Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 31)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 31 Get to know the XProtect Smart
Client
About live video
Particular user rights may be required in order to access the Live tab. To view live video in the
XProtect Smart Client, the surveillance system's recording server must be running. Depending on your
user rights, access to viewing live video from some cameras may be restricted.
Example: Live tab displaying video from four cameras
The Live tab (see "The Live tab" on page 36) offers you numerous features, including audio (on page
64), carousels (on page 90), hotspots (on page 84), Matrix, camera shortcut menus, pan-tilt-zoom
(PTZ) (see "PTZ and 360º lens images" on page 111) control, digital zoom, events activation, output
activation, quick playback, and more.
Even though you can see live video from a camera on the Live tab, the video stream from the camera
is not necessarily being recorded. Video is normally recorded as defined by the surveillance system
server. Typically, recording takes place according to a schedule (for example, every morning from
10.00 to 11.30) and/or whenever the surveillance system detects special events (for example, motion
generated by a person entering a room, a sensor registering that a window is being opened, or
manually activating an event in your XProtect Smart Client). Typically, you view recorded video on the
Playback tab, but you can also view it on the Live tab (see "View recorded video using independent
playback" on page 117).
If title bars have been enabled in the camera properties (see "Camera settings" on page 57) in setup
mode, the title bar above the camera's image displays Recording if video is being recorded.
Tip: To maximize video from a particular position in a view, double-click the camera position. To return
to normal view, simply double-click the camera position again.
You may notice that sometimes the camera is recording for short periods only. This is because the
surveillance system server may have been configured to only record the video stream from a camera
when there is motion, when a door is open, or similar, which can lead to many short periods of
recordings.
You can therefore still select Start Recording for # Minutes even though the video stream from a
camera is already being recorded; this way you can make sure that the video stream from the camera
will be recorded without interruption for the specified number of minutes.