Advanced Settings
You can customize video settings in theAdvanced tab.
To customize video settings:
- Click on the person icon at the upper-right corner of Surveillance Station desktop.
- Click on Personal in the drop-down menu.
- In the Advanced tab, you can customize the following settings:
- Video background color: Select Light gray or Black from the drop-down menu to customize the background color of videos played from Camera Preview, Live View, Recording Player, Timeline, and Smart Search.
- Video Scaling: Select High performance or High quality from the drop-down menu to customize the video scaling quality of videos played from Camera Preview, Live View, Recording Player, Timeline, and Smart Search.
- High performance: Displays more video channels while consuming less CPU resources, however videos may lose detail.
- High quality: Video detail and clarity are kept, however more CPU resources may be required.
- Tick the On-screen thumbnail display duration (sec.) checkbox to determine the preview display duration of the snapshot at the upper-right corner after the snapshot has been taken. You can set the duration by selecting from the drop-down menu.
- Tick the Use the playback speed settings when playing the next video checkbox to keep the playback speed settings in Recording Player.
- Click Save to apply your changes.
To set up auto logout:
- Click on the person icon at the upper-right corner of Surveillance Station desktop.
- Click on Personal in the drop-down menu.
- In the Advanced tab, you can adjust auto logout settings:
- Enable auto logout: Tick this checkbox to enable auto logout.
- Idle timeout duration (minutes): Specify the idle duration before auto logout occurs.
- Do not auto logout when playing videos: Tick this checkbox to prevent logging out automatically when the video is playing.
- Click Save to apply your changes.