How do we export metadata devices for playback? We are investigating using multi-channel metadata providers and how it works with the location viewer sample. We have been able to implement these features but wondering how the Smart Client handles the exporting of the metadata. Can you tell us if this is possible and how we accomplish this?
It is automatic!
If you have a camera which have related metadata, - set this up in Management Client, in camera properties in the Client tab, - then the metadata is automatically exported when you export the video from the camera in Milestone format.
There is two issues that makes this impossible to explore by use of the Smart Client Location View sample.
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The sample does not work in playback mode, this makes the sample incapable of showing anything while in playback mode, and without playback mode there is no sense in working with exported data.
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The sample plugin does not support “itself”. To make plugins that are exported see this KB (https://force.milestonesys.com/support/MccRedir?art=000002213&lang=en_US) .
If you export a camera which has metadata you can open the exported metadata using the Metadata Playback Viewer sample. Maybe this is a good first experiment to see how it works..