User Manual
Table Of Contents
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- Safety Information
- Hardware Overview
- Access the Product
- Media Streams
- Set Up the Product
- Video and Audio
- Configure the Live View Page
- Detectors
- Applications
- AXIS Video Motion Detection
- Events
- Recordings
- Languages
- System Options
- Axis multicable (sold separately)
- Troubleshooting
- Technical Specifications
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VideoandAudio
•Simplex–NetworkCameraspeakeronly-AudioistransmittedfromaclienttotheAxisproductandcanbeplayedby
aspeakerconnectedtotheproduct.TotransmitaudiousingtheLiveViewpage,theTalkandMicrophoneonbuttons
mustbothbeactive,seeAMCAudioControlsonpage1 1.
•Simplex–NetworkCameramicrophoneonly-Audiocapturedbytheproductmicrophoneistransmittedfromthe
Axisproducttooneormoreclients.
Tosettheaudiomode,gotoVideo&Audio>AudioSettingsandselectthedesiredmodefromtheAudiomodedrop-downlist.
AudioInput
AnexternalmicrophoneoralinesourcecanbeconnectedtotheAudio-inconnector.ConguretheaudioinputsettingsunderVideo
&Audio>AudioSettings.
Note
AnAxismulticableisrequiredwhenconnectingexternalaudioequipmenttotheAxisproduct.SeeAxismulticable(sold
separately).
Note
IfusingunbalancedLineinamonocontactmustbeused.Signalontipandgroundonsleeve.
SelectExternalMicrophonetouseanexternalmicrophoneorLinetouseaLineindevice,e.g.anaudiomixerformultiple
microphonesoramicrophonewithabuilt-inamplier,asaudiosource.
Selectthemicrophonesensitivitylevel(High/Low)dependingonthesoundlevelinthemonitoredarea.Forexample,iftheAxis
productisinstalledinanoisyenvironment,trysettingtheinputsensitivitytoLow.
TheMicrophonepoweroptionprovidesDCpowerforanexternalmicrophone.
Microphonepowershouldonlybeusedwithmicrophonesthathavenobattery.Thissettingshouldnotbeenabledwhenusinga
dynamicorbatterypoweredmicrophone.
Touseaprofessionalmicrophonerequiring48Vphantompower,youneedanexternalpowersupplyandabalanced-unbalanced
converter(audiotransformer)inbetween.
UsetheInputgaintocontrolthevolumeoftheaudioinput.Ifthesoundistoolow,chooseahigherdBvalue,toamplifythe
sound.Ifthesoundistoohigh,choosealowerdBvalue.TheLevelbargivesavisualrepresentationoftheaudiosignallevelindB
relativetothefull-scaleinputlevel.
•Green—thesignalisatagoodlevel.
•Yellow—thesignalisbecomingdistorted.
•Red—thesignalisdistorted.
UsetheEncodingoptiontoselectdigitalaudioencodingformat.
•AACrequiresalicenseforbothencodinganddecoding.AACistheleastcomplicatedandmostwidelyusedcodec.If
achievingthebestpossibleaudioqualityisapriority,AACistherecommendedcodectouse.AnAAClicenseisincluded
intheAxisproduct.
•G711isanunlicensedstandardcodecthatisusefulwhenintegratingaudiointoaVoIPsystem
•G726isanunlicensedspeechcodecthatismostcommonlyusedwithinthesecurityindustry.
Note
TheSampleratedenesthenumberoftimespersecondthesoundissampled.Ahighersampleratewillprovidebetteraudio
quality,butalsorequiresagreaterbandwidth.
SettherequiredBitratedependingontheselectedencoding.Ahigherbitratewillgivebetteraudioquality.Alowerbitrate
mayhavelatencyordelay,butwillrequirelessbandwidth.
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