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To check productivity of video processingwork with the fps.exe utility, do the following:

1. Start Run the fps.exe utility (see Starting and shutting down the fps.exe utility).
2. Select the video source.
3. Set the check checkup parameters.
4. Run the check checkup and read into its results.

Selecting the video source

The video source can be either an archive file or a directly the video server archive recorded on specific camerasby the set cameras can be the video source for the performance checkup.

If the video source is an archive file, select it as follows:

To select the video source file, do the following:

1. Click the Path button.
2. Select the File value from the drop-down list.

Click File and then double click the required file in the Windows standard Open box (1).

3. In the Open Windows standard dialog window that appears, use the double mouse click to select the required file.
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   The full name of the
selected
5. file is displayed in the
Video source
6. Path field
(2)
7. .

If the video source server archive is a the video server archive, make sure the source, then you must start Axxon PSIM is running on that this server and all create the required cameras are created in the hardware tree before performing the check.

Select To select the video archive video source as followssource, do the following:

1. Click
Server
2. the Path button (1)
. The Cameras dialog box
3. .
4. Select the Server value from the drop-down list.
   As a result, the Cameras window opens.
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5. In the IP address field (2),
specify
6. enter the IP address of the Axxon PSIM video server
(2)
7. .
8. Click the Get cameras button (3). If you establish the connection
with
9. to the video server
is established
10. , the Cameras field displays the list of cameras.
11. Set the
check boxes
12. checkboxes next to the cameras
to check performance using their archive
13. , the archive of which you want to use for the performance analysis (4)
or
14. .
15. To select all cameras, set the Select all
check box to select all the cameras in the list
16.  checkbox (5).
17. Click the OK button (6).
18. The selected cameras are added
into
19. to the
Video source
20. Path field
(7)
21. .

Setting the

...

checkup parameters

Set To set the parameters of performance check as followsthe performance checkup, do the following:

1. Activate Compression To check checkbox to check how many fps  frames per time unit can be compressed by the given computer can compress , set the Check compression (1) checkbox.
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2. To check
checkbox to check
3. how many
fps 
4. frames per time unit can be decompressed by the given computer
can decompress(2).Select the Copy for stream check box to create a separate copy of each stream file in the RAM in order to avoid conflicts during the check (3).
5. , set the Check decompression (2) checkbox.
6. As a result, you can select a decoder from the Decoder drop-down list: Hardware, Software.
   1. For the hardware decoder, select the destination from the Destination drop-down list: System memory (CPU), Video memory (GPU).
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   2. For the software decoder, select a decompressor from the Decompressor drop-down list.
7. If you need to create the separate file copy for each thread in the RAM to avoid errors during the checkup, set the Copy per thread (3) checkbox. This option increases the memory usage when you work with
This function increases memory consumption when running
8. the fps.exe utility.
Select
9. From the Codec (4) drop-down list, select the required compressor version
from the drop-down list Codec (4).Enter
10. .
11. In the Channels per core (5) field, enter the required number of the emulated cameras
in the field Channels amount (5)
12. .
    

    Info
    title Note

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13. This setting is

actual only with emulation of pattern

14. relevant only when you emulate the template set of

channels

15. frames.

16. In the
Number of
17. Use CPU cores
in use field specify
18. (6) field, enter the number of the CPU cores
to be used for performance check (6).
19. Select the required value of frames compression from the dropdown list Quality (inversely to compression level) (7).
20. When necessary, set the directory where frames extracted from the video would be unzipped by clicking Image Removed next to the Jpeg images storage folder field (8).

Running the check and reading into its results

1. that you want to use at the performance test.
2. From the Quality (7) drop-down list, select the required number of frames compression (inverselyproportional to the compression level).
3. If necessary, open the Select folder window by using the Folder for jpeg files (8) button, or in the Folder for jpeg files field, specify the directory to which the extracted video frames from the video fragment are unpacked.

Running the checkup and reading results

To start testing the performance of the video processing, click the Start buttonClick the Start button to run video processing tester (1).

As a result, the Statistics field displays the parameters of the video processing productivity will bedisplayed in the title bar of the utility window (2)performance.

If the Jpeg images storage folder is selectedyou select Folder for jpeg files, the frames used for testing video processing will be the performance testing are recorded to the selected .folder for jpeg files storage folder.
The example of the emulated frame is shown below:given in the figure.

To stop the testing process, click the Stop button (3).
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