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correspond fully, and this may occasionally lead to confusion. As all frames are time-stamped by your
system upon reception, and exact date and time information for each image is already known, it is
recommended that the setting is set to No.
For consistent time synchronization, you may —if supported by the camera—automatically synchronize
camera and system time through a time server.
Video
When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 65)
for specific cameras, you can use either the MJPEG video format or the MPEG video format.
Depending on which of the two options, you choose, you can set different options for your camera.
MJPEG video format
With MJPEG, you can define frame rates for regular as well as speedup modes. If the camera offers
dual stream, you can also enable this. Note that there are three places where you can set frame rate:

Live Frame Rate - used for the regular recording stream

Live Frame Rate - used when speeding up recordings in connection with motion detection or
similar functionality.

FPS (Frames per second) - used for the additional stream used for live viewing.
Regular frame rate mode
Properties available for all XProtect software versions:
Frame Rate
Required average frame rate for video from the camera. Select
number of frames, then select the time unit interval (second, minute
or hour).
Properties available in XProtect Enterprise and XProtect Professional only:
Live Frame Rate
Required average frame rate for live video from the camera. Select
number of frames, then select the time unit interval (second, minute
or hour).
If the camera supports dual stream and dual stream is enabled, the
Live Frame Rate column will be read-only with the value Dual
streaming
—which cannot be altered.
Recording Frame Rate
Required average frame rate for recorded video from the camera.
Select number of frames, then select the time unit interval (second,
minute or hour). The frame rate must be higher than the frame rate
specified under normal mode.
Speedup frame rate mode
Properties available in all XProtect software versions:
Enable speedup frame rate
The speedup feature lets you use a higher than normal frame rate if
motion is detected and/or an event occurs. When you enable
speedup, further columns for specifying speedup details become
available.