JPEG and H264

terska
terska
edited September 2014 in SecuritySpy
My Dlink 5222L's have two video profiles in the setup. One is HTTP and the other is H.264. I can't get them to appear in Security Spy unless SS is set to HTTP. I understand that H.264 is better. Any suggestions on what I am missing? My live stream is a little choppy.

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  • Ben
    Ben
    H.264 is not necessarilly "better" than JPEG; it's main advantage is that it produces a much lower-bandwidth video stream at the same visual quality. This is useful for transmisstion over slower networks (e.g. WiFi), so this will indeed help with the choppyness of your video. It also produces smaller file sizes. JPEG, on the other hand, has the advantage of requiring less CPU resources to encode and decode.

    Generally, JPEG is transmitted over HTTP whereas H.264 is transmitted over H.264. So if you want to use the camera's H.264 stream then you should set H.264 as the format of the primary stream in the camera's settings, and then select "H.264 RTSP" as the Format in the Video Device Settings window in SecuritySpy.

    Does this work for you?

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