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

1. Separately. The settings panel for of the Monitor object is in useused.
2. As a package. The Add/Edit Camera Objects dialog box is in useused.

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

1. Go to the List of cameras tab.
2. Select the number of the required camera in the drop-down list of the Number column To select all cameras registered in the system, click the All button (1).
   

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    To select all the cameras, registered in the system, click the All button (2)
3. 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
   is
   1. will be automatically displayed in the Camera column
   (3)
   1. .

   2. If multistream mode

   has been selected for a

   1. is enabled for the camera, in the Video stream drop-down list, select the number of the video stream that you want to display

   in

   1. on the Monitor (4). If no stream is

   indicated

   1. selected, the default stream is used.

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   .

   1. Configuration of the Server video streams is described in

   the section

   1. Configuration of multistream video. The selected video stream is requested when receiving a video signal both from the Server and via the Videogate.

      
      

   2. By default, the
   Video Surveillance
   1. Monitor receives a video stream through the Server. If it is necessary to get the video stream not through
   a
   1. the Server, but directly from
   a
   1. the camera
   directly
   1. , in the Connection drop-down list, select Direct
   (5)
   1. .

   2. If a video signal

   is

   1. needs to be

   thinned

   1. decimated for its

   transmitting

   1. transmission to the Client Monitor

   of the Client

   1. ,

   then

   1. select the required frame rate of the video signal

   in

   1. from the drop-down list

   of

   1. in the fps column

   (6)

   1. . 

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      title Attention!
      It is strongly not recommended to use additional

   thinning

   1. decimation and/or compression of the video

   signal which is

   1. signals displayed on the Server Monitor

   of a Server

   1. , as it will lead to the additional spending of the Server resources and deterioration of the video quality.

      
      

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   .
    The

   1. The selected

   fps

   1. FPS value

   is to

   1. should be less than the frame rate

   for

   1. of the video digitising by a video capture card. Otherwise, the frame rate of the video signal will be the same as the

   fps

   1. FPS of digitising.

      
      

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   .

   1. For the correct

   thinning

   1. decimation of a video stream compressed

   with

   1. using the

   help of

   1. H.264 or MPEG4 codecs, the

   fps

   1. FPS value

   is to

   1. should be equal to

   keyframe rate

   1. the frame rate of the key frames specified in the device settings (IP

   -camera

   1. cameras) or

   INTELLECT

   1. Intellect settings (

   see Configuring video compression section

   1. see Key frame rate settings).

      
      

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    Four

   1. 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

   1. FPS is 10 (4 x 2,

   5fps

   1. 5 FPS) for one chip.

      
      

   2. If video signal compression level

   is

   1. needs to be changed for

   transmitting

   1. transmission to the Client Monitor

   of the Client

   1. , select the required level of video signal compression

   in

   1. from the drop-down list

   of

   1. in the Compression column

   (7)

   1. .

   Compression level is increased

   1. The compression level of the video signal increases from 0 (no compression) to 5 (maximum compression).

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   .

   1. If the compression level is set for the Client,

   a

   1. the video signal on the Server

   is

   1. needs to be

   preliminary

   1. pre-decompressed,

   that results

   1. which will result in a great load increase on the CPU of the Server.

      
      

   2. To change the

   procedure

   1. algorithm of the video signal compression

   during displaying on the

   1. for transmission to the Client Monitor, select the required

   procedure

   1. algorithm of compression from the Compressor drop-down list

   (8).The

   1. . If the compressor is selected, the value in the Compression list is

   to

   1. should be selected

   if the compressor is specified (7)

   1. as well.

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   .
   Compression

   1. Recompression of the video signal is performed

   at

   1. on the

   Gate

   1. Videogate side.

      
      

   2. If the Monitor
   is to
   1. should receive live and archive video from the selected camera via the
   Gate
   1. Videogate object,
   then
   1. select the name of this object
   in
   1. from the drop-down list
   of
   1. in the Gate column
   (9)
   1. .

   2. If a video archive from the selected camera

   is to

   1. should be transmitted to the Monitor from the Backup archive object,

   then

   1. select the name of this object

   in

   1. from the drop-down list

   of

   1. in the Backup archive column

   (10)

   1. .

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   .
    In

   1. In case

   of

   1. the access to the Backup archive is performed through the

   Video gate

   1. Videogate, the specified value

   is to be

   1. should coincide with the selected value for this video camera

   while

   1. when configuring the

   Video gate object – see the

   1. Videogate object—see Selecting and configuring the cameras for the

   Long-term archive section

   1. Videogate module.

      
      

   2. If the selected video camera is used for video archive viewing from the
   external
   1. edge storage,
   then
   1. select the required
   External storage
   1. Edge storage object
   in
   1. from the
   External
   1. Edge storage drop-down list
   (11)
   1. .
   2. If the tansmission from the Backup archive object is performed via the
   Gate
   1. Videogate object,
   then
   1. select the name of this object
   in
   1. from the drop-down list
   of
   1. in the
   Gateway
   1. Videogate for Backup
   Archive column (12)
   1. archive column.
   2. 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.

   3. If there is a fisheye or

   anamorphic

   1. a panomorph lens on the camera (see Configuring fisheye cameras),

   then

   1. in the Display type

   dropdown

   1. drop-down list, select the

   way

   1. type of displaying video from the camera

   on

   1. in the

   viewing tile

   1. Surveillance window: virtual telemetry or panorama

   (13)

   1. .

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   .

   1. Conversion is enabled in the Video surveillance monitor when zooming-in (see Mouse PTZ control) or in the

   feature

   1. function menu of the Surveillance window (see Enabling fisheye).

      
      

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   .

   1. This feature

   will be invalid

   1. won't work if:

   - only

   1. only alarm cameras are displayed on the monitor (see Configuring the display mode

   for

   1. of camera

   boxes-

   1. windows);

   - overlay mode 0 or 1 is selected (see Selecting the overlay mode);

   1. PTZ control on the Video surveillance monitor is forbidden (see Setting the Telemetry control priority using the Monitor object).

   Repeat steps 2-9

   1. 
      

   2. 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.
   3. The Guid column will automatically display the unique identifier of the selected camera. This value cannot be changed, it depends on the camera number.
   4. Repeat steps a-n for all required video cameras.
4. To save all the changes, click the Apply button (143).

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