You view live video feeds on the Live tab. Here you can work with audio, carousels, hotspots, Matrix, camera shortcut menus, pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) control, digital zoom, events activation, output activation, quick playback, and more.
The video stream from the camera is not necessarily being recorded. Video is normally recorded as defined by the surveillance system server. Typically, recording takes place according to a schedule (for example, every morning from 10.00 to 11.30) or whenever the surveillance system detects special events (for example, motion generated by a person entering a room, a sensor registering that a window is being opened, or manually activating an event in your XProtect Smart Client). Typically, you view recorded video on the Playback tab, but you can also view it using independent playback.
If title bars have been enabled in the camera properties in setup mode, the title bar above the images indicates if video is being recorded. You may notice that sometimes the camera is recording for short periods only. This is because the surveillance system server may have been configured to only record the video stream from a camera when there is motion, when a door is open, or similar, which can lead to many short periods of recordings.
If multiple streams have been set up on the server, you can temporarily view a different stream by selecting this from the camera toolbar. On the camera toolbar, click More and then select a stream from the available list.
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