The settings panel of the RTSP Server object

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* field	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* field	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 checkbox	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 drop-down list	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 column	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 column	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 column	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 column	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 column	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 field	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 field	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 checkbox	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 field	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

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