Main View
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The following describes the various parts of the Main View page.
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Viewer Screen
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Video from cameras can be displayed singly or in groups of 4 - in a quad pattern. The title bar of the currently selected camera is shown in gray.
The camera number is shown in green when the camera is displaying live video.
Use this button to start manual recording. To see the current recording state, click the camera selection tab. See also the help on camera selection below.
Click to stop manual recording.
Important!
Please note that these icons do not control scheduled and alarm recording.

When the display from a camera is double-clicked, the display is shown in full-screen mode. Double-clicking a second time returns the display to normal mode.
This operation can also be performed by right-clicking the screen and selecting Full screen from the context menu, which also provides shortcuts to the player controls (reverse play, fast forward, etc.) and for showing/hiding the operating bar, etc.
Important!
When accessing the AXIS 262, user authentication is normally required twice. Although it is possible to check the Remember my password box, this is not recommended, as the level of security will be lowered.
If the remember password box has already been checked and you wish to change this, right-click anywhere outside the viewer screen and select Clear cache.
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The camera operation tools control how video is displayed for the currently selected camera. See below for the individual description for each button or function.
Displays the live stream from the camera currently selected in the quad view.
The screen displays 4 specified live streams in a quad pattern. To select one of the 4 cameras in the quad pattern, click on the live stream from that camera and then click the single view button (see above)
Synchronizes the playback from four cameras. This is useful for seeing what happened on all cameras as a certain point in time.
Note: The cameras currently displayed on the viewer screen cannot be changed when in synchronized mode.
Jumps to the oldest recorded data.
Fast reverse play. The playback speed is set from the drop-down list described below.
Reverse play.
Pause.
Play.
Fast forward play. The playback speed is set from the drop-down list described below.
Jump to the latest recorded data.
Jump to the previous image.
Jump to the next image.
From this drop-down list, select the fast play and fast reverse play speed. The value defines how many images are skipped.
Switch to the live stream.
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Camera Selection Tools 
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Use this tab to see camera status, and to start and stop manual recordings.
Configuration of manual recording is performed on the Manual recording page.

Clicking this button starts manual recording from all connected cameras.
Click this button to stop manual recording.
The following icons show camera status:
Indicates alarm recording.
Indicates manual or scheduled recording.
Indicates scheduled recording.
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Quad Pattern Selection 
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Use this tab to select a quad pattern from the currently configured patterns.
Quad patterns are configured on the Quad patterns page.
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Sequential switching 
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This tab is used to automatically switch live streams.
Select the cameras used in sequential switching.
Starts sequential switching.
Select the quad patterns used in sequential quad switching.
Starts sequential quad switching.
The sequential switching interval (in seconds) is set in this drop-down list.
Stops sequential switching.
Important!
The sequential switching buttons will only be active when more than 1 camera or pattern is selected.
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Playback Settings 
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This tab is used to specify how recordings are played back.
Plays back scheduled/manual recordings only.
Plays back all recordings. When the frame rates for manual/scheduled recordings and alarm recordings are different, the highest frame rate is used for playback.
Plays back alarm recordings only.
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Camera Link Button
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This button opens the home page of the currently selected camera. This provides access to the tools for configuring PTZ, audio, etc.

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All of the cameras currently configured in the AXIS 262 are listed here.

Important!

This list is not refreshed automatically. Click this button (under the alarm list) to update the list with the latest information.
Camera name: Selecting the camera name from the list displays the live stream from that camera.
Rec. start date: Displays the date of the oldest image that has not been overwritten, from all the available recorded images.
Alarm: The alarm state can be one the following:
New: This is displayed the first time the list is refreshed after an alarm is received. After clicking the text, this changes to Yes. This information is shown independently for each user, i.e. the alarm state might be New for one client but Yes for another.
Yes: This indicates that there has been alarm recording, but it is not new.
-: This is displayed as long as there has been no alarm recording.
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Time search 
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The time search tab.

After specifying the date from the calendar and the time from the pull-down menu, click this button to jump to the specified time.
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Alarm List 
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This tab displays thumbnails of recorded data in alarm recording mode. The thumbnail shows when the alarm started and stopped.

Select a thumbnail and click this button to jump to the recorded start time for that thumbnail.
Click this button to refresh the list.
Overwritten alarm recordings are not displayed in this list.
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Download 
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Use this tab to download recorded video to your computer.
These buttons specify the start and end times of downloaded video.
Jump to the picture at the specified time.
Specify the folder on your computer to download to.
Start download of the recorded video.
Specify the file name for the downloaded AVI-file.
Important!
The download tab is only available when the type of recording to playback is set to Manual/scheduled only or Alarm recordings only.
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