AXISQ6000-EMkIIPTZNetworkCamera
Videosettings
•Whensettingupavideostream,Video&Audio>VideoStream.UnderPreview,clickOpenandselecttheShowpixel
counteroptiontoenabletherectangleintheimage.Usethemousetomoveandresizetherectangle,orenterthenumber
ofpixelsintheWidthandHeighteldsandclickApply.
•Whensettingfocus,see.SelecttheShowpixelcounteroptiontoenabletherectangleintheimage.Usethemouseto
moveandresizetherectangle,orenterthenumberofpixelsintheWidthandHeighteldsandclickApply.
•Whensettingfocus,see.SelecttheShowpixelcounteroptiontoenabletherectangleintheimage.Usethemouseto
moveandresizetherectangle,orenterthenumberofpixelsintheWidthandHeighteldsandclickApply.
•WhenaccessingtheLiveViewpageinInternetExplorerwithAXISMediaControl(AMC)inWindows.Right-clickinthe
imageandselectPixelcounter.Usethemousetomoveandresizetherectangle.
Image
ThedefaultimagesettingscanbeconguredunderVideo&AudioVideo>VideoStream.SelecttheImagetab.
Thefollowingsettingsareavailable:
•Resolution.Selectthedefaultresolution.
•SelectAspectratiocorrectiontoimprovetheappearanceofimagesinthebrowserwhenthevideostreamhasadifferent
aspectratio.Pixelscomprisingtheimagearerearrangedsoastoprovideamoreaccuraterepresentationoftheimage.
•Compression.Thecompressionlevelaffectstheimagequality,bandwidthandlesizeofsavedimages;thelowerthe
compression,thehighertheimagequalitywithhigherbandwidthrequirementsandlargerlesizes.
•Mirrorimage.Ifrequired,theimagecanbemirrored.
•Rotateimage.Ifrequired,theimagecanberotated.
•Colorsetting.SelecteitherColororBlack&White.Black&WhiteuseslessbandwidththanColor.
Note
VideostreamsoverHDMIcanonlyberotated180°or0°.
•Palette.Theimagecanbecoloredbyapplyingapalette.Colorsintheimageindicatetemperaturedifferencesandcanbe
usedtoimprovevisibilityofnedetails.Thepaletteselectedhereisusedasthedefaultpalette,otherpalettescanbe
selectedontheLiveViewpage.
•Maximumframerate.Toavoidbandwidthproblems,theframerateallowedtoeachviewercanbeLimitedtoaxed
amount.Alternatively,theframeratecanbesetasUnlimited,whichmeanstheAxisproductalwaysdeliversthehighest
frameratepossibleunderthecurrentconditions.
•Overlaysettings.SeeAboutoverlaytextonpage25.
ClickSavetoapplythenewsettings.
H.264
H.264,alsoknownasMPEG-4Part10/AVC,isavideocompressionstandardthatprovideshighqualityvideostreamsatlowbitrates.
AnH.264videostreamconsistsofdifferenttypesofframessuchasI-framesandP-frames.AnI-frameisacompleteimage,whereas
P-framesonlycontainthedifferencesfrompreviousframes.
GOPlength
AGroupofPictures(GOP)containsoneI-framefollowedbyanumberofP-frames.TheGOPlengthisthenumberofframes
betweentwoI-frames.
EqualvaluesforGOPlengthandframerateresultinoneGOPpersecond.AhigherGOPlengthvalueresultsinmoresmall-sized
P-framesandfewerlarge-sizedI-frameswhilekeepingthesameframerate.Inotherwords,ahighGOP-lengthvaluesaves
bandwidth,butthevideoqualitymaydecrease.AlowGOP-lengthvalueincreasesthevideoqualitybutrequiresmorebandwidth.
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