User manual
Table Of Contents
- Overview
- Ready to Use
- Software Installation
- Accessing the Network Camera
- Using VIVOTEK Recording Software
- Using 3GPP-compatible Mobile Devices
- Using RTSP Players
- Main Page
- Client Settings
- Configuration
- System > General settings
- System > Homepage layout
- System > Logs
- System > Parameters
- System > Maintenance
- Media > Image
- Media > Video
- Media > Video
- Network > General settings
- Network > Streaming protocols
- Network > SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
- Security > User accounts
- Security > HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL)
- Security > Access List
- PTZ > PTZ settings
- Event > Event settings
- Applications > Motion detection
- Applications > Tampering detection
- Applications > Package management - a.k.a., VADP (VIVOTEK Application Development Platform)
- Recording > Recording settings
- Local storage > SD card management
- Local storage > Content management
- Appendix

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User's Manual - 67
• Smart codec: Smart codec effectively reduces the quality of the whole or the non-
interested areas on a screen and therefore reduces the bandwidth consumed.
You can manually specify the video quality for the foreground and the background areas.
Select an operation mode if Smart codec is preferred.
- Auto tracking: The Auto mode congures the whole screen into the non-interested area.
The video quality of part of the screen returns to normal when one or more objects
move in that area. The remainder of the screen where there are no moving objects
(no pixel changes) will still be transmitted in low-quality format.
- Manual: The Manual mode allows you to congure 3 ROI windows (Region of Interest,
with Foreground quality) on the screen. Areas not included in any ROI windows
will be considered as the non-interested areas. The details in the ROI areas will be
transmitted in a higher-quality video format.
As illustrated below, the upper screen may contain little details of your interest,
while the sidewalk on the lower screen is included in an ROI window.
X
ROI_0
X
ROI_0
ROI
non-interested
Slide bar to the right - higher quality in the ROI
areas
Slide bar to the left - higher quality in the non-ROI
areas.