Description
The following is a list of differences that will be found when comparing the exacqVision Client running on an M-Series server and that of the client running on any other machine.
Product
- Embedded exacqVision Client
- exacqVision M-Series
Solution
Important: These differences only apply to the exacqVision Client running on the M-Series itself! If you are using a client on a different machine these restrictions will not be there. Case in point. Locally on the M Series you cannot view 5mp cameras due to a decoding limit on the hardware. However, they record fine, and can be viewed on remote clients.
Embedded Client GUI
Description
- The embedded client is the full edvrclient GUI with some small modifications
Client Differences
- New features
- Resolution configuration
- Logout button
- Removed pages
- Systems
- Add systems (Will only connect to local server)
- All enterprise pages
- Joystick Configuration
- Burn Disc button and dialog
- Removed features
- ePlayer
- exacqReplay (video out is unable to support overlapping video)
- Print Image
- Copy Image to Clipboard
- Client side dewarping
- Limitations
- No opacity support over video. We do some rounding to 0%, 50%, and 100%, where 50% draws with a crash hatch pattern
- Decoder limitations. You may get “Unable to decode” if we run out of decoder resources.
- NOTE: Resolutions must be less than 1936×1936 (Decoder imposed limitation, originally chosen for pre-allocating all decoder buffers)Failed to allocate resources for the decoder (out of resources before attempting to decode).Failed to decode the first 20 frames of a stream without. This could mean we’re out of resources or the decoder may not be able to decode the stream, but we don’t know which. Attempted to use video out (display) but another instance already has video out locked. Only one client instance can display video at a time. Close the other client and retry.
- Differences
- Limited to 9 panel layouts and below
- PDF help instead of CHM help
- Live defaults to 2×2 with no cameras on startup
- Default timeout is enabled at 1 minute
- Audio and client disk space indicators disabled by default
- Default associations opacity = 0 (vs 50)
- All trees no longer have a system level
- System selection is hidden on all pages that have it
- The config tree item that used to say the system name now says “System Information”
- No GPU decoding support
Admin mode vs User mode
- NOTE: These differences are not specific to dynacolor. They are the same as the differences between the “User” account and “Admin” account on a regular Linux image.
- Only available in admin mode:
- As a rule of thumb anything that needs to open a browser should not work
- About -> Update
- Camera Item Config page -> IP hyperlink
- Unable to change “Show Configuration Mode to Operating System Restricted Users” setting
- Add IP Cameras -> Right click open in browser
- Connection details -> IP hyperlink
- Help Menu
- What’s new
- Knowledge base
- Support Resources
- Software subscription information
- Product registration
- PoE Management page -> Right click open in browser
- Support export -> Upload
Only saving locally supported
- System Information -> System Log export does not contain system report information, serial, model, MAC, license, etc.
- Configure System -> Release notes and software subscription info hyperlinks
- Systems Page -> Product Registration and privacy policy
- Video Panel -> Right click properties IP hyperlink
- Differences
- Save and open file dialogs use limited dialog
- This dialog is limited to just the exacqVision Files folder and USB keys