After searching the video footage, the playback starts. You can control the video playback via timeline. The timeline indicates the time duration for the video footage.

1. Click Monitoring > Playback on home page to open the Playback page.
2. Search the video file of cameras for playback. For details, refer to Search Video File.

   The playback starts.

3. Click the icons on the toolbar to control the playback.
4. Click on the timeline or drag the timeline to play back the video of the specific time.
5. Optional: Click or or use the mouse wheel to scale up or scale down the timeline bar.
6. Optional: Move the cursor to the display window in playback to access further functions, including capture, clipping, and other functions.

   Option	Description
   Open Digital Zoom	Click to enable the digital zoom function and draw a rectangle on the video. Click again to disable the function. Note: When in software decoding mode, you can also capture the zoomed in picture after enabling digital zoom function.
   Camera Status	Click to show the camera's recording status, signal status, connection number, etc.
   Stream Switch	Click , , or (if supported) to switch the live view stream to main stream, sub-stream, or smooth stream (if supported). Note: The smooth stream will show if the device supports smoothing function. You can switch to smooth stream if in low bandwidth situation to make live view more fluent.
   Audio Control	Click or to turn off/on the sound. Note: You can adjust the volume when moving the cursor on .