Axis P5414-E - Audio Input; Audio Output

AXISP5414-EPTZDomeNetworkCamera
VideoandAudio
•Simplex–NetworkCameramicrophoneonly-Audiocapturedbytheproductmicrophoneistransmittedfromthe
Axisproducttooneormoreclients.
Tosettheaudiomode,gotoVideo&Audio>AudioSettingsandselectthedesiredmodefromtheAudiomodedrop-downlist.
AudioInput
Note
IfusingunbalancedLineinamonocontactmustbeused.Signalontipandgroundonsleeve.
SelectExternalMicrophonetouseanexternalmicrophoneorLinetouseaLineindevice,e.g.anaudiomixerformultiple
microphonesoramicrophonewithabuilt-inamplier,asaudiosource.
Selectthemicrophonesensitivitylevel(High/Low)dependingonthesoundlevelinthemonitoredarea.Forexample,iftheAxis
productisinstalledinanoisyenvironment,trysettingtheinputsensitivitytoLow.
TheMicrophonepoweroptionprovidesDCpowerforanexternalmicrophone.
Microphonepowershouldonlybeusedwithmicrophonesthathavenobattery.Thissettingshouldnotbeenabledwhenusinga
dynamicorbatterypoweredmicrophone.
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.
AudioOutput
ConguretheaudiooutputsettingsunderVideo&Audio>AudioSettings.
Outputgain-Controlthevolumeofthelineaudiooutput.Ifthesoundistoolow,chooseahigherdBvalue.Ifthesoundis
toohigh,choosealowerdBvalue.
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