Thinking of switching to video over IP but put off by scare stories of angry IT administrators and Ethernet congestion? The solution may have arrived.H.264 (or MPEG Pt 10) is the latest official video compression standard, which follows on from the highly successful MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video standards and offers improvements in both video quality and compression. The most significant benefit for IP video systems is the ability to deliver the same high-quality, low latency, digital video with savings of between 25% and 50% on bandwidth and storage requirements. Or to put it another way, deliver significantly higher video quality for the same bandwidth.
If this blog isn’t techie enough for you, follow this link for a more detailed explanation of the new standard:
http://www.indigovision.com/learnabout-cctvh264.php
And the following link for an example of an IP camera offering H.264 compression:
http://www.networkwebcams.com/product_info.php?products_id=445
(Note: ARC is unable to comment on the distributor)
The implications (practical and legal) of specifying various video compression types for digital CCTV systems will be one of the topics address in the planned Specifying Security Technology Course, set for 2008. Details to follow soon in brochure.
