The settings panel of the RTSP Server object is shown in the figure. The tables below describe the setting parameters of the RTSP Server system object.
The Basic settings tab
№ | Parameter | Method for setting the parameter value | Parameter description | Representation | Default value | Value range |
1 | The Identification number* | Automatically | Displays the identification number of the RTSP Server object in the video surveillance system | Digits, letters, periods, hyphen, dash, and underscore | NA | Depends on the number of the RTSP Server objects in the video surveillance system |
2 | The Name* | Enter the value in the field | Determines the name of the RTSP Server object in the video surveillance system | Latin alphabet, Cyrillic, digits and service characters | RTSP Server | A line containing a sequence of any characters (letters, digits, service characters except > and < characters), case-insensitive. Number of characters—from 1 to 60 |
3 | The Disable | Set the checkbox | Disables the RTSP Server object in the video surveillance system | Boolean type | Clear | Set—the RTSP Server object is disabled and isn't used Clear—the RTSP Server object is enabled and used |
4 | The Computer | Select the value from the list | Sets the Computer parent object to which the given RTSP Server object belongs | Names of the Computer objects registered in the system | Name of the Computer parent object | Depends on the number of servers in the video surveillance system with distributed architecture |
| The Basic settings tab | ||||||
5 | The Cameras table | |||||
The Added | Set the checkbox | Specifies the cameras, the video signals from which must be transmitted to the remote workstations | Boolean type | Clear | Set—the video stream can be viewed at a remote workstation Clear—the video stream cannot be viewed at a remote workstation | |
The Number | Automatically | Displays the identification number of the Camera object in the system | Identification numbers of the Camera objects registered in the system | NA | Depends on the number of the Camera objects registered in the system | |
The Name | Automatically | Determines the name of the Camera object in the video surveillance system | Names of the Camera objects registered in the system | NA | Depends on the number of the Camera objects registered in the system | |
The Gate | Select the value from the list | Specifies the videogate through which video is received from the camera | Names of the Videogate objects registered in the system | NA | Depends on the number of the Videogate objects registered in the system | |
The Port | Enter the value in the field | Determines the port through which the video signal is transmitted. Note. This column is available only if you set the Multicast checkbox. Specified ports aren't addressed directly. Use the RTSP port to get the video data from all cameras in the Multicast mode | Sequence of numbers | NA | Any available unused port numbers. The number of ports is determined by the system administrator | |
| The Backup archive column | Select the value from the list | Specifies the backup archive from which the archive is received for the camera | Names of the Backup archive objects registered in the system | NA | Depends on the number of the Backup archive objects registered in the system | |
| 6 | The Unicast checkbox | Set the checkbox | Enables the Unicast transmission mode | Boolean type | Set | Set—the video is transmitted in the Unicast mode Clear—the video isn't transmitted in the Unicast mode |
7 | The RTSP port | Enter the value in the field | Determines the port through which the video signal is transmitted | Sequence of numbers | 554 | Any available unused port numbers. The number of ports is specified by the system administrator |
| 8 | The HTTP port | Enter the value in the field | Determines the port that must be used for transmitting the video signal through the HTTP protocol | Sequence of numbers | 8082 | Any available unused port numbers. The number of ports is specified by the system administrator |
| 9 | The Multicast | Set the checkbox | Enables video transmission through different RTSP ports. The Multicast mode allows reducing the server load by reducing the amount of the transmitted data | Boolean type | Clear | Set—the video is transmitted in the Multicast mode Clear—the video isn't transmitted in the Multicast mode |
10 | The Receiver IP address | Enter the value in the field | Determines the IP address from which the video is transmitted in the Multicast mode | IP address | 224.0.1.150 | From 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255 |
| 11 | The RTSP port field | Enter the value in the field | Determines the port number through which the video signal is transmitted in the Multicast mode. When you request the video data from the camera via the RTSP protocol, you must specify exactly this port. The system forwards the request to the port of the required camera | Sequence of numbers | 555 | Any available unused port numbers. The number of ports is specified by the system administrator |
*Name of the element isn't displayed in the settings panel of the given object
The Advanced settings tab
№ | Parameter | Method for setting the parameter value | Parameter description | Representation | Default value | Value range |
| 1 | The VLC player compatibility mode checkbox | Set the checkbox | Enables sending the current time to VLC Media Player instead of the frame time | Boolean type | Clear | Set—the current time is sent to VLC Media Player Clear—the frame time is sent to VLC Media Player |
| 2 | The ECHD compatibility mode checkbox | Set the checkbox | Enables the compatibility mode with ECHD. The mode is required for the correct operation of navigation through the archive if the RTSP server is used to broadcast video data to the ECHD system | Boolean type | Clear | Set—the ECHD compatibility mode is enabled Clear—the ECHD compatibility mode is disabled |
| 3 | The Use captions track checkbox | Set the checkbox | Enables sending the video captions along with video image through the RTSP server | Boolean type | Clear | Set—if there are captions on the video image, they are sent to the receiving app Clear—the video captions aren't sent through the RTSP server |
| 4 | The Hot connection mode checkbox | Set the checkbox | Eliminates a delay of several seconds when requesting a video via RTSP | Boolean type | Clear | Set—when you request video via RTSP, the delay is minimum (~1 sec) Clear—when you request video via RTSP, the delay is ~1–5 sec |
| 5 | The Source IP interface list | Select the value from the list | Determines the name of the network interface that must be used to transmit the RTSP server | Names of the network interfaces | ANY | The list of the available computer network interfaces. ANY—the default network interface is used |
| The NAT settings group | ||||||
| 6 | The IP address field | Enter the value in the field | Determines the IP address of the router that performs the NAT transmission | IP address | NA | IP addresses range for the local network |
| 7 | The Port field | Enter the value in the field | Determines the port of the router that performs the NAT transmission | Non-negative integers | 0 | From 0 to 65535 |
| The Load balancing group | ||||||
| 8 | The Number of threads (min/) field | Enter the value in the field | Determines the initial number of threads that are created when the RTSP server is started | Non-negative integers | 1 | >=0 |
| 9 | The Number of threads (/max) field | Enter the value in the field | Determines the maximum allowed number of threads that can be created. If there are too many threads, server rejects additional connections | Non-negative integers | 100 | >=0 |
| 10 | The Number of connections per thread field | Enter the value in the field | Determines the maximum number of client connections per thread, with equal distribution. If this parameter is exceeded, a new thread is created | Non-negative integers | 20 | >=0 |