You view video in XProtect Smart Client by selecting and switching between different views in live or playback mode.

If there are no views, you can create them. See Private and shared views.

If a camera has a microphone or separate microphones are added, you can listen to live or recorded audio. If a camera has a speaker, you can broadcast audio.

Video from cameras is not always recorded. Typically, recording is triggered by motion, schedules, or events. Data from devices and audio from microphones are usually recorded continuously.

If you see bounding boxes in the video, a device associated with the camera is sending metadata to the system.