Camera settings (explained)

You can view or edit settings, such as:

default frame rate
resolution
compression
the maximum number of frames between keyframes
on-screen date/time/text display for a selected camera, or for all cameras within a device group.

The drivers for the cameras determine the content of the Settings tab. The drivers vary depending on the type of camera.

For cameras that support more than one type of stream, for example MJPEG and MPEG-4/H.264/H.265, you can use multi-streaming, see Multi-streaming (explained).

When you change a setting, you can quickly verify the effect of your change if you have the Preview pane enabled. You cannot use the Preview pane to judge the effect of frame rate changes because the Preview pane's thumbnail images use another frame rate defined in the Options dialog box.

If you change the settings for Max. frames between keyframes and Max. frames between keyframes mode, it may lower the performance of some functionalities in XProtect Smart Client. For example, XProtect Smart Client requires a keyframe to start up showing video, so a longer period between keyframes, prolongs the XProtect Smart Client start up.