View video from cameras in Management Application

You can view live video from single cameras directly in the Management Application:

Expand Advanced Configuration, and expand Cameras and Storage Information.
Select the relevant camera to view live video from that camera. Above the live video, you find a summary of the most important properties for the selected camera. Below the live video, you find information about the camera's resolution and average image file size. For cameras using MPEG or H.264, you also see the bit rate in Mbit/second.

Important: Viewing of live video in the Management Application may under certain circumstances affect any simultaneous recording from the relevant camera.

Especially three scenarios are important to consider:

Some cameras supporting multistreaming may halve their frame rate or respond with other negative effects if you open a second stream.

If a camera delivers live video in a very high quality, de-coding of images may increase the load on the Recording Server service, which may in turn affect ongoing recordings negatively.

Cameras that do not support multiple simultaneous video streams cannot connect to the surveillance server and the Management Application at the same time. Milestone recommends that you stop the Recording Server service when you configure such devices for motion detection and PTZ.