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Cisco Video Surveillance 8020/8030 IP Camera Reference Guide
Chapter 5 Configuration
Media > Audio
Media > Audio
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Mute—Select this option to disable audio transmission from the camera to all clients. That if muted,
no audio data will be transmitted even if audio transmission is enabled on the Client Settings page.
In that case, this message is displayed: “The media type has been changed to video only because the
media from server contains no audio.”
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Microphone source (8020 model only)—Select either the internal or external microphone as the
audio source.
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Internal microphone input (8020 model only)—Select the gain of the external audio input according
to ambient conditions. Adjust the gain from 0% to 100%.
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External microphone input—Select the gain of the external audio input according to ambient
conditions. Adjust the gain from 0 (least sensitive) to 100% (most sensitive).
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Audio type—Select audio codec and the sampling bit rate.
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G.711 also provides good sound quality and requires about 64Kbps. Select pcmu (ƒÊ-Law) or
pcma (A-Law) mode.
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G.726 is a speech codec standard covering voice transmission at rates of 16, 24, 32, and
40kbit/s.
When completed with the settings on this page, click
Save
to enable the settings.
Network > General settings
This section explains how to configure a wired network connection for the camera.
Network Type Tab
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LAN—Select this option when the camera is deployed on a local area network (LAN) and is
intended to be accessed by local computers. The default setting for the Network Type is LAN.
Remember to click on the
Save
button when you complete the Network setting.
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Get IP address automatically—Select this option to obtain an available dynamic IP address
assigned by the DHCP server each time the camera is connected to the LAN.
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Use fixed IP address—Select this option to manually assign a static IP address to the camera.
Enter the Static IP, Subnet mask, Default router, and Primary DNS provided by your ISP or
network administrator.
- Subnet mask—This is used to determine if the destination is in the same subnet. The default
value is “255.255.255.0”.
- Default router—This is the gateway used to forward frames to destinations in a different
subnet. Invalid router setting will disable the transmission to destinations across different
subnets.
- Primary DNS—The primary domain name server that translates host names into IP addresses.
- Secondary DNS—Secondary domain name server that backups the Primary DNS.
-Primary WINS server—The primary WINS server that maintains the database of computer
names and IP addresses.
