Info

Name and description, priority of existing profiles and an overview of which roles use the profile.

If a user is a member of more than one role, each with their individual Smart Client profile, the user gets the Smart Client profile with the highest priority.

General

Settings such as show/hide and mini- and maximize menu settings, login/-out, startup, timeout, info and messaging options, and Sequence Explorer settings.

Advanced

Advanced settings such as maximum decoding threads, deinterlacing and time zone settings.

Maximum decoding threads controls how many decoding threads are used to decode video streams. It can help improve performance on multi-core computers in live as well as playback mode. The exact performance improvement depends on the video stream. It is mainly relevant if using heavily coded high-resolution video streams like H.264/H.265, for which the performance improvement potential can be significant, and less relevant if using, for example, JPEG or MPEG-4.

With deinterlacing, you convert video into a non-interlaced format. Interlacing determines how an image is refreshed on a screen. The image is refreshed by first scanning the odd lines in the image, then scanning the even lines. This allows a faster refresh rate because less information is processed during each scan. However, interlacing may cause flickering, or the changes in half of the image's lines may be noticeable.

Live

Availability of live tabs/panes, camera playback and overlay buttons, bounding boxes, and live-related MIP plug-ins.

Playback

Availability of playback tabs/panes, layout of print reports, independent playback, bookmarks, bounding boxes, and playback-related MIP plug-ins.

Setup

Availability of general setup/panes/buttons, setup-related MIP plug-in and rights to edit a map and to edit live video buffering.

Exports

Paths, privacy masks, video and still image formats and what to include when exporting these, export formats for XProtect Smart Client – Player and much more.

Timeline

Whether to include audio or not, visibility of indication of time and motion, and finally how to handle playback gaps.

You can also select whether to show additional data or additional markers from other sources.

Access Control

Select if access request notifications should pop up on the XProtect Smart Client screen when triggered by events.

Smart Map

Specify settings for the Smart Map feature.

You can specify whether OpenStreetMaps is available for use as a geographic background, and whether XProtect Smart Client will automatically create locations when a user adds a custom overlay to the Smart Map.

You can also specify how often you want the system to delete data related to Smart Maps from your computer. To help XProtect Smart Client display Smart Map faster, the client saves map data in the cache on your computer. Over time this might slow down your computer.

If you want to use Bing Maps or Google Maps as geographic backgrounds, enter a key for a Bing Maps API, or a private key and client ID for the Google Static Maps API.