Milestone Smart Client 3.6 - Manual (Page 37)

Milestone XProtect Smart Client 3.6; User’s Manual
recordings. Information about how to add such special content to views in your Smart Client will be
available in the documentation for the add-on product. Consult your surveillance system
administrator if in doubt
Adjusting Camera Properties
In the Setup tab’s Properties section, you are able to adjust
a number of settings for individual cameras. To adjust a
camera’s properties, select the required camera in the view
(the selected position will be indicated by a bold border),
then make the adjustments in the Properties section.
Camera Name
The Camera Name field displays the name of the selected
camera. The field is read-only.
Image Quality & Keep When
Maximized
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 from the selected camera are re-encoded to a
JPEG format on the surveillance system server before being sent to the Smart Client. Re-encoding
takes place along the following lines:
• Full: The default setting, providing the full quality of the original image.
• SuperHigh (for megapixel): Re-encoding to an image output width of 640 pixels (VGA)
and a JPEG quality level of 25%.
• High: Re-encoding to an image output width of 320 pixels (QVGA) and a JPEG quality level
of 25%.
• Medium: Re-encoding to an image output width of 200 pixels and a JPEG quality level of
25%.
• Low: Re-encoding to an image output width of 160 pixels and a JPEG quality level of 20%.
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: While using a reduced image quality helps limit bandwidth use, it will—due to the need for
re-encoding images—use additional resources on the surveillance system server.
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