Recording Player

You can use the Recording Player to watch recordings. A variety of different playback features help you easily perform surveillance tasks.

Before you start:

  • Refer to this article to select a suitable client to view recordings.
  • Refer to this article to see the limitations of Surveillance Station web player.

To play recordings:

  • Select a recording and click Play. (Press and hold the Ctrl and Shift keys for multiple selection.)
  • Right-click on a recording and click Play. (Press and hold the Ctrl and Shift keys for multiple selection.)
  • Double-click on a recording.

To operate Recording Player:

After you open a recording, you can do the following:

  • Click to play or to pause the playback.
  • While playing, click or to play backward or forward.
  • While playing, click or to rewind 10 seconds or fast forward 10 seconds.
  • While playing, click or to jump to the previous or next event.
  • While paused, click or to jump to the previous or next second.
  • Click or to slow down or speed up.
  • Click to view the playlists. Recordings will be played according to the order in the playlist.
    • Video: The playlist is generated automatically and cannot be modified.
    • Bookmarks: Includes all the bookmarks you added. You can play, edit, or delete bookmarks.
  • Click or to increase or decrease the time span of the timeline.

When hovering your mouse over the player window, you can do the following:

  • Hover over Volume and use the bar to adjust the volume. You can also click on the appearing icon to mute or un-mute the audio.
  • Click Snapshot to take a snapshot of the recording.
  • Click Drag and zoom , then click-and-drag to digitally zoom in on the selected area. You can scroll the mouse wheel to further zoom in or out.

You can also click to do the following:

  • Click Edit camera to open the camera edit window and adjust settings.
  • Click Enhance image quality to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness.
  • Click Fixed aspect ratio to turn on or off fixed aspect ratio.
  • Click Show camera info to show or hide the camera information window.
  • Click Bookmark to bookmark the recording.
  • Click Download to download the recording.
  • Click Show/Hide privacy masking to view or hide the privacy masking zones.
  • Click Change recording mode to switch between Dual Recording mode and normal recording mode.