Introducing the new Arecont Vision camera Web
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1. 1600 App mw Apply amp make default application from www videolan org during the install make certain that the Mozilla plugin option is checked to install the required plugin to the Firefox browser MJPEG over HTTP this is the default browser display option No plug in is required as most browsers can decode MJPEG images Video to Screen when selected this button will scale the full field of view image to fit the browser window When in default unselected images will be displayed in the browser at their native resolution and may not allow viewing of the full field of view Control video with Mouse these radio buttons allow control of various functions using the mouse to select them on screen Whichever function is selected can be controlled by left clicking in the image with the mouse and dragging to select an image region relevant to the corresponding control function No Control disables mouse control of these functions PTZ will open a zoom window for the selected region Double clicking in the image will restore the image to default T E A e J ya TT ER E BF s H i a a A ee OS ee ROI Reference will create a custom exposure reference using the selected region to customize backlight compensation for difficult exposure scenes Motion detection Mask will allow masking the selected image regions from motion detection when the motion detection on the camera is active Privac2. and multicast settings for H 264 video streaming from the camera RTSP Unicast port this numeric field allows configuration of the application port for RTSP Unicast video streams Default is 554 valid values that can be set are 1 65535 Setting up bit rate control for our current generation single sensor cameras H 264 RTSP RTP AVP stream Note Constant bit rate control features automatically adjust image RTSP Unicast port 554 Variable Bitrate Control compression to keep the bit rate output of the camera at the rate level set by H 264 Quality 36 16 29 the user For constant bit rate control if the bit rate value is configured to a z Enable Rate Limit Rate limit 0 65535 kbps 10000 very low value this would cause the camera to automatically increase Constant Bitrate Control compression to maintain the bit rate at the configured limit In this situation Bitrate 0 65535 kbps 0 image quality will be affected as compression automatically increases or Frames per second 28 decreases f xt I a Mo 1 16 Enable Microphone Variable Bitrate Control when this radio button is selected the camera will Preview Apply maintain the Quality setting configured There may be variation in the bit rate Link for external media players rtsp 210 20 3 172 h264 sdp7res halfax0 0ay0 0 ee output from the camera because this mode ignores bit rate apt wil app anges te Ue emer CHa Sve all setting to
3. controls the color saturation of the image Gamma 61 Blue manual control for blue color level Flip Image Flexible Crappang oe saan eae Red manual control for red color level Casing Mode Ligh tang 50Hz amp BORE Tluminaton E Automatic Indoor Dutdoor Mixed Gamma manual control for Gamma level affects the overall luminance of the image Radio buttons allow selection or enabling of the following features Flip Image allows image to be digitally flipped 180 Flexible Cropping when selected this will enable the flexible cropping feature of the camera Auto Exposure enables or disables the electronic auto exposure function of the camera it is recommended this be left on for most applications unselecting disabling will prevent the camera from adjusting to changing illumination and exposure values in the image Casino Mode this feature is only available on the AV2255 model cameras when enabled it will override the configured Exposure mode on the camera to keep frame rate output from dropping below 30 fps Note In low light there will be increased image noise and degraded image quality since the camera cannot increase exposure time to compensate when this mode is active Lighting used to select local AC power frequency This can help prevent flicker caused by oscillation frequency of indoor lighting Options are 50Hz Europe or 60Hz US Japan Illumination controls the auto white balance of the camera Radio butto
4. flash in administration section to save ail changes H 264 Quality this field allows configuration of the H 264 image quality setting for variable bit rate control Setting a lower value results in lower image quality higher value results in higher image quality Enable Rate Limit this button enables variable bit rate control to function like the constant bit rate control when bit rate rises above the level set Rate limit allows setting of the rate level Constant bit rate control will enable constant bit rate control option The camera will automatically adjust compression to keep bit rate at the level set Bitrate this numeric field allows setting the bit rate for constant bit rate control Frames per second allows setting a frame rate for the camera video stream Reducing the frame rate is another way to control bandwidth use from the camera the tradeoff is obvious reduction of video frame rate Preview this button will not apply the configured settings to the camera Clicking this button will modify the H 264 request string based on current settings in the webpage for pasting into a 3 party media player like VLC This button essentially just updates the request string to include any changes made by the user since they started the current connection to the camera web page Apply this button will apply the configured H 264 settings to the camera for the current web page connection This button will not save the current settings
5. focus of the scene area within the selected focus window is achieved Stop this button will stop the focus procedure in process when pressed Focus Aid this field cannot be changed and shows an approximate numeric value relevant to the level of focus achieved in a given field of view A higher value means a better level of focus throughout the image a lower value means the image is less focused Update Focus Aid when pressed this button will update the Focus Aid window the value displayed in the window can sometimes lag behind the actual focus value achieved in the image measured focus is affected by image noise and illumination change Note regarding the focus reference window the color will change as the image is auto or manually focused As better focus is achieved you will also see the value of the focus aid increase as the image gets less focused this value will fall e Focus window GREEN indicates getting better focus e Focus window turning RED indicates going out of focus e Focus window turning YELLOW indicates no change from the original focus setting e Focus window turning Grey indicates the focus procedure is done Network iin IP Assignment these settings allow configuration of the camera IP address and IP Address 197 168 2 15 related options Subnet Mask 0 0 0 0 Default Gateway 0 0 0 0 IP Address the camera IP address can be manually configured in this field Apply IP Options Subnet Mask
6. on the network could result in increased load on the local network segment Zoom amp Focus Toom amp Focus This menu controls the remote focus and zoom features available in the MegaDome 2 camera family ZOOM 20 5 1 20 5 1 amp Enable Auto Focus after zo Zoom these buttons allow manual zoom of the remote varifocal zoom lens on the Focus 20 5 1 camera Options are or in stepped increments of 20 5 or 1 Smaller values E e make finer zoom increments larger values make larger zoom increments Full range Fous Short range Focus Stop Enable Auto Focus after zoom radio button when selected will activate the Focus Ad camera s automatic focus process following any changes made to the lens zoom Update Focus Aid The selected or default focus window will flash red and green as the auto focus process proceeds and will be white when it is complete Focus these buttons allow manual focus adjustment of the camera Options are or in stepped increments of 20 5 or 1 Smaller values make finer focus increments larger values make coarser focus increments Full range Focus button when selected auto focuses the camera using the entire image as reference Focus process will stop when best focus balance of the full scene content is achieved Short range Focus button when selected auto focuses the camera using the selected or default focus window as a focus reference Focus process will stop when best
7. Introducing the new Arecont Vision camera Web interface Arecont Vision is also introducing a new web interface for our cameras Currently SurroundVideo products do not have this new feature In addition to a newer cleaner look this interface offers two different methods of menu navigation and controls for a number of new features Menu Navigation The new interface allows the same type of tabbed menu browsing as did older model cameras at the top of the web interface But features a new look and better defined buttons Image Video H 264 Focus Network Motion Detection Privacy Mask Administration About Clicking on any button will cause the menu displayed on the left side of the page to jump to the settings section for the selected function In addition the settings menus can also be browsed a second way scrolling the menu window on the left which allows access to the various settings menus sequentially Image Menu Slider bars and numeric text boxes allow control of the following image features Bnghtness Lees Lees oe Brightness controls the overall brightness of the camera image and works in haid conjunction with the exposure controls to maintain the image brightness i Q Saturation Sharpness controls sharpness and edge definition of the image Setting this to higher levels may make overall image to appear a bit softer while causing lines and edges in the image to look smoother Saturation
8. camera About This menu displays important information about the camera model being viewed About Camera Type What model and features Camera Type 52554M Firmware 65202 JPEG Engine 5703 Firmware Version installed on the camera Met Version 5381 MAC Address 00 1A 07 04 89 78 JPEG Engine Hardware version installed on the camera Net Version Net version installed on the camera MAC Address Physical address Serial number of the camera
9. e Camera Name field and creating an alternate HTTP access port in the Second HTTP port field Motion Detection Motion Detection Enable radio button enables the motion detection feature when selected When this button is selected no additional changes can be made to the other settings in Enabie 3 Extended this menu fone Size Extended radio button enables the extended motion detection from default 64 to 1024 detection zones for enhanced detection sensitivity Zone Size this slider bar and numeric field determine the size of the detection zone grid displayed when motion detection feature is enabled Note if the zone size is set too small for image sensor pixel resolution the motion detection grid can be made smaller than the actual image size Areas not covered by the grid will not be monitored for motion Detail this slider bar and numeric field determines the size of each zone displayed by the motion detection grid contains sub zones the number of which is determined by the zone size setting up to 32x32 pixels This setting configures the sensitivity of the motion detection to the size of objects in the image moving through the zone Higher values will trigger motion only for larger objects moving through the zone lower values will cause detection of smaller objects in the zone increasing sensitivity to smaller size objects moving through the image Level threshold this slider bar and numeric field determines th
10. e sensitivity to brightness changes between dark and light objects within each grid zone As example Detail will set the size of the object being detected within the zone level sets the duration that movement must be maintained to trigger motion detection Lower settings can increase false motion alarms caused by image noise higher settings will require more movement to trigger a motion event Motion Sensitivity this slider bar and numeric field determines the sensitivity to sudden overall brightness changes in the image This setting can be useful to prevent false motion alarms due to sudden exposure changes such as car head lights from triggering motion detection Larger values will disregard larger changes affecting the entire image smaller values will make motion detection more sensitive to large changes in the image Note the motion mask setting under the Video menus requires Enable to be selected as on before areas can be masked to prevent motion detection in selected zones Privacy Privacy Enable Privacy Mask this radio button when selected will enable any privacy Enable Privacy Mask masks that have been configured by the Privacy Mask function in the Video AEA Da mers tea veto menu Note masked areas of an image are transmitted with the mask in place it is part of the video and cannot be turned off or removed from video that is being viewed or recorded after transmission Administration Access Control this me
11. field control the switching point when the camera switches from Day color into Night black amp white mode Higher values cause the camera to stay in Day mode at lower illumination levels lower values will cause the camera to switch to Night mode in higher illumination Toggle Guard this slider bar and numeric field control the level of brightness required to switch from Night black amp white into Day color mode Higher values will cause the camera to stay in Night black amp white mode longer than lower values as illumination levels rise Toggle Guard should be adjusted to prevent the mode from toggling between Night and Day modes in areas where transitional lighting exists in the scene Focus after D N switching this radio button enables the camera to automatically re focus after switching between Day and Night modes Enable Auto Iris this radio button enables the DC auto iris control function on the camera When this option is selected the Gain slider bar and numeric field control the manual opening or closing of the lens aperture The higher the gain setting the later the auto iris will open as illumination levels decrease Binning these radio buttons control operation of the binning function when using a 3 5 or 1Omp camera model Note this option is only available on AV3255 amp AV5255 model cameras Binning in day mode when selected this radio button will
12. ns allow selection of one of 4 AWB options Automatic is setting default and works for most situations Indoor will compensate for excessive red levels of illumination Outdoor will compensate for excessive blue levels of illumination Mix will compensate for excessive red and blue levels of illumination Exposure Mode Exposure Mode settings allows radio button selection for one of 5 low light igh Speed i i r i Speed modes This setting is responsible for the camera exposure response to changing valey Hooneght TM illumination levels The settings automatically controlled under these groupings eee include exposure and gain control backlight compensation and noise reduction Low light noise filer 3 oO These functions are grouped together into these preset modes and will automatically adjust at rates determined by the Exposure Mode selected High Speed This mode enables manual setting of exposure time between 1 and 80ms Shorter exposure times reduce motion blur for applications such as monitoring fast moving objects and reading license plates The trade off is an increased level of noise Exposure time is user configurable in this mode using the Exposure slider bar on the Exposure Mode panel This is the only low light mode that allows for user selectable exposure time and this drop menu will be grayed out when any of the other modes are selected It is recommended that this mode be used only when
13. nu allows setting password security on the camera to restrict access to camera settings menus and or access to viewing the video Access Control admin password set a password here to restrict access to the camera menus and p io E lee cade letters aed aqeibeola admin password setti ngs confinmation confirmation you need to type the selected password a second time in this field to Set Erase prevent error Viewer pasew ord Aaa Set and Erase buttons will apply or erase the password Set Frase PP PE AA viewer password set a password here to restrict access to viewing the camera Save all settings to flash vid eo Restore to factory default confirmation you need to type the selected password a second time in this field to prevent error Firmware Upgrade Browse Set and Erase buttons will apply or erase the password Save amp Restore Settings allow saving the current camera configuration as new default or restoring the camera to out of box settings Save all settings to flash button will save the current camera configuration as setting default Restore to factory default button will restore all settings to factory default except the camera IP address Firmware upgrade allows selection and application of a firmware file to be applied to the camera Browse button and field allow selection of the firmware file location on the local PC Upgrade button will apply the selected firmware file to the
14. place the camera in binning mode when the camera is in Day mode Binning in night mode when selected this radio button will place the camera in binning mode when the camera is in Night mode When both are selected the camera will be binned in both modes Binning mode combines 2x2 pixels on sensor to improve low light performance Low light sensitivity is improved by 4x as a larger pixel area is available to collect light The binning mode also increases Signal to noise ratio SNR by 2x The tradeoff with binning is between low light performance and resolution as when active binning mode will decrease available resolution by 4x Video Menu Show Video Type This menu allows selection control of the video compression displayed in the web H 264 over RTPUDP MIPEG over HTTP 2 Video to Sereen page Control Video with Mouse Show Video type these radio buttons control selection of display mode t No Contral ROI Reference Motion Detection Mask ae a H 264 over RTP UDP will display video using H 264 If viewing this way for the first apes asda eee time you will see the following prompt to download the necessary browser plug Resolution in allowing display of video in the browser using this compression Halt Full ee T5 Note H 264 video display is not available in Internet Explorer To enable this O capability in the Firefox browser you must first download the VLC player Left oo Top oO Right 2560 Bottom
15. s MoonLight This mode will produce the best image quality under very low light conditions with the least amount of image noise The trade off is in favor of low noise at the expense of high motion blur There are two stages of exposure control first stage is limited to 40 ms exposure time with gain limited to 5 followed by a second stage if the target brightness was not reached with up to 500 ms exposure while maintaining gain as low as possible Low Light noise filter this slider bar setting allows manual user control of noise reduction intensity Increase of the value percentage will reduce image noise reducing bit rates and false motion events in low light Trade off of increasing noise reduction is an overall softening of the image clarity in low illumination Day Night settings control operation of this functionality in Day Night model cameras Day Night Radio buttons allow selection of one of 3 mode options E Automatic Switching Level 43 Automatic is default setting enabling the camera to automatically change from color Day to black and white Night modes as illumination levels drop off Toggle Guard 3 Focus after B N switching Day this mode will manually place the camera in color mode no automatic function is available Enable Auto Iris ain Night this mode will manually place the camera in black and white mode no automatic function is available Switching Level this slider bar and numeric
16. the sub net of the local network can be manually configured in this DHCP Fixed Selection fi e d i Fixed IP DHLP Default Gateway the gateway IP address for the local network can be manually Limit MTU Size configured in this field By Mecelinreous Camera Name Second HTTP part ogg Apply Apply button will set the manual changes to IP setting to the camera Once IP address has been applied the factory reset function will not change IP settings when resetting the rest of the camera IP Options these settings allow configuration of the DHCP IP lock and MTU size options DHCP Fixed Selection these radio buttons allow configuring the camera as either Fixed IP manually configured or DHCP auto addressed from local DHCP server when selected Lock IP will prevent the camera IP address from being changed by the AV100 installation tool or network command When selected the IP must be manually unlocked in order to change the camera s IP address Limit MTU Size when selected this function will allow custom setting of the camera Maximum Transmission Unit in the By field MTU size is the limit for largest size frame packet that a given protocol can pass over the network Larger MTU size is more bandwidth efficient but large packets can also bottleneck on slow interfaces causing increased delivery latency The default MTU size for the camera is 1500 in bytes Miscellaneous settings allow assignment of a camera name in th
17. there is constant scene illumination sufficient to provide a quality image When this mode is Exposure ms J3 1 selected the Exposure ms field and slider bar controls will be enabled to allow user selection of base exposure time This control is not available when other modes are selected Speed In this mode the first stage of exposure control limits exposure time to 10ms while allowing gain to go up to 20ms and the second stage is up to 80ms exposure time while maintaining gain as low as possible In the second stage the speed mode will behave the same as balanced mode Balanced This is the camera default setting Similar to the Quality setting except the first stage is limited to 20ms with gain allowed going up to 20 followed by the second stage with exposure time up to 80ms This is the default setting for Arecont Vision cameras and will provide the best exposure settings balance for typical installations assuming good lighting conditions Exposure times and motion blur will increase in low light but not as much as with Quality or Moonlight modes Quality This mode is similar to MoonLight mode except for a shorter exposure time first stage is up to 40 ms exposure with the gain limited to 5 second stage is up to 200 ms exposure while keeping the gain as low as possible This mode is a good compromise between reducing noise and motion blur under most lighting conditions but with an increase in motion blur under low light condition
18. to camera flash memory Go to the Administration menu and click the Save to Flash button to save the current session settings as default for every session until changed or the camera is reset Link for external media players once the H 264 settings have been applied to the camera this field will display a link to the camera and H 264 video stream that can be cut and pasted into 3 party media players to view the camera RTP UDP multicast stream these settings enable and configure the multicast RTP UDP multicast stream Enable RTP Multicast feature of the camera for H 264 IP Address RTP Port 1234 Enable RTP Multicast radio button when selected enables the RTP Multicast SAP Destination IP streaming from the camera Apply IP Address this field is for input of the destination multicast IP address Valid range is from 244 0 0 0 to 239 255 255 255 default setting is 232 0 0 2 RTP Port this field is for configuring the destination multicast UDP port number Valid values are 1 to 65535 default is 1234 SAP Destination IP this field is for setting the Service Advertising Protocol IP address Valid range is from 244 0 0 0 to 239 255 255 255 default is 244 0 0 255 Note Multicasting will require use of an IGMP capable router or switch and IT personnel familiar with configuring multicast routing and IGMP for proper implementation Enabling this feature at the camera without multicast routing management configured
19. y will create a privacy mask in the image areas selected will not be visible once privacy option is enabled Focus Window will create a custom focus reference window for the area selected Resolution this setting controls the image size JPEG compression level and image cropping features Resolution Half amp Full JPEG Quality 15 tp ak Left g Top oO Right 2560 Bottom 1600 Apply now Apply amp make default JPEG Quality this slider bar and numeric field control the image compression level for the camera s JPEG encoder Higher levels reduce the compression and result in higher quality images with trade off for larger file sizes Lower levels increase image compression reducing file sizes with the trade off for lower quality image detail Left Top Right and Bottom numeric fields allow setting custom image size cropping and crop area coordinates in pixels Values applicable are O to maximum resolution in pixels maximum varies based on the sensor resolution being cropped Apply now button sets the current resolution settings for the current session until the browser is closed Apply amp make default button sets the current resolution settings and saves them to camera flash memory The settings will be default for every session until changed or the camera is reset H 264 H 264 RTSP RTP AVP stream settings control port setting compression and bit rate limits frames per second
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