User manual

Preliminary MAVIX
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As shown in the figure bellow, on the upper left side of the main window (Control
area) there is a list of all cameras which belong to sites the logged in user has access
to, the cameras may belong to one single site or several different sites.
By default four live video screens are available for displaying live video stream.
When a camera in the list is selected for display (by double clicking it), the video
stream from that camera is displayed in the Selected Window. Double clicking a
display window will bring it into full screen mode, and all other three display
windows will disappear, double clicking that display window again will bring us back
to quad mode display, and all four display windows will reappear. A single right click
on a display window will cause a popup menu to be displayed with two options:
Record and Snapshot. Selecting the first option will open a small dialog with two
buttons Start and Stop, (See figure 12) to start recording the live video stream
displayed on that window, the user should click the START button, the dialog frame
will turn into red, and the caption ‘Recording’ will appear, to stop recording the user
should click the STOP button, the caption ‘Recording’ will disappear. The recorded
stream is stored on local disk as an AVI file. The name of the created file is a
concatenation of the word Manual, the recording time and the suffix AVI (Example:
Manual.142843.avi).
Clicking the Snapshot option in the popup menu, will create on local disk a single
snapshot BMP file of the displayed live video. While displaying live video stream, it
is possible to switch between cameras, by simply selecting any one of the four active
windows currently displaying live video, and then double clicking any other camera
from the camera list (at the control area), the new selected camera will immediately
start sending video stream to that window.