Axis F41 User Manual

AXISF41MainUnit
VideoandAudio
•Simplex–NetworkCameramicrophoneonly-Audiocapturedbytheproductmicrophoneistransmittedfromthe
Axisproducttooneormoreclients.
Tosettheaudiomode,gotoVideo&Audio>AudioSettingsandselectthedesiredmodefromtheAudiomodedrop-downlist.
AudioInput
AnexternalmicrophoneoralinesourcecanbeconnectedtotheAudio-inconnector.ConguretheaudioinputsettingsunderVideo
&Audio>AudioSettings.
Note
IfusingunbalancedLineinamonocontactmustbeused.Signalontipandgroundonsleeve.
Note
IfusingbalancedLineinastereocontactmustbeused.Hotontip,coldonringandgroundonsleeve.
SelectMicrophonetouseanexternalmicrophoneorLinetouseaLineindevice,e.g.anaudiomixerformultiplemicrophones
oramicrophonewithabuilt-inamplier,asaudiosource.
SelecttheYesoptioniftheLineinputorexternalmicrophoneisBalanced.
TheMicrophonepoweroptionprovidesDCpowerforanexternalmicrophone.
TheMicrophonepoweroptionisavailableforexternalmicrophones.5VDCpoweror12Vphantompowerareavailabledepending
onifthemicrophoneisunbalancedorbalanced.Microphonepowershouldonlybeusedwithmicrophonesthathavenobattery.This
settingshouldnotbeenabledwhenusingadynamicorbatterypoweredmicrophone.
Touseaprofessionalmicrophonerequiring48Vphantompower,youneedanexternalpowersupplyandabalanced-unbalanced
converter(audiotransformer)inbetween.
UsetheInputgaintocontrolthevolumeoftheaudioinput.Ifthesoundistoolow,chooseahigherdBvalue,toamplifythe
sound.Ifthesoundistoohigh,choosealowerdBvalue.TheLevelbargivesavisualrepresentationoftheaudiosignallevelindB
relativetothefull-scaleinputlevel.
•Green—thesignalisatagoodlevel.
•Yellow—thesignalisbecomingdistorted.
•Red—thesignalisdistorted.
UsetheEncodingoptiontoselectdigitalaudioencodingformat.
•AACrequiresalicenseforbothencodinganddecoding.AACistheleastcomplicatedandmostwidelyusedcodec.If
achievingthebestpossibleaudioqualityisapriority,AACistherecommendedcodectouse.AnAAClicenseisincluded
intheAxisproduct.
•G711isanunlicensedstandardcodecthatisusefulwhenintegratingaudiointoaVoIPsystem
•G726isanunlicensedspeechcodecthatismostcommonlyusedwithinthesecurityindustry.
Note
TheSampleratedenesthenumberoftimespersecondthesoundissampled.Ahighersampleratewillprovidebetteraudio
quality,butalsorequiresagreaterbandwidth.
SettherequiredBitratedependingontheselectedencoding.Ahigherbitratewillgivebetteraudioquality.Alowerbitrate
mayhavelatencyordelay,butwillrequirelessbandwidth.
Formoreinformationaboutthesesettings,pleaseseetheonlinehelp
.
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Axis F41 Specifications

General

Brand	Axis
Model	F41
Category	Security System
Language	English