Recording Player
You can use Recording Player to watch recordings. A variety of different playback features help you easily perform surveillance tasks.
To play recordings using Recording Player, do either of the following:
- Select the recorded clip(s) you want to play from the list, and click Play. (Press and hold the "Shift" or "Ctrl" key for multiple selections.)
- Right-click one or multiple recorded clip(s), and click Play. (Press and hold the "Shift" or "Ctrl" key for multiple selections.)
- Double-click a recorded clip to open Recording Player.
To use Recording Player:
- Once you open a recording, you can do any of the following in Recording Player:
- Click
to play the video. Click
to pause or
to stop playback.
- Click
or
to go to the previous or next recording.
- While playing, click
or
to slow down or speed up the video.
- While paused, click
or
to skip to the previous or next frame.
- Click
to view the playlist. Recordings will be played according to the order in the playlist.
- Auto playlist:All recordings are automatically included in the playlist. You cannot remove any recording from the playlist.
- Playlist:The playlist can be modified. You can add a recording to the playlist by dragging and dropping a recording to the player.
- Click
to repeat recordings. Click this button again to switch between repeat one or all recording(s) in the playlist.
- The following on-screen buttons are also available on the bottom of the video when you mouse over the Recording Player window:
- Click Snapshot
to take a snapshot of the video.
- Click Drag and zoom
, and then click and drag with the mouse to digitally zoom in on the selected area. Scroll the mouse wheel to further zoom in/out as necessary. Click Reset digital zoom
at the upper-left corner to return to the default zoom level.
- Click Download
to open the download page for the current recording. The video clip will be saved in .avi or .mp4 format.
- Download complete file: Download the complete recording.
- Download a video clip: Specify the time interval of the recording clip you wish to download.
Note: If the length of original recording file is shorter than 10 seconds, you can only download the complete file.
- Mouse over Volume
to adjust the volume with the volume bar (for cameras with audio support). You can also click on this button to mute/unmute the audio.
- Click Time slicing
to slice the video into four segments. This function is only available when the video length is longer than one minute. When you mouse over the bottom of each window, you can take snapshots or click the Time slicing
button again to leave the mode.
- Click Duration / Timestamp
to switch the display between video duration and recorded time.
- Click Fixed aspect ratio
to preserve the video's original aspect ratio.
- Click Image Enhancement
to adjust or enhance the image display of recordings. Drag the slider bars to modify corresponding values:
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Saturation
- Sharpness
Note:
- Before watching recordings with Mac Safari 5.1 or onward, make sure your browser settings are appropriate. Refer to here for more information.
- Surveillance Station may not be properly run in Internet Explorer if any one of the files in the installation directory is missing, modified, or crashed. To solve this problem, click the gear icon at the top-right corner of the IE browser, and then go to Manage Add-ons > Toolbars and Extensions. Scroll down the add-ons list to select "SSObject2 Control" under Synology Inc., click Disable (or right-click to choose Disable) to disable the ActiveX add-on, and log in to Surveillance Station again.