User manual

AXISQ1615-ENetworkCamera

VideoandAudio

Simplex—NetworkCameraspeakeronly-AudioistransmittedfromaclienttotheAxisproductandcanbeplayedbyaspeaker

connectedtotheproduct.TotransmitaudiousingtheLiveViewpage,theTalkandMicrophonebuttonsmustbothbeactive,

seeAMCAudioControlsonpage15.

Simplex—NetworkCameramicrophoneonly-AudiocapturedbytheproductmicrophoneistransmittedfromtheAxisproductto

oneormoreclients.

Tosettheaudiomode,gotoVideo&Audio>AudioSettingsandselectthedesiredmodefromtheAudiomodedrop-downlist.

AudioInput

AnexternalmicrophoneoralinesourcecanbeconnectedtotheAudio-inconnector.ConguretheaudioinputsettingsunderVideo

&Audio>AudioSettings.

Note

TheinternalmicrophoneonthisAxisproductcannotbeused.

Note

Theinternalmicrophoneisusedbydefault;theexternalmicrophoneisusedwhenconnected.Itispossibletodisablethe

internalmicrophonebyconnectingaplugtothemicinput.

ThefollowingaudiosourcesareavailableunderAudioInput:

•InternalMicrophone:Selectthisaudiosourcetousetheinternalmicrophone.

•ExternalMicrophone:Selectthisaudiosourcetousetheexternalmicrophone.

•Line:SelectthisaudiosourcetouseaLineindevice,thatis,anaudiomixerformultiplemicrophonesoramicrophone

withabuilt-inamplier.

Selectthe+30dBmicrophoneboostoptiontoamplifythesignaloftheexternalmicrophoneconnectedtotheAxisproduct.

ThisoptionisnotavailablewhentheLinesourceisselected.

TheMicrophonepoweroptionprovidesDCpowerforanexternalmicrophone.Microphonepowershouldonlybeusedwith

microphonesthatrequirethiskindofpowering,thatis,electretmicrophones.Thissettingshouldnotbeenabledwhenusingadynamic

orbatterypoweredmicrophone.Foruseofaprofessionalmicrophonerequiring12Vphantompower,thereisabuilt-inpowersupply.

Note

Touseaprofessionalmicrophonerequiring48Vphantompower,youneedanexternalpowersupplyandabalanced

converter(audiotransformer)inbetween.Theinputmustneverexceed12VDC.

UsetheInputgaintocontrolthevolume(dBFullScale)oftheaudioinput.Ifthesoundistoolow,chooseahigherdB,toamplify

thesound.Ifthesoundistoohigh,choosealowerdB.TheLevelbargivesavisualrepresentationoftheaudiosignallevelindB

relativetothefull-scaleinputlevel.

•Green—thesignalisatagoodlevel.

•Yellow—thesignalisbecomingdistorted.

•Red—thesignalisdistorted.

UsetheEncodingoptiontoselectdigitalaudioencodingformat.

•AACrequiresalicenseforbothencodinganddecoding.AACistheleastcomplicatedandmostwidelyusedcodec.If

achievingthebestpossibleaudioqualityisapriority,AACistherecommendedcodectouse.AnAAClicenseisincluded

intheAxisproduct.

•G711isanunlicensedstandardcodecthatisusefulwhenintegratingaudiointoaVoIPsystem

•G726isanunlicensedspeechcodecthatismostcommonlyusedwithinthesecurityindustry.