Specifications

For optimal efficiency, you should select the Windows Media Video 8 and Audio 9 codecs. If

you or others will be viewing over very slow connections, you'll want to keep the total

"bitrate" under 40 kbps. That is, you if select 8 kbps for audio, you should enter 32 for

video. When using broadband (DSL and cable modems), you might want to experiment with

bitrates in the neighborhood of 1000 (1Mbps) instead.

Advanced users may experiment with altering keyframe, quality, and buffer window

settings. A "key frame" is a complete image, and requires more bandwidth to

transmit. However, when they are spaced closer, it may require less time to buffer and

synchronize with the stream.

Instead of using the Blue Iris web server and web pages, you may instead view a Windows

Media broadcast by opening your Windows Media Player, and selecting "open URL" from the

File menu. Enter "http://yourdomain:8880" where 8880 is the port number. "Yourdomain"

may be your computer's name in a LAN, or an Internet address or IP address if you accessing

your computer from anywhere else in the world. If you have a router and/or firewall, this port

number must be specifically routed to the machine running Blue Iris.