IP Camera

[scrimshanker]

Hi all,

 

just thinking what constant bit rate you all use all use as a standard for your ip camera installs

 

i guess some of you use a variable bit rate, but with that how do you work out your storage needs?

 

[petrolhead]

A piece of String can be any length you want.

[scrimshanker]

How insightful!

 

but what is the best length of string for perfect images while conserving storage?

[petrolhead]

Its different for every camera, every scene, every budget.

[scrimshanker]

Is it?

 

surely you have a default standard, a basic setting you know the image will be satisfactory?

[al-yeti]

Depends if budget is low then not much rate eh?

 

 

[petrolhead]

If budget is lower but the customer still has a target for image retention duration, i would offer the option of switching on h264+ and dropping the bit rate, but the drop in image quality is noticable, i try to steer them to spending that bit extra on the additional storage and often succeed but some are already stretching their budget. Thats one consideration, another is available upload bandwidth if the customer want's to remote view the main stream.

Edited March 19, 2017 by petrolhead

[petrolhead]

2 hours ago, scrimshanker said:

Is it?

 

surely you have a default standard, a basic setting you know the image will be satisfactory?

What resolution? What encoding?

[scrimshanker]

1080p h.264

25fps

[PeterJames]

how many cameras do you want to record, and how long for?