Axis Communications Axis 211A - Manual (Page 24)

24 AXIS 210A/211A - Video & Image settings
MPEG-4 Settings
Tools for adjusting the MPEG-4 settings and for controlling the video bit rate.
The MPEG-4 standard provides many different tools for various applications in different
situations. As most MPEG-4 clients do not support all of these tools, it is usual to instead
define and use subsets for different clients or groups of clients. These settings allow you to
define the type of viewing client to use.
Adjusting the maximum bit rate and setting it to a variable or constant is a good way of
controlling the bandwidth used by the MPEG-4 video stream. For more information on
these advanced settings, please see Video Streams, on page 14, and the online help .
MJPEG
Sometimes the image size is large due to low light or complex scenery. Adjusting the
maximum frame size helps to control the bandwidth and storage used by the MJPEG video
stream in these situations. Defining the frame size as Unlimited provides consistently good
image quality at the expense of increased bandwidth and storage usage during low light.
Limiting the frame size optimizes bandwidth and storage usage, but gives poor image
quality. To prevent increased bandwidth and storage usage, the maximum frame size
should be set to an optimal value.
AXIS Media Control
The AXIS Media Control (AMC) is installed automatically the first time the camera is
accessed from a browser. The AMC control panel can be opened by right-clicking on the
video image in the Live View web page. The AMC control panel can be used to configure
various network, video and audio settings such as: