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Streamed Video vs. Still Image
By: ScottL
Rank: Frequent User
Topics: 25
From: n/a
Added: 06/17/2011 - 12:42 AM

Anyone know what determines the length of time a PTZ cam will stay in streaming mode (with the PTZ sliders) before dropping back to still image mode?

I've got the "Move to saved position after XX inactive minutes" set to 30, but it consistently reverts to still mode after five or six minutes.
By: sse
Rank: Forum Addict
Topics: 73
From: n/a
Added: 06/17/2011 - 07:52 AM

Hello Scott

the "Move to saved position after XX inactive minutes" controls the PTZ position of the camera. Use this to have your camera point to a default view when nobody is controlling it.

The javascript and silverlight pages time out and redirect the browser (viewer) to a different page to avoid bandwidth wasting (*)

Look at the wwwroot\javascript\index.html page for example:
<!-- redirect away after 5 minutes -->
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300;url=/" >

The 2nd line tells the browser to load the main page after 300 seconds.
You can change/remove that line.

Note:
Before you edit the html pages that came with AbelCam you should execute the following steps first:
- copy the entire wwwroot folder to a different location
- change the Data Dir setting in AbelCam to point to the new location

When you install a new AbelCam version your changes will survive in the new location.
If you just edit files in the default wwwroot folder location your changes will be replaced by the new release.

(*) The java streaming duration is controlled by the Max Motion JPEG frames setting, that page won't redirect the browser to a different location.
By: ScottL
Rank: Frequent User
Topics: 25
From: n/a
Added: 06/17/2011 - 04:44 PM

Got it.

Thanks.