User manual
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MxEasy's Bandwidth Management feature oers you an eective tool for optimizing the
retrieval and display of live images from cameras in MxEasy.
Ideally, an Ethernet network will always have enough network bandwidth to transfer all
data at "full network speed" so that the live images of all cameras connected to MxEasy
can be shown in all display windows at full resolution and full frame rate. And this is also
the case for a wired Ethernet network. If the cameras (or the computer running MxEasy)
are connected to the network via a wi-fi or ISDN connection or a modem, there will
generally not be enough bandwidth to display the video sequences smoothly in MxEasy.
With MxEasy's Bandwidth Management, you can now set up the cameras to only retrieve
the live images you need at the resolution and frame rate that MxEasy requires to properly
display them at any given time. This means you can have the live image from the camera
in the main window displayed at full resolution and full frame rate while the live images
in the smaller camera windows are shown at a lower resolution and reduced frame rate.
This is possible given that MOBOTIX cameras display both high-resolution video sequences
and lower resolution images ("preview" images) at the same time. MxEasy is then able to
retrieve those preview images (for more information, see Section 11.2
Accessing the Live
Image and the Event Images
of the
software manual
).
If one of the cameras from a small camera window is displayed in the main window (for
example, due to an alarm or manually set by the user), MxEasy will show the already
available preview images immediately and in real-time in the main window and then
start to retrieve the images from the respective camera at full resolution from that point
on. The live image in the main window will therefore appear for only brief moment at a
lower resolution until the newly requested high-resolution image becomes available.
You can apply one of the following strategies for bandwidth management in MxEasy
depending on how much network bandwidth is available (or on the network connection
type for the MOBOTIX cameras). (
menu command; see also
Section 3.7.2, Connections
.)