User's Manual

AXISP3365-VFixedDomeNetworkCamera

VideoandAudio

AudioModes

TheAxisproductsupportsthefollowingaudiomodes:

•Fullduplex–Simultaneoustwo-wayaudioallowingtheAxisproducttotransmitandreceiveaudioatthesametime.

Thereisnoechocancellation;iffeedbackloopsappear,trymovingthemicrophoneorthespeaker.

•Half-duplex–AudiocanbetransmittedtoandfromtheAxisproductbutonlyinonedirectionatatime.Totransmit

audiousingtheLiveViewpage,usetheTalkandListenbuttons,seeAMCAudioControlsonpage13.

•Simplex–NetworkCameraspeakeronly-AudioistransmittedfromaclienttotheAxisproductandcanbeplayedby

aspeakerconnectedtotheproduct.TotransmitaudiousingtheLiveViewpage,theTalkandMicrophoneonbuttons

mustbothbeactive,seeAMCAudioControlsonpage13.

•Simplex–NetworkCameramicrophoneonly-Audiocapturedbytheproductmicrophoneistransmittedfromthe

Axisproducttooneormoreclients.

Tosettheaudiomode,gotoVideo&Audio>AudioSettingsandselectthedesiredmodefromtheAudiomodedrop-downlist.

AudioInput

AnexternalmicrophoneoralinesourcecanbeconnectedtotheAudio-inconnector.ConguretheaudioinputsettingsunderVideo

&Audio>AudioSettings.

Note

Theinternalmicrophoneisusedbydefault;theexternalmicrophoneisusedwhenconnected.Itispossibletodisablethe

internalmicrophonebyconnectingaplugtothemicinput.

SelectMicrophonetouseanexternalmicrophoneorLinetouseaLineindevice,e.g.anaudiomixerformultiplemicrophones

oramicrophonewithabuilt-inamplier,asaudiosource.

Selectthe+30dBmicrophoneboostoptiontoamplifythesignaloftheexternalmicrophoneconnectedtotheAxisproduct.

Microphoneboostoptionisusefulwhenamicrophone'svolumeistoolowandyouwanttoincreaseit.Thisoptionisnotavailable

whentheLinesourceisselected

Touseaprofessionalmicrophonerequiring48Vphantompower,youneedanexternalpowersupplyandabalanced-unbalanced

converter(audiotransformer)inbetween.

TheMicrophonepoweroptionprovidesDCpowerforanexternalmicrophone.Microphonepowershouldonlybeusedwith

microphonesthathavenobatteryandwhenusingtheinternalmicrophone.Thissettingshouldnotbeenabledwhenusingadynamic

orbatterypoweredmicrophone.Microphonepowerwillnotharmthemicrophone;ifyouareuncertain,tryswitchingitoffandon.

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.