Almost all camera types have the same customizable settings. This section describes the settings common to all camera types. Some of them may have no effect on certain camera types (such as color settings for network cameras).
Camera title - a name that is shown on camera windows' title bars and when searching for recordings. E.g. ``Corridor,'' ``Front door.''
Quality - image compression quality. This affects on the quality (and size) of the recorded images. A proper default value is 50. A greater value is recommended, if the camera is significant (i.e. people are to be recognized from its image), and a smaller value can be used if the camera is not very significant.
Framerate - how many images per second to capture from the camera. Depending on the hardware, the framerates of cameras may affect on each other. For instance, with HiCap100 and XeCap100 cards, every fourth camera is in the same group, and the four cameras of a group share 25 frames per second. The program will not allow setting greater framerates than supported by the hardware, except for network cameras.
Brightness, contrast - these are used to adjust
the image not to be too bright nor too dark.
Motion detection (Sensitivity, noise filter): see sub:Motion-detection-settings.
PTZ control - if the camera has pan/tilt/zoom control,
connected to a serial port, it is activated by selecting a dome control
protocol here. Supported protocols are listed in Appendix B ().
COM port - the serial port number that the dome control uses (1..4 if enabled, 0 for disabled).
Address - the physical address of the dome camera (defined by the dip switches of the camera). Usually 1..32, disabled when 0.
Resolution - the dimensions of the image. This
setting affects on the sizes of captured and recorded images, as well
as the hardware requirements of the program. Usually CIF quality (352288
pixels) is used as the resolution. NOTE! All resolutions,
whose vertical resolution is equal to or greater than 480, are interlaced.
In such images the changes show individually on every other horizontal
line, and the motion looks more blurred.
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