About Events - Axis P5514–E User Manual

AXIS P55 PTZ Network Camera Series
Setup
The Motion JPEG stream uses considerable amounts of bandwidth, but provides excellent image quality and access to every image
contained in the stream.
H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10/AVC
Note
H.264 is a licensed technology. The Axis product includes one H.264 viewing client license. Installing additional unlicensed
copies of the client is prohibited. To purchase additional licenses, contact your Axis reseller.
H.264 can, without compromising image quality, reduce the size of a digital video file by more than 80% compared to the Motion
JPEG format and by as much as 50% compared to the MPEG-4 standard. This means that less network bandwidth and storage space
are required for a video file. Or seen another way, higher video quality can be achieved for a given bitrate.
Find out more at axis.com/compression-formats
How to reduce bandwidth and storage
Important
If you reduce the bandwidth it can result in less details in the picture.
1. Go to live view and select H.264.
2. Go to the Stream tab.
3. Do one or more of the following:
- Turn on the Zipstream functionality and select the desired level.
- Turn on the GOP and set a high GOP length value.
- Increase the compression.
- Turn on the dynamic FPS.
How to set up network storage
To store recordings on the network, you need to set up network storage:
1. Go to Settings > System > Storage.
2. Click Setup under Network storage.
3. Enter the IP address of the host server.
4. Enter the name of the shared location on the host server.
5. Move the switch if the share requires a login, and enter username and password.
6. Click Connect.

About events

The event pages allow you to configure your product to perform actions when different events occur. For example, the product
can start a recording or send an email notification when motion is detected. The set of conditions that defines how and when
the action is triggered is called an action rule.
How to record video when the camera detects motion
This example explains how to set up the camera to start recording to the SD card five seconds before it detects motion and to
stop one minute after.
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