Channel Settings
The channel configuration dialog box offers several setting categories. As you move across the tabs and alter the configuration, the tabs containing unsaved changes will be marked with an asterisk (*).
Some of the tabs are present for all channels. Other tabs only appear for special driver types (e.g., Web page, Video emulation etc.).
Details
Here you can change the channel title and assign a recording configuration to both main and secondary streams, as well as changing Organization membership for the target channel.
Title: user-defined cannel name, as it will appear in Macula Console and Macula Monitor applications
Organization: assign this channel to an Organization, if applicable
Main stream recording configuration: choose how the first video stream (usually, higher resolution) will be recorded
Main stream storage: destination storage for this stream (may differ from other streams)
Substream recording configuration: choose how the second video stream (usually, lower resolution) will be recorded
Substream storage: destination storage for this stream (may differ from other streams)
Edge stream recording configuration: choose how the edge stream will be recorded, if used (available for ONVIF Profile G conformant devices and also for offline recordings made by Macula Mobile)
Edge stream storage: destination storage for this stream (may differ from other streams)
Record supplementary streams with substream*: if enabled, the selected auxiliary data streams will be stored with the substream
Audio: incoming sound track
VCA: video analytics metadata
Motion: motion detector data
Data: data from data sources (serial text like POS etc.)
Video lost time: the amount of time in seconds for Macula to wait after all channel's video steams disappear and before triggering a Video loss event
Passive mode: Disable recording unless the camera is opened in monitor (Thin client and mobile clients does not "awake camera")
Keep Service connection: Write metadata accordingly to the recording profile even while device is in passive mode
Passive Mode Differences for ONVIF and Media Devices Drivers:
Simple Passive Mode (No Viewers)
ONVIF Driver: Maintains service connection(s) only (HTTP/HTTPS).
Media Devices (RTSP): No connections to the device.
Improved Passive Mode (No Viewers)
ONVIF Driver: Maintains service connection(s) (HTTP/HTTPS) and "limited" RTSP connection(s).
Media Devices (RTSP): Maintains both service connection(s) (HTTP/HTTPS) and "limited" RTSP connection(s).
Any Passive Mode (At Least One Viewer)
ONVIF Driver: Maintains full service and RTSP connection(s) (HTTP/HTTPS).
Media Devices (RTSP): Maintains full service and RTSP connection(s) (HTTP/HTTPS).
Recording identifier (only displayed if Show object IDs option is enabled in the application settings): unique channel identifier that is used as its folder name in the archive
If you enter a custom title for a channel, a special button on the right side will allow you to revert to the device title with a single click.
*By default, all supplementary data streams are stored with the main stream, and the secondary stream is recorded is video only. However, if you wish to keep the secondary stream for a longer period (e.g., 7 days for the main stream and 30 days for the substream), you may wish to keep the data streams with the substream so that these tracks are available when you play back the archive. Otherwise, the supplementary data will be erased with the main stream based on the quotas. This setting is also useful when you use different storages for both streams and it is crucial where the supplementary data goes.
Each of the supplementary data streams - audio, MD, metadata, and serial data - can only be recorded once: either with the main or with the secondary video stream. None of these streams are copied. Thus, for example, if you keep the substream longer than the main video stream, you may want to record the audio together with the secondary stream.
You can either use Default storage category for target streams, or use a different storage profile. The latter can be used for manually distributing streams between storage different directories:
storage directories are marked with the relevant storage profiles
each channel is assigned a recording location
To choose a storage profile that is not Default, select storage location from the Directories list and click Change button.
Select one of the built-in storage profiles or create and edit a new one.
The built-in storage types are:
Disabled: storage location will not be used
Default: default storage tag
Fallback: storage destination to be used if all the storage units with specified tags have failed
Readonly: existing data will be available for reading and will not be erased; no new recordings will be appended to this location
These profiles cannot be edited or removed. Fallback storage settings are available in the corresponding tab of the Storage properties.
Click + New storage button to create a new storage profile, or select an existing one and click the Edit button in the upper-right-hand corner to change its name.
Enter the storage profile title and click OK to save and exit.
Click the Change button to choose the recording configuration: you can pick an existing configuration or create a new one, or a schedule on the spot from the same dialog box.
Please choose Continuous Recording configuration for edge streams to ensure proper recording.
Note that if you leave motion detection OFF and assign motion-based recording configuration to the target channel, no data will be recorded.
Members
This section allows you to attach user buttons to channels, so that they appear together in the Macula Monitor application. User buttons bound to channels in this way will appear as video overlay controls when the target channel is placed into a viewport.
If you are editing a channel group, this tab will allow you to put other channels and channel groups into the target group
Membership
Choose the group(s) you want to contain the target channel as a member: double-click the relevant items or use the Add/Remove buttons below to select/deselect. You will have both channel groups (internal in Macula Console) and visual groups here.
Permissions
Allow users and user groups to access and administer the target channel. To add a user or user group, simply select at least one permission, and the user (user group) will be automatically moved to the Selected users list. To clear all permissions, double-click the user in the left-hand column. You can also use the checkbox next to Permissions in the central column to toggle between all/none (if not all permissions are selected, the checkbox will be filled with a black rectangle).
Webpage configuration
This kind of tab will only appear for Crosslink channels and channels bound to devices with the HTML Source model (generic model specifically dedicated to static streaming from web), and will affect both live and recording.
The following settings may be available here are:
Ignore certificate errors: if the target webpage has a self-signed certificate, the built-in browser may be unable to open it; choose this option to prevent certificate-related issues (unsafe but more likely to operate)
Auto refresh interval: if the page contents is not dynamic (i.e., does not refresh itself), define a refresh period in seconds here (0=disabled, for dynamic contents)
Resolution and frame rate settings have been moved to the Video configuration tab.
Video File Configuration
This tab only appears if the underlying device is of the (Emulation) Video File type. Here, you can specify the paths to the video streams that will act as main and secondary stream.
Click the Browse button to choose the file using Windows Explorer.
For both streams, you can adjust the frame delay: this will affect the speed of the video.
Motion detector
Choose between camera-side or software-side motion detectors; the default detector state is disabled, meaning that no motion information is received or recorded for the target channel. If you are using motion-driven recording profiles, make sure to enable motion detection for the selected channel(s).
When selecting camera-side motion detection, make sure to go to device Web interface to enable and configure motion detector. Settings may vary depending on device manufacturer; also, check with GSF to make sure hardware motion detection is supported for the target device.
Camera-side motion detection is recommended for two basic reasons:
computational load is transferred from servers to devices, decreasing server load, and
on most devices, hardware-side motion detection is performed on raw video stream, which means superior accuracy compared to software-side detector, as software only gets access to compressed stream.
Software-side motion detector is a preferable choice if:
legacy devices without MD support are used, or
there is a necessity to use build heatmaps - in this case, grid-like MD on the software side is helpful.
The motion detector on the software side has two options: high performance and high accuracy:
High Performance mode: this type of analysis is performed for only key frames whose frequency can vary from several frames per second to one frame every few seconds - this is less sensitive for picture quality, but greatly affects detector operation. CPU consumption is significantly lower due to this, and it can be additionally reduced by increasing time interval between two analyzed frames.
High Accuracy mode: this mode performs motion analysis for the whole video stream, so we recommend selecting this option when you want to achieve best detection results. The lower time interval means higher precision. Keep in mind that CPU and virtual memory usage is much greater if this mode is selected.
In both modes, the level of sensitivity can be adjusted, as can the time interval setting which defines the frequency of frame analysis.
Regardless of which mode you select, you can further decrease the amount of server-side calculations by using a lower-resolution stream (if available). For example, if your main stream is 3MP and your substream is D1, the motion detection engine will spend much less system resources on D1 analysis than it would spend on a 3MP image. Note that some cameras deliver lower-resolution streams as cropped high-resolution images (not resized, as it would be expected) - in such cases, using a substream for MD analysis will produce wrong results and therefore doing so is not advisable.
Click the Motion detection exclusions button in order to set up exclusion zones. Note that these settings only cover the software-side motion detector; in order to configure the exclusions for the camera-side motion detector, go to the Web interface of the target device.
First, choose the grid size for the detector: this will define the size of the smallest detection region. Minimum grid size is 2x2 cells (resulting in four detection areas), and maximum size is 64x64 cells. Then, mark your desired exclusion area simply by clicking and dragging on the viewport; you can draw several rectangles to form a complex polygonal area. Exclusion area(s) will be highlighted light green. In order to cancel the selection, simply draw a rectangle over it.
Settings in the bottom are here to ease the configuration process:
Maintain aspect ratio: displays original picture proportions, if selected, or stretches the picture to fill the viewport
Show motion: shows currently present motion, if selected
In order to test the behavior of the selected grid size, enable the Show motion option, the click Apply and see how the detector works with your defined grid.
When you have finished, click OK to return to the main channel configuration dialog box.
Video Analytics
Macula servers have a built-in CNN-based engine for the video analysis (VA) with object classification, zones, lines, counters, and rules. In this tab, you can enable and configure the detection parameters for the target channel.
There are several supported neural network engines that do the analytics processing:
Object detector: generic object detector (people, vehicles, animals) with multiple performance options.
PPE Detector: personal protective equipment detector (vests, head covers).
Choose one of the engines to be used for object detection on the target channels. (It is not possible to enable multiple detector engines to run in parallel).
Generic object detector engines use the same neural network. The numbers next to the name designate the size of the downscaled image that will be fed to the VA engine. The bigger the image, the higher the CPU/GPU load will be; larger images also mean that smaller objects will be detected better. Model aspect ratio also may affect detection quality. Overall, it is recommended to test different models and settings for each individual scene.
Please see the dedicated documentation on VA and separately for PPE Detector for more details and recommendations.
Before enabling VA for the channel, make sure your VA license allows it. Each Macula installation included 1 (one) generic VA channel free of charge. Specific engines like PPE Detector require a separate license. You can check what channels are using VA license by adding the corresponding column in the Channels section. To do this, click the 
grid icon in the upper right corner of Macula Console and move the Video Analytics column to the list on the left, then click OK.
The following settings are available here:
External metadata sources: metadata coming from any source other than Macula embedded video analytics. This also includes old generation Open VCA (embedded into older Macula versions).
Camera-side metadata: if enabled, metadata received from the device (edge VA) will be displayed in Macula Monitor overlaying the video stream, and will also be used for event triggering.
External metadata: if enabled, server will accept metadata sent by external sources in JSON format for video overlay, event triggering, and search
External service metadata: if enabled, server will accept metadata from integrated services that are configured as external services, for the purposes of live/playback overlay, search, and event triggering
Software video analytics: here, you can enable and configure server-side VA.
Enable: if selected, the server will perform video analysis for the target video channel, and metadata overlay will be turned ON on the Macula Monitor side (affects all connected Macula Monitor applications)
Use low-resolution stream if available: similarly to motion detector, VA can be performed on the secondary video stream in order to save server resources. We recommend that you keep this setting ON.
Detector: choose one of the available detection engines.
Options: click to set the engine-specific parameters.
Configure zones and rules: click the button to enter overlay setup
Classes: click Change and choose the object classes that you want to be detected in the target video (deselected classes will be unavailable for rules)
Detection interval*: time (delay) in milliseconds between two successive detections (similar to MD), default: 200ms
Object loss timeout: time interval in seconds, after which the object out of sight will be considered lost (and will be detected as new object if appears again), default: 6 seconds
Scene dynamics**: relative speed of the objects in the scene
Confidence threshold: minimum level of confidence to decide if the object belongs to a class (detections with lower confidence will be disregarded), default: 70%
Object similarity threshold***: the minimal level of object similarity between two detections to decide that it is the same object (objects with lower similarity will be detected as new), default: 85%, optimal range: 50-90%
Maximum object size: percentage of the image height and width that can be occupied by a single object at max. Enable this option to eliminate false detections of large non-existent objects.
*This is the minimum time between two detections. If the video stream FPS is low, the actual interval may be longer.
*This is the minimum time between two detections. If the video stream FPS is low, the actual interval may be longer.
**This setting teaches the VA engine where to look for the same object in the next frame. Slower option means the object is present in more frames. Faster means the object is present in less frames during its appearance. Choose slower options for calm scenes with low-speed objects (e.g., people walking), and faster for dynamic scenes (highway etc.).
***Highly affects the engine ability to track the objects. If the value is too low for the target scene, different objects may be considered one. Too high (close to 100) causes each detection to produce a new object each time. We recommend that you start with the default value, and change it slowly when testing. Scenes with many similar objects (e.g., items on the conveyor belt) require slightly higher similarity and correct object speed (see above).
Engine Options
Click the Options button next to the VA engine drop-down list to open the engine-specific settings. These mostly refer to GPU usage.
For the generic object detector engine, the following settings are available:
GPU device*: choose one of the supported graphics cards, or choose Disable to leave VA running on CPU
Advanced (only change this if you know what you are doing!): per process GPU memory fraction: amount of video memory in % to be allocated for CUDA; default value 50%
Advanced (only change this if you know what you are doing!): allow GPU memory growth: set this to Yes this if you prefer the entire video memory chunk to be pre-allocated instead of gradual growth
*Supported GPUs are NVIDIA video cards with capability parameter 6.0 or higher (Pascal, Turing, or Ampere architecture).
If you have multiple video cards, you can assign different cards to different channels. Leave the advanced settings the same for all channels that use the same graphics card. You can also leave some channels to run on CPU (for example, the generic 300x300 model is optimized for mobile CPUs and will therefore better perform on CPU, not GPU).
Create VA Zones and Rules
Click the Configure zones and rules button to bring up the video overlay dialog box. By default, only VA overlays are displayed, but you can use the Show all checkbox to see if there are other overlays (e.g., data sources) configured for this channel.
In the top right corner, there are VA markers: counter, counting line, and polygonal zone. Drag and drop the marker onto the picture to place it, then adjust its size and position.
Zone and Line Properties
Click a zone or a line to see its properties in the rightmost column:
Type: corresponding element type (line, polygon)
Title: user-defined item name, e.g., Lobby
Color: choose the element color using the standard palette
Opacity: color opacity (0=transparent, 100=solid)
Additionally, each zone has some properties that affect event triggering and are individual for each zone:
Object presence time: time in seconds for the object to stay inside the zone before the "object entered or appeared" event is triggered (default: 1 second)
Object absence time: time in seconds for the object to stay outside the zone for the "object left or disappeared" event is triggered (default: 1 second)
Object intersection threshold: percentage of the object area to cross the zone border for it to be considered a crossing (default: 50%, half of the object)
For example, with default settings: if more than half of the object stays inside the zone for longer than one second, the "object appeared" event is triggered.
Please note that markers are just visual elements: you need to add rules and then create E&A rules to trigger some event chains.
Rules and Counters
For each zone or line, you can create rules, which can be later used to trigger events in E&A. For example, such rules can increment counters:
for reflecting the current number of objects in the zone, use the special Zone counter type,
for other rules, create new counters and then go to the E&A configurator to add rules that will increment those counters.
For each counter marker in VA, you will need to map it to a real counter to make it work.
to track the number of people in any zone: create Zone counter under the zone, then drag and drop a counter marker, and bind it to the zone counter
to count objects appearances for lines or zones: create a new counter (or choose an existing E&A counter from the list), then drag and drop the counter marker and bind it to the counter
In such a way, you can use the same counters from E&A for multiple channels' VA, for example, to count the total number of customers coming via different doors.
For each zone/line rule, you can choose one or multiple object classes to be tracked. You can only choose among classes that have been enabled for the current channel in the previous dialog box.
Available line rules:
Crossed AB or Crossed BA: object has crossed the line in the specified direction
Crossed: object has crossed the line in any direction
Available zone events:
Entered or appeared: the object appeared in the zone either by crossing its border from outside to inside, or appeared directly inside (e.g., if the zone border is equal to the frame border, or there is a door inside the zone)
Leaved or disappeared: the object departed from the zone either by crossing its border from inside out, or simply disappeared inside the zone (e.g., there is a door inside the zone)
Available counter types:
zone counter: reflects the current number of certain objects in the zone
counter: E&A software counter
Use the buttons below the objects and their properties to create and remove rules. Note that these rules only exist in VA configuration; in order to set up reactions, go to the Events&Actions section of Macula Console.
VA Configuration Examples
Workflow example: count the number of people who entered the zone.
Drag and drop a zone marker onto the picture. Stretch the zone and add new nodes to cover the desired area.
Click the New rule button, then select the Entered or leaved event type, and set class to Person on the right.
Drag and drop a counter marker onto the picture.
Click the counter, then click the ... (three dots) button in the properties column on the right and choose a counter. If there are none, create a new one using the New counter button below the list.
Save the video analytics settings.
Go to Events&Actions, create a new event of the VCA event type, choose your VA camera as source, and your VA zone event from step 2 as VCA rule. (Note that the rules will not be listed if VA is disabled for the target channel).
Create a E&A rule using the event from step 6 and a built-in action Increment counter for the target counter.
Zone counters can only reflect the current number of typed objects in the zone, therefore, these cannot be incremented or decremented.
Example 2: pop up camera if there are 3 people in the zone.
Drag and drop a zone marker onto the picture. Stretch the zone and add new nodes to cover the desired area.
Click the New zone counter button below the zone list. The counter will appear in the same list.
Save the video analytics settings.
Go to Events&Actions, create a new event of the Counter value type. Select the counter you created on step 2 as event source. Set the operator to Equal and value to 3.
Create a E&A rule using the event from step 4 and a built-in action Pop up camera on screen. Set the desired channel as rule target to define, which camera pops up
Audio
Here, select the audio source for the target channel. The available options are:
None: the channel will have no audio track
Internal: built-in or line-in camera microphone will be used as the audio source (G.711 only!)
Attached: a microphone that is physically connected to the server will serve as the audio source (server must be the one having this channel in its configuration)
Audio source: select one of the devices from the drop-down list. If the list is empty, make sure that the server has a microphone connected and that it is visible/working in the Windows Control Panel.
External: use audio from another channel. Audio will be combined with the target channel video in both live and playback.
When fetching audio from the device side (internal source), make sure to choose the G.711 codec. Other codecs are not supported at this point, and selecting them may result in unavailable video stream, too, when both video and audio are packed into the RTSP stream.
For audio sources that are attached to the server: you can use both line-in microphones, as well as ones connected via audio board, which supports multiple microphones at once. There are three important requirements here:
the target channel and the target audio device must belong to the same server
the attached audio device(s) must be recognized by the operating system
the list of audio devices is retrieved live, so the target server must be online for you to apply the configuration
Digital Inputs
If digital inputs (DI) are supported for the underlying device, the available inputs will be listed here. Mark them in the list in order to allow event generation from those inputs: events can be later set up in the E&A Configurator using the Digital input event type. After changing the DI name, click Apply below for the changes to take effect: the setting will not be saved if you simply switch to another tab.
Note that the tab contents is retrieved in real time from the target device, therefore, it may take several seconds for the contents to become available. In case the target device is offline/unavailable, or if there is no support for DI for the selected device model, the list will be empty and a corresponding warning will appear.
Digital Outputs
You can change the state of digital outputs (DO) from the E&A Configurator (target action type: Control digital output). For the DO to be available in actions, select them here by putting a mark in the corresponding checkboxes. Optionally, you can also change the DO names. Click the Apply button below the output details to save the changes before moving to other settings.
For each relay output, you can also specify the desired mode: switch, inverted switch or pulse. This defines the command that will be sent to the device when DO action is triggered in E&A.
Note that the tab contents is retrieved in real time from the target device, therefore, it may take several seconds for the contents to become available. If the target device is offline/unavailable, has no DO, or if there is no support for DO for the selected device model, the list will be empty and a corresponding warning will appear. In case your device does have DO but they are not supported by software, you can still change their state from Macula E&A by using CGI/HTTP commands (action type: Send HTTP request or Run program). The exact command text depends on the device and can be found in the device documentation.
Video Overlays
Here, you can create channels shortcuts and also choose a data provider to embed some textual data with the video. The section below explains channel shortcuts; for setup guidelines on the data overlay, please refer to the Data Sources section of this document. Video analytics visual elements are explained above.
Channel shortcuts are interactive video overlay elements intended for instant switching between video channels in the Macula Monitor application's live view mode. In other words, these are visual controls that appear on top of the video and clicking them will open other (pre-defined) video channels in the same viewport. These "portals" are configured in Macula Console and then used in the Macula Monitor application.
Video Overlay Shortcuts a.k.a Portals
Starting with version 1.25 it is possible to mark video overlay shortcuts not only as a rectangle but as a free-form polygon too. Also, it is possible to create video overlay shortcuts for:
Data and video channels
Maps
Buttons
Webpages
Shared layouts
By clicking the dedicated area inside the channel, in the Macula Monitor, you can switch data and video channels, trigger events assigned to buttons, and switch between saved shared layouts.
Adding portals to channels
To add a new "portal" to the channel, in the Macula Console go to:
Configuration ->channels-> Select a preferred channel and then click the Edit button on top or double-click the preferred channel
Select video overlay and klick Configure video overlays button
Drag the "portal" icon
to the channel layout view and mark the zone you want to use as a shortcut.
To assign existing resources to a shortcut, select your shortcut in the Elements panel, then in the Properties panel, click on Resources and assign from the available list.
Make sure the video from the target channel is available before setting up the channel shortcuts in order to ensure correct shortcut placement.
The video Overlay window contains three tabs. The first tab is for the channel camera view and all the overlay markings. The Elements tab allows you to switch between added overlays, and the Properties tab contains options specific to the chosen overlay.
Shortcut Overlay Properties
Type: type of video overlay
Shape: can be rectangle or polygon
Label: optional text to display with Overlay in Macula Monitor viewport
Background color/opacity: shortcut color and its transparency
Foreground color/opacity: shortcut font color
Font/Font Size: face and size of displayed shortcut font
Resource: resource linked to Video Overlay shortcut
Data Overlay Properties
Type: type of video overlay
Line count: how many lines are allowed per video port
Timeout: how long data will be displayed since the last data input
Text color: data Overlay viewport font color
Data Source: data source connected to the selected channel
Data ID: data ID
Counter Overlay Properties
Type: Type of video overlay
Text: Optional text to display with Overlay in Macula Monitor viewport
Color: Displayed text color
Opacity: Displayed text opacity
Font/Font Size: Face and size of displayed shortcut font
Resource: resource linked to Video Overlay shortcut
To remove any unneeded Shortcut, Counter or Data Overlay - select it in the video viewport or in Elements tab and click the Recycle bin button in the panel above the video.
To save the video overlay settings, click OK to close the dialog box and then click Apply or OK in the Edit channel dialog box. If you click Cancel to discard changes in the Edit channel dialog box, adjustments in the video overlays will not be saved.
Shortcuts and Counter Overlays can be duplicated. To do so, select the Overlay you want to duplicate. At the top of the Elements section, you will find two buttons, one for deleting the overlay and the second for duplicating. Click on the Duplicate button. This will create a copy of the selected overlay.
Channel Configuration
The Channel Configuration tab allows you to adjust advanced channel settings. Some of these can be changed via Macula Console but sometimes software does not cover some of the device settings, so you are also given the option to go straight to the device Web interface - simply click the Open device in browser button to do this.
For ONVIF channels (if device model is set to (Generic) ONVIF Compatible), there is an option to set up imaging settings: the corresponding button will appear next to the Channel properties button. Please see below for more details.
Click Open channel properties to access the additional channel configuration dialog box. The available tabs depend on the device model and capabilities: for some cameras, only basic configuration options are present, while for others, advanced settings are accessible. If you see that a camera has certain capabilities that are not configurable via Macula Console configuration interface, go to the device's Web interface in order to change that specific setting.
Video Input tab: set video transport (the available list of options depends on the device type and model; common types include HTTP, RTSP* and native transport)
Video Adjustment tab: fine-tune picture settings such as brightness and contrast level
Substream tab: enable second (lower resolution) stream
Video Configuration tab: choose streaming settings**
Motion Detection tab: with some devices, the camera-side motion detector must be explicitly enabled here
External PTZ tab: adjust external PTZ controller settings; communication port must match the communication port that the RS232/485 controller is connected to, and baud rate has to match the baud rate of your PTZ controller/analog PTZ camera
RTSP tab: appears if RTSP transport type has been chosen; set RTSP port and mode (TCP/UDP/multicast***) here
*You may have to specify the RTSP port on the corresponding tab if it differs from default (port 554 for most cameras). To do this, select the RTSP transport type and then click Apply: as a result, the RTSP tab will become available. For ONVIF devices, the RTSP port is set automatically.
**Remember, the higher the resolution/bitrate/quality/frame rate you set, the more storage space and bandwidth it will use when recording. These settings also affect CPU/virtual memory resource consumption for live video and software-side motion detection.
***Multicast mode availability depends on device integration.
Imaging Settings
For ONVIF device channels, it is possible to adjust the image settings like brightness, saturation etc. To access these settings, open the channel for editing, choose the Channel configuration tab, then click the Open imaging properties button.
Adjust the settings, then click Apply. If you like the result, click OK to close the dialog box and exit.
Use the Reset button to revert the latest changes. If you save the changes and close the window, next time you open it Macula Console will treat the previous settings as default and will reset to them (and not some other set of values). To reset the imaging settings to the factory defaults, use the camera Web interface.
Use the low resolution stream for image preview to compare the pictures and make sure the applied imaging settings look good on both streams (e.g., make sure important elements are visible).
Dewarp
Here, you can configure generic dewarp settings or enable dewarp engine for the Panomorph Enables® lens. For details, please see the subsequent topic on dewarp setup.
Video Configuration
This tab is only available for certain device drivers like ONVIF. For other devices, go to the Channel Configuration tab (described above).
Here, you can select stream properties for both main and secondary video streams. The options are fetched from the device so the availability may differ depending on the vendor.
The settings are changed on the device side, too, so make sure the target device is not configured in some other video management software in order to avoid configuration conflict.
Available settings:
Profile: choose one of the video streams profiles (built-in or pre-configured on the device side)
Encoding, resolution, quality, GOV length*, frame rate, bitrate, bitrate mode: choose one of the available settings according to your needs
By default, camera-side settings are used (whatever is currently set on the device side). You can override all settings or only some of them.
*Too long GOV intervals (hence, low i-frame rate) may cause recording and playback issues. Channels with too low i-frame rate will have a warning (orange color) in the Monitoring section of Macula Console, under Channels. To view this column, click the grid icon in the upper right corner and move the columns Main stream GOP size and Substream GOP size to the left, then click OK.
RTSP Configuration
This tab is only available for certain device drivers like ONVIF. For other devices, go to the Channel Configuration tab (described above).
By default, the default port of 554 is used for obtaining video over RTSP. Here, you can override the default port, and also choose between unicast and multicast. Also you can send RTSP port as a part of URL and allow to accept headers in RTSP URLs:
Enable RTSP port in URL: If enabled, the RTSP port will be explicitly included in the DESCRIBE request
Always use ACCEPT header in RTSP URLs: If enabled, the ACCEPT header will be added to all DESCRIBE requests
Edge Configuration
This tab is only available for certain device drivers like ONVIF. For other devices, go to the Channel Configuration tab (described above).
For some devices, Macula can fetch the recording done on the device side (on camera SD card). This tab contains some settings related to the edge stream synchronization.
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