn't support Direct3D;
• Software—video signals aren't processed by the graphics card. It is used if Axxon PSIM is installed on a virtual platform

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Active camera

Sets in the position

Sets the display mode for an active camera window only

Boolean type

Set—the Active camera mode is enabled and used

Clear—the Active camera mode is disabled and isn't used

Alarm cameras

Sets the display mode for alarm cameras windows

Set—the Alarm cameras mode is enabled and used

Clear—the Alarm cameras mode is disabled and isn't used

List

Sets the display mode of the camera windows according to the selected layout

Set—the List mode is enabled and used

Clear—the List mode is disabled and isn't used

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Control panel

Set the checkbox

Enables the display of the toolbar on the Monitor in the List mode

Boolean type

Clear

Set—thecontrol panel is enabled and used

Clear—the control panel is disabled and isn't used

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Use button attached to camera

Set the checkbox

Enables the display of the Button objects attached to Cameras in the Surveillance windows

Boolean type

Clear

Set—Buttons are displayed in the Surveillance windows

Clear—Buttons aren't displayed

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Max

Enter the value in the field

Sets the maximum number of the cameras windows that can be simultaneously displayed on the Monitor in the Alarm cameras and List modes. If the number of alarm cameras is greater than the maximum number, the Monitor will display the number of cameras specified in the Max field

Sequence of numbers

NA

>0

Depends on the number of the cameras registered in the system. There are no restrictions on the number of cameras

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Min

Enter the value intthe field

Sets the minimum number of video cameras windows that can be displayed on the Monitor in the Alarm camers mode. If the number of the alarm cameras is less than the minimum number, the Monitor will display fewer cameras than specified in the Min field. At the same time, the Monitor fold will remain consistent with the Min field

An integer from zero and greater (for example, 0, 2, 50)

NA

>=0

Depends on the number of the cameras registered in the system. There are no restrictions on the number of cameras.

0—when there are no alarms, the camera windows aren't displayed in the Monitor window

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Keep camera ratio

Set the checkbox

Sets the ratio of the width and height of the video image in the surveillance windows on the Video surveillance monitor

Boolean type

Clear

Set—the ratio of the width and height of the video image corresponds to the ratio of the camera

Clear—video image fits the entire area of the Surveillance window, while the ratio may be affected

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Show captions

Set the checkbox

Shows the captions for the cameras of the Monitor interface window.

In large distributed systems, we recommend disabling captions on those monitors where you don't want to show captions.

This checkbox also affects the display of frames around detected objects or abandoned objects (see Smart video detection tools operation) when viewing archive:

Boolean type

Set

Set—the Captions submenu is available in the context menu of the Monitor interface window, captions are displayed. The frames generated by the VMDA smart video detectors are displayed

Clear—the Captions submenu is unavailable in the context menu of the Monitor interface window, captions aren't displayed. The frames generated by the VMDA smart video detectors aren't displayed

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Smoothing

Set the checkbox

It is used when it is required to display video with greater resolution on which the ladder effect appears when displaying in the small window.

Note. When this feature is enabled, the CPU load of the computer where the display is performed increases. We recommend displaying video from analog cameras or low-resolution video only

Boolean type

Clear

Set—smoothing is applied

Clear—smoothing isn't applied

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PTZ control

Select the value from the list

Sets the priority to control the PTZ devices using the Monitor object

Names of the PTZ devices control priorities

Low priority

• Forbidden—the option of the PTZ control using the Monitor object is disabled;
• Low priority—low priority of control;
• Normal priority—medium priority of control;
• High priority—high priority of control

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Slideshow

Enter the value in the field

Sets the period of the automatic slideshow of the camera windows when the control panel is enabled

Period in seconds (s)

Blank field

Blank field or 0—the camera windows are scrolled every 3 seconds

An integer from 1 to 600—the camera windows are scrolled at the specified interval

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Audio player

Select the value from the list

Sets the Audio player object used to playback the audio signals and export video recordings with audio from the Monitor interface

Names of the Audio player objects registered in the system

NA

Depends on the number of the Audio players registered in the system

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Select camera with grouping and search

Set the checkbox

Enables a dialog window for switching a camera in the Surveillance window in which cameras are grouped by Computer, and you can search them by their name (see Selecting camera to display in Surveillance window)

Boolean type

Set

Set—to switch to another camera, a special dialog window opens, in which cameras are grouped and there is a search line

Clear—camera is selected in the function menu of the Surveillance windows without opening a special dialog window

Set—the corresponding element is displayed in the Surveillance windows of all cameras added to the Video surveillance monitor

Clear—the corresponding element isn't displayed in the Surveillance windows on the Video surveillance monitor