User`s manual

AXIS P7214 Video Encoder

Recordings

TheAxisproductcanbeconﬁgured to record video continuously or according to a n action rule:

• To start a continuous recording, see

page 32

• To set up action rules, se e

page 30

• To access recordings, see

Recording List, on page 32

•Toconﬁgure camera controlle d storage, see

Storage, on page 40

Recording List

Recorded videos are listed on the Recordings > List p age. The list shows each recording’s start date and tim e, duration and the

event that triggered the recording.

To play or download a recording, follow these steps:

1. Go to Recordings > List.

2. Use the ﬁlte r to narrow the list of recordings. Enter the desired ﬁlter criteria and click Filter. Some ﬁlters may take

a long time to complete.

3. Select the recording.

4. Click Play to play the recording, or click Download to dow nload the recording.

Multiple recordings can be downloaded at the sa m e time . Select the r ecor dings and click Download. The downloaded ﬁle is a z ip ﬁle

containing a minimum of three ﬁles, of which the M a troska (mkv) ﬁlesaretheactualrecordings.The recordings are time-stamped

with the date and time they were downloaded (that is, not the date the

recordings were made).

Note

To play recordings in Windows Media Player, A XIS Matroska File Splitter m ust be installe d. AXIS M a tros ka File Splitter

can be downloaded from www.axis.com/techsup/software

For detailed recording and video informat ion, select a recording and click Properties.

To remove a recording, select the recording and click Remove.

Continuous Recording

The Axis product can be conﬁgured to continuously save video to a storage device. See

Storage, on page 40

for more inform ation

about storage devices. To prevent the disk from becoming full, it is recommended to conﬁgure the disk to autom atica lly remove

old recordings.

To start a continuous recording, follo w these steps:

1. Go to Recordings > Continuous.

2. Select Enabled.

3. Select type of storage device from the Disk list.

4. Select a Stream proﬁle to use for continuous recordings.

5. Click Save to save and start the recording.