Old PTZ camera DS-2DF1-401H grey rectangles on the screen

[casacco]

Hi everyone,

I bought a used camera because of the PTZ and optical zoom feature. It has web interface, IP services and old PAL/NTSC output as well

After the initial setup I noticed that on fixed places of the RTSP stream thre are non transparent grey boxes. They have different size, some are overlapping each other. I checked every setting. Cleared image settings, reset, seached for privacy mask but nothing is enabled. If I rotate the camera the boxes remain on the same position, maybe the size is changing a little. Looks like a software feature not a hardware issue. Is maybe the CCD broken?

I tried changing the resolution, framerate but it had no effect.

Today I plan buying a BNC connector and connect with it to TV to see if on that output option are also hidden parts.

Did anyone had the same issue?

Thanks,
George

 

[looney2ns]

Those squares could be privacy masking that has been setup in the camera.
See if you can find where to turn that off.