Video sources administration short help page

Here you can set up streams to be used by your pipelines.

At the top is the header, where you can save your configuration or refresh it from the device, losing any unsaved changes.

Configured streams are displayed in the center. Disabled streams have yellow bottoms. Streams with recording turned on have red "rec" on their icon. You can add a new input by clicking the button on the top right.

On the right side you have tabs, containing selected stream's settings, test and help. Settings are described bellow.

Enabled - whether the stream is enabled
Input stream name - Your name for the stream. Used in notifications and GUI.
Input stream type - what kind of input this is

Input stream types

Black test signal - black screen, only for testing
USB cam on device - standard webcam, to get the input you need to fill device name
URI - Universal Resource Identifier, basically a link to a video file
MultiURI - Same as URI, but you can input multiple, separated by commas
Folder on device - You can use multiple videos as input, just link the folder here

RTSP - Standard output of an IP camera. You can input High quality stream, low quality stream and even thermal imaging stream, provided your camera has it. You can get the stream URLs with the Help me button. Smart recording feature is pre-recording required for sending short video notifications from Alerting subsystem. Next you can enable recording, set the length of recorded videos and choose recorded substream. You can configure drop frame interval, used to reduce input framerate, not applied to recording. Example: 5 would mean that only every fifth frame is received during analysis in pipeline.