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• Light Frequency: Used for Flickering Reduction. Select the electric power frequency used in the
region, either 50 or 60Hz.
• Frame Rate: For Primary Stream, this is the number of frames compressed in every second.
You can control the network traffic with this parameter. For Secondary Stream, it can be set to
manner of 1/2, 1/4, 1/8... of the primary stream.
• Image Size: Select the resolution of each channel’s video
• Encoding Standard: Select the compression method of each video, either M-JPEG or H.264
format. It is not allowed to set both channels to M-JPEG.
Below is the table of images sizes.
Video Format SXGA D1 CIF QCIF
NTSC - 704 x 480 352 x 240 160 x 112
PAL - 704 x 576 352 x 288 160 x 144
VGA - 640 x 480 320 x 240 160 x 112
1.3M Pixel 1280 x 1024 640 x 480 320 x 240 160 x 112
To save the setting, click Apply button.
Camera Configuration
On the lower part of Camera & Motion Configuration menu, select a channel to configure.
In the example shown below, Primary Stream is set to M-JPEG, and Secondary Stream set to H.264
for compression format. Enter detailed parameters of the camera selected here.
Primary Stream of (H.264)
When the image sensor is VGA CMOS/CCD or 1.3M CMOS/CCD, there will be no Hue, Saturation,
Contrast, or Brightness setting items shown. Only with NTSC or PAL will those parameters be
configured.
• Camera Name: Enter the name of the channel in up to 21 alphanumeric or up to 10 Unicode
letters.
Note:
Light Frequency parameter
is supported only in FW1170.
Note: Frame Rate control for secondary stream is not supported by FW1173-MM, FW-
1175-MM, and FW-1176-MM.