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VideoXpert® Professional v 3.17 Operations Manual
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Configuring Recording
The Recording tab allows you to assign data sources (video and audio) to the recorderwithin the VX
System you have selected.
You can assign devices to the recorder and create recording schedules through VxToolbox and
VxStorage Portal; assigning data sources to a recorder without creating a schedule will prevent data
sources from recording. You can perform advanced VxStorage configuration by connecting to the
recorder using its IP address on port 9091.
Configuring a Recorder
1. Click the Recording tab.
2. At the top of the left panel, click Recorders.
3. Click to select the recorder to configure.
4.
If available at the bottom of the left panel, click the Edit selected recorder's configuration icon ( ).
Not every recorder has configurable settings. Update recorder configuration settings, depending
on which are available for the recorder type.
a. (Optional) To change the recorder name, enter a new value in the Name field.
b. (Optional)To preserve recorder space, click to select the checkbox for, and then enter a
number in the Reduce framerate for video after [#] days field, either by typing-in a number or
selecting one using the up and down arrows
When enabled, this option removes P-frames from all recordings older than the specified
number of days, leaving only the I-frames. This cannot be set further back than the retention
limit.
c. (Optional) If available, under Maximum Retention Limit, click to select the checkbox for, and
then enter a number in the Discard video after [#] Days field, either by typing-in a number or
selecting one using the up and down arrows.
d. If available, click to select the radio button for the Transmission Method field: Multicast or
Unicast.
e. If available, in the Stream to Record area, in the left-most field, select Primary, Secondary,
or Tertiary from the drop-down menu; in the right-most field, select None or one of the other
streams that are available from the drop-down menu.
Specifically, if you selected Primary in the left-most field, Secondary and Tertiary will be
available in the right-most field; if you selected Secondary, Primary and Tertiary will be
available; if you selected Tertiary, Primary and Secondary will be available.
f. (Optional)If available, for cameras that have local recordings, click to select the checkbox for
Auto-backfill recording gaps using on-camera storage.
When selected, if there is a gap in recording of a camera (an edge device), the recorder will
query the camera for recordings, and automatically download video and audio (if present) to
fill the gap.
If you select this checkbox, you must also:
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Type or select a number from the drop-down menu in the Download data from up to [#]
cameras at a time field.
Downloading from more cameras uses more bandwidth, which will slow the data
transmission rate.
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