Investigations tab

Investigations settings

You can enable investigations so that people can use the Milestone Mobile client or XProtect Web Client to access recorded video and investigate incidents, and to prepare and download video evidence.

Name

Description

Investigations folder

Shows where your video exports are saved on your hard drive.

Limit size of investigations folder to

Enter the maximum number of megabytes that the investigations folder can contain. The default size is 2000 MB.

View investigations made by other users

Select this check box to allow users to access investigations that they did not create.

Include timestamps for AVI exports

Select this check box to include the date and time when the AVI file was downloaded.

Used codec for AVI exports

Select the compression format to use when preparing AVI packages for download.

The codecs that you can choose from can differ depending on your operating system. If you do not see the codec that you want, you can add it to the list by installing it on the computer where the Milestone Mobile server is running.

Used audio bit rate for AVI exports

Select from the list the appropriate audio bit rate when audio is included in your video export. The default is 160000 Hz.

Keep or delete data when exports fail (MKV and AVI)

Select whether to keep the data that was not successfully prepared for download in an investigation or to delete it.

Investigations

Name

Description

Investigations

Lists the investigations that have been set up in the system. Use the Delete or Delete all buttons if you no longer want to keep an investigation. This can be useful if, for example, you want to make more disk space available on the server.

Investigation details

To delete individual video files that were exported for an investigation, but to keep the investigation itself, select the investigation in the list. In the Investigation details group, click the delete icon to the right of the Database, AVI, or MKV fields for exports.

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