Difference between revisions of "MJPEG vs H264"
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For small systems, cameras that provide H264 stream, or an MJPEG stream will work well. If you are scaling to a large system with many cameras, you will notice that ZM uses more resources to decode H264 video (through FFMPEG or | '''NOTE:''' the following applies to ZM < 1.31 where H264 passthrough is not available. | ||
For small systems, cameras that provide H264 stream, or an MJPEG stream will work well. If you are scaling to a large system with many cameras, you will notice that ZM uses more resources to decode H264 video (through FFMPEG, VLC, or Remote) than a comparable MJPEG camera which provides a JPEG stream or image. In this case, there is a performance benefit to using MJPEG cameras. | |||
Latest revision as of 16:18, 17 July 2018
NOTE: the following applies to ZM < 1.31 where H264 passthrough is not available.
For small systems, cameras that provide H264 stream, or an MJPEG stream will work well. If you are scaling to a large system with many cameras, you will notice that ZM uses more resources to decode H264 video (through FFMPEG, VLC, or Remote) than a comparable MJPEG camera which provides a JPEG stream or image. In this case, there is a performance benefit to using MJPEG cameras.
