Milestone Smart Client 3.6 User Manual

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Milestone XProtect Smart Client 3.6; User’s Manual

2.

Release the mouse button over the required position.

Tip: Note that the position gets a thin orange border. The orange border indicates that

the position is used for a hotspot; the orange border will also be evident when using the

view on the Browse and Live tabs.

Thin orange border indicates hotspot

3.

When the hotspot position is selected, you are able to specify its properties in the Setup

tab’s Properties section:

Image Quality: The setting determines the quality of the images when viewed,

but also affects bandwidth usage. If your Smart Client is used over the internet,

over a slow network connection, or if for other reasons you need to limit bandwidth
use, image quality can be reduced on the server side by selecting e.g. Low or

Medium.


When selecting a reduced image quality, images are re-encoded on the server to a

JPEG format along the following lines:

o

Full: The default setting, providing the full quality of the original image.

o

SuperHigh (for megapixel): Re-encoding to an image output width of 640

pixels (VGA) and a JPEG quality level of 25%.

o

High: Re-encoding to an image output width of 320 pixels (QVGA) and a

JPEG quality level of 25%.

o

Medium: Re-encoding to an image output width of 200 pixels and a JPEG

quality level of 25%.

o

Low: Re-encoding to an image output width of 160 pixels and a JPEG

quality level of 20%.

Image height will scale according to the width and the aspect ratio of the original

image.


Your image quality selection will apply for live as well as recorded video, and for

JPEG as well as MPEG. For MPEG, however, only keyframes will be re-encoded

when viewing live video, whereas all images will be re-encoded when viewing
recorded video.

Note: When viewing live video, you can double-click a carousel (or any other

camera position in a view) to enlarge it (see page 58 or 72). When you do this,
video from cameras included in the carousel is by default displayed in full quality,

regardless of your image quality selection. If you want to make sure that the

selected image quality also applies when enlarged, select the Keep when
maximized
box, located immediately below the Image Quality setting.

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