Specifications

Media

•

Must enable Windows Media in the camera's webcasting setup page

• Efficient stream, but high CPU utilization

• Uses an embedded Windows Media Player ActiveX object remotely, so

again Internet Explorer is required

• Ability to "push" to a Windows Media Server for mass distribution

Flash Media

Live

• Full license version only

• Easily distribute to a large audience with a service such as UStream

Configuring JPEG and ActiveX Streams

JPEG webcasting and ActiveX webcasting are enabled together. The default Blue Iris home

page uses H.264 webcasting via an ActiveX component (you must answer "Yes" to install it

when you view the page remotely for the first time, and whenever the ActiveX component

version number changes).

When webcasting JPEG images, you may choose to scale them (make them smaller) and use a

specific quality value. By default, JPEG images are broadcast in the same size they are

captured according to the camera's video properties

(See 7.1). As you decrease image size and

lower image quality, the number of bytes needed for each image decrease as well. This

directly translates into smoother video (more frames per second), especially over slower

connections, or when bandwidth must be shared with multiple clients.

Advanced users may configure the H.264 stream via the Web Server (See 8.) options page.

Windows Media® Technologies

The Windows Media webcasting format intelligently compresses your camera's video stream

(and optionally the audio stream as well). The goal is simply to produce the highest quality

audio/video experience using the least amount of bandwidth. The advantages are fluid video

with audio for multiple viewers. The one clear disadvantage to this technology is that the

viewer (Windows Media Player® or a browser plug-in) "buffers" several seconds of the stream

before displaying the image, so the image is "delayed" by this amount of time. Another is

intensive CPU utilization to accomplish the encoding.

You should click the "Profile configuration" button to configure the Windows Media encoding

and broadcasting engine.