How Does It Work?

The stream comes encoded for playing using Windows MediaPlayer for 56k modem users and has a pixel size of 640x480. This is considerably larger than normal web-cam images for 56k modems. The frame rate is one per second with a new JPEG update every 8 seconds.

The advantage of video streaming over normal motion-JPEG web images is a larger image size for lower bandwidth. When multicasting is enabled we will primarily serve these images as multicast streams.

The camera is a color low-light-level security-system quality camera; lower cost by half of a web-based camera. You will notice that the night images are still grain-free and in color!