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■ Intra frame period
Determine how often for rmware to plant an I frame. The shorter the duration, the more likely
you will get better video quality, but at the cost of higher network bandwidth consumption. Select
the intra frame period from the following durations: 1/4 second, 1/2 second, 1 second, 2 seconds,
3 seconds, and 4 seconds.
►Dynamic Intra frame period
High quality motion codecs, such as H.265, utilize the redundancies between video frames to
deliver video streams at a balance of quality and bit rate.
The encoding parameters are summarized and illustrated below. The
I-frames
are completely
self-referential and they are largest in size. The
P-frames
are predicted frames. The encoder
refers to the previous I- or P-frames for redundant image information.
P I P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P I
P I P P P P P P P I P P P P P P P I
Static scene
Activities
P P P
P I P P P P P P P I P P P P P P P I
By dynamically prolonging the intervals for I-frames insertion to up to 10 seconds, the bit rates
required for streaming a video can be tremendously reduced. When streaming a video of a
static scene, the Dynamic Intra frame feature can save up to 53% of bandwidth. The amount of
bandwidth thus saved is also determined by the activities in the eld of view. If activities occur
in the scene, rmware automatically shortens the I-frame insertion intervals in order to maintain
image quality. In the low light or night conditions, the sizes of P-frames tend to be enlarged due
to the noises, and hence the bandwidth saving e󰀨ect is also reduced.
Streaming a typical 2MP scene normally requires 3~4Mb/s of bandwidth. With the Dynamic Intra
frame function, the bandwidth for streaming a medium-tra󰀩c scene can be reduced to 2~3Mb/s,
and during the no-tra󰀩c period of time, down to 500kb/s.
H.264/265 Frame Types
Dynamic Intra Frame w/
static scenes
Dynamic Intra Frame w/
activities in scenes
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