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It is possible This page describes how to set the following parameters of the Monitor interface boxwindow:

1. Window position.
2. Window Screen coordinates and window size.
3. Toolbar (displayed only in the List mode of camera’s windows displaying—see mode—see Configuring the display mode of camera windows section).
4. Enable and disable displaying The display of the number, name, time, menu and , camera frame as well as additional info on the camera in the Surveillance window on the Video , and additional information in surveillance windows displayed on the video surveillance monitor.
5. The ability to select cameras that you want to display in the surveillance window using the special menu in which cameras are grouped, and you can use a search.

The setup is performed in the following wayTo set the parameters of the Monitor interface box, do the following:

1. Go to the Basic settings tab on the settings panel for of the Monitor interface object.
   
2. In From the Monitor drop-down listlist (1), select the monitor number in the operating system (computer monitor), the coordinates for which coordinates are to must be set further (1).
3. Set the position of the Monitor monitor window in one of the following ways:
   1. Manually:

      1. Set the coordinates of the left upper corner of the Monitor interface box: fields window: the X (the horizontal indent from the left edge border of the image) and Y (the vertical indent from the upper edge border of the image) fields (2). Coordinates are set in expressed as a percentage relative to the screen size horizontally and vertically correspondingly, respectively.

      2. Set the dimensions size of the Monitor interface box window:  the W (window’s window width) and H (window’s window height) fields (3). Sizes are set in Dimensions are expressed as a percentage relative to the screen size horizontally and vertically correspondingly, respectively.

         To display a the toolbar in the Monitor interface box interface window, you must set the switch to the List  group is to be switched in theposition on the Basic settings tab and then set the   Control panel check box is to be set checkbox (5).

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         If the toolbar is on enabled, window’s the H window height H is automatically equal to the window’s W window width W . The ability to You cannot set the width less than 20% is also disabled in this case: such . Such a setting is saved but not isn't applied.

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         By manually setting the coordinates, you can adjust the position of the Monitor the Monitor interface box window on several monitors at the same time. This You can be used use it when setting up a the video wall. For example, if it is necessary you want to stretch one Monitor window to two computer monitors, set you must set X=0, Y=0, W=200, H=100. If it is necessary you want to stretch one Monitor window to four computer monitors, set X=0, Y=0, W=200, H=200.  Note that if there is one computer monitor, and X and Y coordinates are greater than 100 or width and height are greater than 100, the Monitor window will not be window isn't displayed on this single one monitor or will be is displayed incompletely.

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         When configuring you set up the video wall using Windows means, note that the load on video cards to which the physical monitors for the video wall are connected will be is distributed unevenly, and you cannot be regulated regulate it by using Axxon PSIM means. For an even load distribution on the CPU and GPU, you should configure must set up the video wall using with the NVIDIA® Mosaic™ technology and NVIDIA Quadro Sync device using the NVIDIA® Quadro® Sync device (see NVIDIA documentation).

   2. Using a the test window:
      1. Click the X Image Added button (4).
      2. Place the opened test window Specify dimensions in a test window in the position where the Monitor window should must be displayed:
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      3. Click the OK button. As a result, the coordinates in the X, Y, W, H fields will be are set in accordance with the size and position of the test window.

4. If moving you want to move the Monitor interface box is to be enabled window, set the Allow moving checkbox (6).

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   This setting is relevant only when you use the toolbar is in use.

5. In the horizontal: and  and vertical: fields  fields of the Quad splitter group enter (7), set the number of video surveillance windows which will be that are displayed in the Monitor in horizontal and vertical directions correspondingly (7). If Video surveillance monitor window horizontally and vertically, respectively. If you don't set one of these values is not specified then , the default grid of video surveillance windows, depending on the selected layout, is displayed on the Monitorin the Video surveillance monitor window. The maximum number of video surveillance windows vertically and horizontally is 64 and 64, respectively.
   If you create several layouts, use the CycleByLayouts=1 parameter of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\AxxonSoft\PSIM\ registry key (see Registry keys reference guide) to enable the layouts slideshow.
   

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   Fields in the Quad splitter group are inactive if the you select the Alarm cameras mode is selected (see see Configuring the display mode of camera windows).
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   title	The Quad quad splitter settings will be are ignored if the CycleByLayouts=1 key is set, which enables paging through layouts (see Registry keys reference guide)user is on the previously created layout.

6. If you want to save the ratio of the width and height of the video coming from the camera when displaying it is displayed in the Surveillance surveillance window, then set the the Keep camera ratio checkbox on the Basic settings tab (8). If you set the checkbox is set, there may can be some an empty space in the Surveillance windowsurveillance window that isn't occupied by the video during the display. If you clear the checkbox is clear, the video fits the entire area occupies all available space of the Surveillance surveillance window, while the ratio may can be affected.

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   Necessity to use other window proportions can occur while working When you work with widescreen monitors, monitors of portrait orientation portrait-oriented monitors, or in any other cases. The Monitor<monitor_id>, it may be necessary to use other window proportions. For this, use the Monitor<monitor_id>_cw, monitor<monitormonitor<monitor_id>id>_ch, monitor<monitormonitor<monitor_id>id>_w43, monitor<monitormonitor<monitor_id>id>_h43 registry keys are used in these cases. Detailed information about these registry keys is given in the (see Registry keys reference guide).

7. Set the Smoothing checkbox (9) to display the video with greater of great resolution on which the ladder effect appears while displaying when it is displayed in the small window (9).

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   When using you use the smoothing function, the load on the CPU of the computer where the video is displayed increases significantly (up to 30%). As a result, if the computer does not have enough lacks the resources to use this function, the video display speed (fpsFPS) decreasescan decrease, the response to telemetry commands slows down, etc. So, and so on. Due to this, we recommend using this setting is recommended only for displaying video from analog cameras or the low-resolution video. The function affects only displaying the video display in the Video video surveillance monitor. The original video stream from the camera is streamed comes to the archive and to detection toolsdetectors.

   

   Video The example of the video image received with the Smoothing smoothing function
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   The example of the video image received without the Smoothing smoothing function
   
   

8. By default, all elements of the Surveillance surveillance window (, such as number, name, time, menu and , camera frame, as well as and the name of the video surveillance monitor) , are displayed except for the additional info on the camera information (see Additional information on camera). To disable displaying the display of these elements set , clear the corresponding checkboxes clear (in group 10).

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   These parameters were set using ShowName, ShowTime, ShowTitle, ShowBorder, ShowButtons and ShowID registry keys (see Registry keys reference guide) until Axxon PSIM version 4.10.1. The date can be displayed on the video You can also enable the display of the date next to the camera time if using the ShowDate registry key is set.

9. In the surveillance window, you can switch between cameras using the Camera submenu (see Selecting camera to display in Surveillance window). Set the Select camera with grouping and search checkbox (11) to group cameras in this menu by computers so that you can search among them.
10. To save all the changes, click the the Apply button (1112).

The Setting the parameters of the Monitor interface box are now set.window is complete.