21AXIS 210A/211A - Video & Image settingsText Overlay SettingsInclude date, time and/or text of your choice to be viewed on the image. The color of thetext may be set to white or black, while background color may be set to white, black,transparent or semitransparent. The position of the text is set either to the top or thebottom of the image. Click for more information.Video StreamDefine the maximum video stream time per session in seconds, minutes or hours. Whenthe set time has expired, a new stream can be started by refreshing the page in the Webbrowser. For unlimited video stream time, set this value to 0. This setting is only applicableto Motion JPEG.The frame rate allowed to each viewer can also be limited, to avoid bandwidth problemson the network.TestTo preview the image before saving, click Test. Note that the preview image is in JPEGformat, even though the settings are valid both for Motion JPEG and MPEG-4.Overlay/Mask SettingsOverlay/Mask TypeWhen using an image overlay,select from the followingoptions:• Uploaded image as overlay -usually used to provide extrainformation in the videoimage.• Configurable areas as privacymasks - up to three areas areused to conceal parts of thevideo image.The difference between an overlay and a privacy mask is that a privacy mask cannot bebypassed by accessing the video stream with the help of the AXIS HTTP API, whereas anoverlay can.Selecting the overlay/mask type displays further settings available for the selected type.See the online help for further information.Overlay imageText, date andtime overlays