
AXIS 250S User’s Manual
Bandwidth
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Appendix G - Bandwidth
As different networks have different characteristics and different amounts of bandwidth
available, the AXIS 250S’s video and audio settings may need to be adjusted to suit the
prevailing conditions.
The Video Quality Level
The video quality level describes how much video data is transferred per second, and can be
set in the range 1-7 (lowest to highest). Whether or not you should use the highest available
level depends on the answers to a few questions:
Does your application need a video stream at the highest quality? Try viewing the live
video stream and uploading MPEG-2 files using several different quality levels.
Are there other bandwidth-dependent services running on the same network? Will the
quality level used by the AXIS 250S cause problems for these services?
How many clients are likely to be viewing the video stream at any one time? The maximum
number of simultaneous (unicast) viewing clients on a local area network is 3.
Image Quality vs Quality Level
The quality of the video stream in relation to the set quality level can be roughly illustrated
by the graph below.