Optimizing your computer’s performance

There are a few elements that only the individual users of XProtect Smart Client can configure on their own computers with XProtect Smart Client.

Keyboard shortcut keys

In XProtect Smart Client, you can define several keyboard shortcut keys that can help you complete tasks faster. Here are a few examples:

  • Open a new tab

  • Take a snapshot

  • Lift/reapply privacy masks

  • Close all detached windows

  • Activate outputs

  • Zoom in/out

  • Go to a specific preset position

  • Activate the different controls in the main timeline

  • Select a specific view.

Adaptive streaming and playback

If you enable the Adaptive streaming setting, you can reduce the network load when sending video streams across your network.

To check the status of the Adaptive streaming on your computer:

Open the Settings and more menu, select Settings, and then the Advanced tab to check if the Adaptive streaming setting is enabled on your computer. If not, enable it.

To use adaptive streaming in live video, your system administrator must have configured cameras to send at least two live video streams in different resolutions to the XProtect VMS system. To use adaptive playback, at least two video streams in different resolutions are recorded. Also, your XProtect Smart Client supervisors have defined views using multiple streams.

Hardware acceleration

If you enable the Hardware acceleration setting, you can improve your computer’s decoding capability and performance.

To check the setting for Hardware acceleration in your XProtect Smart Client:

Open the Settings and more menu, select Settings, and then the Advanced tab, to check if hardware acceleration is enabled on your computer. If not, enable it.

Hardware acceleration uses GPU resources. If your computer doesn’t have GPU resources, you can’t use hardware acceleration.

You can’t use all GPU resources for hardware acceleration. If in doubt, ask your supervisor or system administrator.