1.1.3 About the “Live” page
Note
The buttons and setting items displayed on the “Live” page can be changed depending on the user rights of the accessing user. You can set the user right settings from “User auth.” under “User mng.”. (→2.7.1 Configure the settings relating to the user authentication [User auth.])
[Login] button
This button is displayed when “User auth.” is “On” and a person other than the administrator logs in, or when “User auth.” is “Off” and “Guest User” is set to “Use”. (→2.7.1 Configure the settings relating to the user authentication [User auth.])
Even in the above case, the [Login] button will not be displayed if “Host auth.” is set to “On”, and the camera browser is opened from a host with administrator rights.
If login fails, close all the browsers, open the “Live” page and login once again.
[Setup] button*1
Displays the setup menu.
Display source selection
You can select the source to display in the main area.
Dual: Displays 2 screens with images from both Source1 and Source2.
1: Displays images from Source1.
2: Displays images from Source2.
[Live view] pull-down menu
You can select and switch to the image to be displayed in the main area from the following:
When “Dual” is selected: Stream(2)/JPEG(2)
When “1” or “2” is selected: Stream(1)/Stream(2)/JPEG(1)
The image in the main area is displayed based on the contents set in Stream(1) – (2) (→Source1-Stream(1)/ Source1-Stream(2)/ Source2-Stream(1)/ Source2-Stream(2)), JPEG(1) (→"Live" page (Initial display)). Also, the initial stream displayed when the camera is accessed can be set in “Initial display stream” of the [Image] tab.
Note
When “1” or “2” is selected and the image capture size is larger than “1280×720”, the image may become smaller than the actual size depending on the window size of the web browser.
When “Dual” is selected, regardless of the image capture size, the image may become smaller than the actual size depending on the window size of the web browser.
Stream information display
Displays the setup for stream encoding format, image capture size, bit rate, and frame rate for the live view of a stream.
Note
Displays the values set in the stream. The actual bit rate and frame rate vary depending on the network environment and the used PC.
[Brightness] buttons*2
The brightness is adjustable from 0 to 255. Click the button to make the image brighter, or click the button to make the image darker. If you click the [Normal] button, the display will be reset to default.
[Viewer software] button
Starts installation of the viewer software for display. This button will not be available if the viewer software is already installed on the PC, or if the “Automatic installation” of the [Viewer software (nwcv4Ssetup.exe)] in the [Basic] tab is set to “Off”. (→[Viewer software (nwcv4Ssetup.exe)] - [Automatic installation])
Camera title
The camera title entered for “Camera title” on the [Basic] tab will be displayed. (→[Camera title])
Full screen button
Images will be displayed on a full screen. If the full screen button is clicked once when the image displayed in the main area is smaller than the main area, the image is displayed corresponding to its image capture size. If the full screen button is clicked once when images are displayed corresponding to their image capture sizes, images are displayed in full screen. To return to the “Live” page when displaying an image in full screen, press the [Esc] key.
Note
During “Dual” display, this button is not displayed.
Snap shot button
Click this button to take a picture (a still picture). The picture will be displayed on a newly opened window. When right-clicking on the displayed image, the pop-up menu will be displayed. It is possible to save the image on the PC by selecting “Save” from the displayed pop-up menu.
When “Print” is selected, printer output is enabled.
Note
If the viewer software is not installed, “Save” and “Print” will not be displayed in the pop-up menu.
The following settings may be required.
Open Internet Explorer, click [Tools] → [Internet Options] → [Security] → [Trusted Sites] → [Sites]. Register the camera address on [Website] of the displayed trusted windows. After registration, close the web browser, and then access the camera again.
When it takes longer than the specified period to obtain the snap shot picture due to the network environment, the snap shot picture may not be displayed.
If the image capture size specified for JPEG cannot be obtained, JPEG images are displayed with the image capture size that could be obtained.
Therefore, when JPEG images obtained with snap shot are displayed on a PC, the displayed image size may differ from the captured sized.
During “Dual” display, this button is not displayed.
Main area
Images from the camera will be displayed in this area.
When being adjusted, the status of brightness (→[Brightness status display]) will be displayed.
Note
When the camera is operated by a user with a low access level, images displayed on the screen may be changed temporarily. This does not affect operation of the camera.
Depending on the PC in use, screen tearing* may occur when the shooting scene drastically changes due to the GDI restrictions of the OS.
*A phenomenon in which portions of the screen are displayed out of alignment.
*1
Only operable by users whose access level is “1. Administrator”.
*2
Only operable by users whose access level is “1. Administrator” or “2. Camera control” when “On” is selected for “User auth.” (→2.7.1 Configure the settings relating to the user authentication [User auth.])