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To view a video image, you have to should select either a camera from a panel, or one of available layouts on the panel (see Searching for video cameras in the web client).  the Web-Client), or one of the available layouts (see Web-Client GUI).

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The Web-Client supports video playback of in the following video formats:  MJPEGMJPEG, H.264, H.265. Any All other formats are re-coded transcoded to MJPEG by on the Server. 

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H.265 video playback is possible

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in the following browsers: Safari, Microsoft Edge

browser with hardware acceleration

with HEVC video extension installed, Google Chrome version 107 and higher, if:

  • hardware acceleration is enabled in the browser settings;
  • the video card has hardware support for the H.265 codec.

You can play back playback a video in the web client with any of the 2 Web-Client with two players: jpeg JPEG and mp4MP4. If your browser supports mp4 the MP4 format, the mp4 MP4 player is used. Otherwise, your videos will be played back via with the jpeg JPEG player.

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If your layout contains several camera windowsvideo cameras, only I-frames (the key frames ) may be displayed in the H.264 streamsformat video cameras, depending on the settings (see Web-Client Configuration).  For the selected camera, each frame is If you select a specific camera, all frames will be displayed.

In MPEG videos, the MJPEG video format each frame is displayed.

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When you use Internet Explorer to toggle frames reception mode between 'I-frames only' and 'each frame' in the camera window, short video dropouts may occur.  In such a case, other browsers will show the most recent I-frame.

 If your camera is capable of multi-streaming, the lowest resolution stream will be displayed by default.

To select a stream in the web client, do as follows:

To select a displayed stream in the Web-Сlient manually (see The Video Camera Object), do the following:

  1. Click the parameters of the current stream.
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  2. Select a stream to be displayed.

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    Description

    Auto (GreenStream, default)

    The camera has two video streams: high quality video stream and low quality video stream. If the size of the cell where the video image from the camera is displayed is close to the low quality resolution with a 10% height or width margin, the video image will be displayed using the low quality stream. In other cases, the high quality video stream will be displayed

    High quality

    A high quality video stream is used in the video surveillance window (see The Video Camera Object)

    Low quality

    A low-quality video stream is used in the video surveillance window (see The Video Camera Object). When you enlarge the surveillance window, the video stream switches to a high quality video stream

    Click the parameters of the current stream.
    Select a stream to be displayed.


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A selected video stream is saved when switching between the layouts, but after the page reloads, the video stream that was specified when creating the layout will be automatically selected.

Click Image Removed or double click the image for the Image Added button to open the window in full screen view. To exit the full screen mode, click the Image Added button again the Image Removed button, or press the Esc key

To open a temporary layout from a certain camera on the layout, double right-click the camera video image. To return to the layout, double-click the video image again.