Documentation for Axxon PSIM 2.0. Documentation for other versions of PSIM is available too.

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Note

This setting is only available in the extended mode of the Export window. If the setting isn't displayed, click the >> button in the bottom right corner to display it.

Selecting the format of the exported file

Configuring the Export mode is selecting the format of a file (container type) and codec (original or specified recompression):

Different combinations of settings and their limitations are described in the table:

Container typeCodecResultLimitations and features
Without data conversionOriginal format

Export is performed in the format of Axxon PSIM file system, that is, the format in which archive is stored on a disk

Export without conversion is not available for external repositories by default. For this option to be available, it is necessary to configure the EnabledFsForIpStorage registry key (see Registry keys reference guide).

  1. The following functions are NOT available in this mode:
    • Watermark is not added to the video image.

    • Captions enabling and disabling are not available when exporting. If an archive recording has captions, they will be exported. When switching to the without data conversion position, the Add captions checkbox is set automatically and becomes unavailable for editing.

    • The conversion is not available—the Display as on monitor screen checkbox is unavailable.

    • Export in the .exe format is not available
AVI / MKV / MP4 / FLV / ASFOriginal formatExport to the selected format is performed without recompression (without changing of the codec)Watermark is added to the video image. It is displayed over the video image when playing back the video archive in the Axxon Player utility (see Watermarks)
AVI / MKV / MP4 / FLV / ASFRecompressionExport to the selected format with the selected audio and video codec. Video codec is specified using the Video format button, audio codec is specified using the Audio format button (described below)

Attention!

The availability of the codec (recompression method) depends on the selected container (file format).

Available codecs when exporting with recompression:

Codec / containerAVIASFFLV MKVMP4
Intel IYUV+----
Microsoft Video 1++---
x264+++++
Lagarith Lossless++---
MPEG4++-++
Full Frames +- - - - 

Features:

  • If fisheye conversion, rotation, or scaling is applied to the image in the Surveillance window, then in order to export the video using this conversion, it is necessary to set the Display as on monitor screen checkbox (see Image processing). The video is stored in the archive in the original format, and when being exported, the video angle is selected at the current moment for the camera in the Surveillance window.
  • Watermark is added to the video image. It is displayed over the video image when playing back the video archive in the Axxon Player utility (see Watermarks).
  • The 100 FPS value is displayed in the properties of the exported AVI file. This value is set by the software, as the frames of the original video can be arranged unevenly. When exporting, frames are distributed so that the final AVI file is played back smoothly.
  • The size of the exported AVI file is limited to 1.97 GB. For other formats and modes, there is no size limit.
  • By default, if the selected export period contains a recording from several streams that have different video resolutions, then each video fragment of such a stream is exported to a separate file. It is possible to splice such video fragments into one file using the UseFfmpegConcat registry key (for details, see Registry keys reference guide). In this case, the resulting exported file is in MKV format regardless of the selected container type

Video converting format

When you click the Video format button, the dialog window opens in which you must select the codec and compression ratio.

Features of recompression for different formats:

  • Recompression without compression is only available for AVI container.
  • When you recompress to Xvid MPEG4 Codec/Microsoft Video 1 format, the resulting exported file can be several seconds longer.
  • When you recompress to x264vfw−H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC codec format, the first few seconds in the resulting exported file can be lost.
  • When you recompress to Microsoft Video 1 format, click the Configure button and move the Temporal Quality Ratio slider to the maximum value (1), and select the maximum Compression Quality (slider to 100):


Audio converting format

When you click the Audio format button, the dialog box opens in which you must select the format of the audio file and the set of sound quality parameters or ready settings profile.

Note

For the ASF and MKV containers, when you export with recompression, you must select an attribute value of 8,000 kHz or less in the PCM audio format parameter.


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