Milestone M50 - Manual (Page 196)

Milestone Husky M30/M50 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 196 Misc concepts and tasks
1. In the Management Application navigation pane, expand Advanced Configuration, and
expand Cameras and Storage Information.
2. Select the relevant camera to view live video from that camera. Above the live video, you find
a summary of the most important properties for the selected camera. Below the live video, you
find information about the camera's resolution and average image file size. For cameras using
MPEG or H.264, you also see the bit rate in Mbit/second.
IMPORTANT: Viewing of live video in the Management Application may under certain circumstances
affect any simultaneous recording from the relevant camera. Especially three scenarios are important
to consider:
- Some cameras supporting multistreaming may halve their frame rate or respond with other negative
effects if you open a second stream.
- If a camera delivers live video in a very high quality, de-coding of images may increase the load on
the Recording Server service, which may in turn affect ongoing recordings negatively.
- Cameras that do not support multiple simultaneous video streams cannot connect to the surveillance
server and the Management Application at the same time. Therefore, Milestone recommends that you
stop (see "Start and stop services" on page 170) the Recording Server service when you configure
such devices for motion detection and PTZ. See also View video from cameras in Management
Application (on page 195).