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vDisplay HDI-Pro IP Engine User Guide
Configuring Autonomous Control of Cameras
You can configure the vDisplay IP engine to efficiently control up to eight GigE Vision compliant video
sources (cameras) without the need for further user intervention through GEVPlayer. This is referred to
as Autonomous Source Control.
Previous sections of this guide describe how GEVPlayer can be used to control vDisplay IP engines and
cameras. GEVPlayer controls these devices and sends heartbeats to the cameras to maintain the flow of
video from the camera to the vDisplay IP engines, as shown in the following figure.
When configured for Autonomous Control, the vDisplay IP engine automatically finds the camera on
the network by either looking for a specified IP address, or by using the Discovery mode, and commands
the camera to stop or start streaming video in either a unicast or multicast video network configuration.
The vDisplay IP engine sends heartbeats to the cameras to maintain video transmissions.
