Chapter 5: APEC Network Operation
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5.6.1 Camera Setting
Select the camera that you want to adjust from the “Video Source” field. Video standard is NTSC
or PAL selectable. Values of “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Saturation” and “Hue” are default at “50”.
The “Quality” is set default at “80”, an acceptable level. You can adjust it higher for better quality.
But, please remember,
do NOT make it at “100”.
Because the quality level higher than 90 makes
little difference to video improvement, but makes the video data size becomes much larger and this
is no good for remote transmission, especially when the network bandwidth is small
Fig. 5-12
The “compression boost” function is ONLY good when H.263 compression is selected. “Video
resolution” can be 320x240 or 640x480. “Auto Gain Control” is good for adjusting video signal
input level automatically. There is no selection for “Watermark” because this function is always
enabled.
You can also configure the camera for PTZ control here. The “Camera Control Device” field is for
PTZ camera model selection. You need also to fill in “Baud Rate” and “PTZ ID”, which need to match
the setting with PTZ camera. The “Timeout” is, when a remote user logs in and gets PTZ control of
this camera, he will have the number of seconds to control this camera. When the time expires, the
control authority will be grand to other users.
The “Re-detect camera” button is used when the camera loses connection. After finish the setting,
click “Done” to save the changes or click “Write To FlashROM” to prevent from configuration lost
after a power off and power on initialization of AP-5004.
5.6.2 Set name & on screen display
Use the
Set Names and On-Screen Display
page to set server names of AP-5004 and all cameras.
You can also use this page to key in text to be displayed on screen with each camera under the
Set
Overlay Text
option. Use the
x
and
y
fields to position the displayed text. Use
Set Time Stamp
option to
define the format of the time stamp. And “Time Stamp” has only 6 fixed positions to be located.
select PTZ camera model
