When successfully installed, the ibaCapture-ScreenCam symbol appears in the Windows taskbar indicating the following states:
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Green symbol: ibaCapture-ScreenCam is recording |
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Red symbol: error state or stopped |
Open ibaCapture-ScreenCam with a double-click on the icon 
in the Windows taskbar.
General tab
The General tab is divided in 2 sections. In the Status section, you find information about the status of the ibaCapture-ScreenCam program indicated by different colors:
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Stopped (red)
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Waiting (orange)
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Recording (green)
With the <Start> and <Stop> button, you can start and stop the program. The port number should be only changed for special configurations. If the option "Auto-start when Windows starts" is activated, the ibaCapture-ScreenCam program starts automatically when logging in to Windows.
In the Configuration section, you can disable Windows aero theme in order to save computing capacity.
In the table, you can add (
) or remove (
) HMI cameras. A camera is required for every screen or region on the screen which
shall be captured. The HMI camera settings, like screen or region selection, can be
configured in ibaCapture Manager.
When you add a camera, you can specify a camera name. The port number is entered automatically.
Apply the settings (
) and configure capture window and frame rate in ibaCapture Manager, see chapter Configuration in ibaCapture Manager. When configuration was done in ibaCapture Manager, additional information is displayed in the table.
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Status can be recording, available or not applied
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Connected server (host name)
Capture Window
The width and height of the captured region is given in pixels. The offset (X/Y) of the top left corner of the region rectangle refers to the top left edge of the monitor.
Frame rate (fps)
The Configured column displays the frame rate as configured in ibaCapture Manager.
Load (%)
The load of the encoder is given in %. If the load increases nearly to 100%, it is recommended to decrease the resolution (video quality) and/or frame rate for this HMI camera in ibaCapture Manager. A value of 100% means that the application needs all the time between two images to capture, encode and send each image.
Event log tab
On the Event log tab, events, especially error and warning messages are displayed.
Security tab
Access to screens can be protected with a password. Click on <Change password> to activate the password protection. In ibaCapture-ScreenCam only the account with the user "admin" is supported.
Once a password has been set, the Enabled checkbox will be checked. Then screen recording from this system only works after entering the correct password. The ibaCapture-ScreenCam instance can also only be exited by entering the correct password.
To protect the local configuration, the mode can be switched between “Configurable” and “Readonly”. If you switch from "Readonly" to "Configurable", the password must be entered.