Media player format settings

The media player format allows you to export a standard video clip or audio clip that can be viewed or listened to from computers that have a standard media player installed. The computer must also have the codec installed that you use for the export.

Name

Description

Select content

Select if you want to export video only, audio only, or both video and audio.

Select format

Select if you want to export video in AVI format or MKV format.

Codec

A video codec is a particular compression/decompression technology used when generating video files. Your choice of codec will affect the quality and size of the AVI file.

The list contains the video codecs available on your PC.

You can change the codec, but we recommend that you keep the default codec settings, unless you have a good reason to change these.

The codec that you use must be similar on the computer that you play the video clip from.

Include timestamps

Select if you want to add the date and time from the surveillance system to the exported images. The timestamp will be displayed at the top of the exported video.

Reduce frame rate

Select to reduce the frame rate for the export; every second image will be included, yet still play back in real-time.

Video texts

Click to open the Video Texts window where you can create pre- and post-texts for the AVI file. These texts will be added to all cameras for the export and displayed as still images before (Pre-slides) and/or after (Post-slides) the video.

Important: When you perform an export in MKV format: if you have not used privacy masking in video recorded in JPEG or MPEG-4/H.264/H.265 formats, no transcoding takes place on recorded video in the export (the recorded video is kept in the original quality). In contrast, if you have used privacy masks or have recorded video using any other codec (for example MxPEG or MPEG-4 short header mode), recorded video is transcoded into JPEG in the export.

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