User's Manual

AXIS M1043–W Network Camera

Accessing the product

To install the Axis product, refer to the Installation Guide sup plie d with the product.

The product can be used with most operating systems and browsers. The recommended browsers are Internet Explorer with Wind ows,

Safari with Macintosh and Firefox w ith other operating systems. See

Technical Speciﬁcations, on page 55

Note

• To v iew streaming video in Internet Explor er, allow installation of AXIS Media Control (AMC) when prompte d.

• QuickTime

is also supported for viewing H.264 streams and for audio.

• If your computer restricts the use of additional software components, the product can be conﬁgured to use a Java

applet for viewing Motion JPEG.

• The Axis product includes (1) H.264 decoder license for view ing video streams and (1) AAC audio license. These licenses are

automatically installed with AMC. The administrator can disable the installation of the decoders, to prevent installation of

unlicensed copies.

Access from a browser

1. Start a browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari).

2. Enter the IP address or host nam e of the Axis product in the browser’s Location/Address ﬁeld. To access the product from a

Macintosh computer (Mac OS X), click on the Bonjour tab and select the product from the drop-down list.

If you do not know the IP address, use AXIS IP Utility to locate the product on the network. For more information on how to

discover and assign an IP address, refer to the Installation Guide.

3. Enter your user name and password. If this is the ﬁrst time the product is accessed, the root password must ﬁrst be

conﬁgured; for instructions see

Set the root password, on page 9

4. The product’s Live View page appears in your browser.

Note

The layout of the Live View page may have been customized to meet speciﬁcrequi

rements. Consequently, some of the

examples and f unctions featured here may differ from those displayed in your own Live View page.