Video surveillance monitor

Purpose

The video surveillance monitor is used for displaying and managing the surveillance windows. Surveillance windows display video from the specified cameras.

Functions

The video surveillance monitor implements the following functions:

1. Display of images from the surveillance cameras.
2. Control of the surveillance modes.
3. Graphic processing of video images coming from cameras
4. Management of video recording from the surveillance cameras.
5. Work with video archives.
6. Display of information about camera status.

Interface description

The figure shows the video surveillance monitor interface.

The video surveillance monitor window consists of a field for displaying the surveillance windows and the toolbar above it with the following items:

1. The buttons are used to change the number of the displayed surveillance windows on the video surveillance monitor.
   

   Note

   You can determine the video image size after decompression in the video surveillance monitor using the Decompressor.TrueResize parameter of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AxxonSoft\Axxon PSIM\Video registry key (see Registry keys reference guide).

2. The  button is used to manage the layouts.
3. The buttons are used to switch the surveillance windows.
4. The field displays the current time and date.
   

   Note

   You can change the format for displaying the archive date and time. To do this, go to the security zone object on the Date and time format tab (see The Settings panel of the Security zone object). After you select the required format, you must restart Axxon PSIM.

   If the Debug mode is enabled in Axxon PSIM (see The Debug window), then information about the transmitted video stream is displayed instead of the date and time (see Frame rate settings).

Every surveillance window has a function menu to access such functions as arming and disarming the camera, image processing, management of video recording, frame exporting and printing, and so on. The surveillance window can also display the buttons for performing the specified actions when you click them:

Left-click the camera number in the surveillance window to display the function menu (see the figure below).
 

When you hover the mouse cursor over the control elements in the video surveillance monitor, the tooltips are displayed. The period of their display can be set using the TT_INITIAL and TT_AUTOPOP parameters of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AxxonSoft\Axxon PSIM\Video registry key (see Registry keys reference guide).

The key combinations for convenient operation of the video surveillance monitor and surveillance windows are listed in the table.