Mobi Technologies 70008 Recam Remote Monitoring - Manual (Page 12)

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Part 2
Camera Settings
The ReCam software works with many video sources simultaneously. Every video source is represented by a
Camera Window. A Camera Window can be connected to a local camera (frame grabber or USB camera),
network camera (Axis®, D-Link®, etc.), or a remote camera (another ReCam program launched on a remote
computer with a video capture device).
To create a new camera
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Click New Camera from the File menu.
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Camera Setting dialog box appears.
Camera Setting dialog box
The Camera Setting dialog box helps you control the selected video source. To open the Camera Settings dialog
box for an existing camera, select Camera Settings from the File menu.
Set a preview rate in the Preview Frame Rate box. This indicates the number of frames per second in the
camera window. The default value is 10 frames per second. This value doesn't interfere with broadcast or record
frame rate.
Local Video and Audio devices
Click to select Local Camera if you want to work with a video device connected to the computer or with a
Network camera.
Capture Method
The Capture Method radio buttons allow you to select a method of video capture.
The type of Capture Method doesn't matter for Network cameras.
Video for Windows (VfW) was released for the Windows 3.1 operating system and was optimized for capturing
movies to disk. Since then, video capture rates have risen dramatically because of the use of the PCI bus, bus
mastering controllers, and direct transfer of captured video from adapter memory to disk without data copies.
DirectShow video capture was designed to resolve the problems inherent in the VfW architecture. It provides 32-