Continuous Recording - Axis Q7401 User Manual

Continuous Recording

The AXIS Q7401 video encoder can be configured to continuously save video to local storage. Automatic Disk Cleanup should
be enabled when using Continuous Recording to prevent the local storage from becoming full. See Storage - Disk
Management, on page 42.
Recording Settings
Enabled - Must be checked to record continuously.
Disk - Shows as SD Card for this product.
Stream Profile - Select a stream profile to use for recordings. For more information, see Stream Profiles, on page 14.
Note: The recording will be restarted and all previous continuous recordings will be removed if Stream profile is changed.
Click Save to activate these settings.
Recording
Start time - Shows the time the current continuous recording began. If no continuous recording is taking place the status will
display as Not started.
Duration - Shows the length of the current continuous recording.
Restart - Click to start a new recording.
Note: All previous continuous recording data will be removed.
From - To play or download the recording from a point in time, enter the year, month, day and the time in hours and minutes.
Duration - Enter the amount of the recording to play or download in hours, minutes and seconds.
Play... - Click this button to open a window to play the selected amount of the continuous recording.
Download - Click this button to download the recorded video to a storage disk. The package downloaded is a zip file
containing a minimum of 3 files, of which the .mkv or Matroska file is the actual recording. The zip file is named after the time
set in the From field.
Notes:
• The zip file will contain at least the time period selected. The first matroska file contains the start time, and the
last matroska contains at least the stop time
• To play recordings in Windows Media Player download and install AXIS Matroska File Splitter from
www.axis.com/techsup/software/
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