Axis Communications 243Q Blade General performance considerations, Optimizing your system

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General performance considerations

When setting up your system, it is important to consider how various settings and situations will affect performance. Some factors affect the amount of bandwidth (the bit rate) required, others can affect the frame rate, and some will affect both. If the load on the CPU reaches its maximum, this will also affect the frame rate.

The following factors are among the most important to consider:

High image resolutions and/or lower compression levels result in larger images. Bandwidth affected.

Access by large numbers of Motion JPEG and/or unicast MPEG-4 clients. Band- width affected.

Simultaneous viewing of different streams (resolution, compression, etc.) by dif- ferent clients. Frame rate and bandwidth affected.

Accessing both Motion JPEG and MPEG-4 video streams simultaneously. Frame rate and bandwidth affected.

Heavy usage of event settings affects the CPU load. Frame rate affected.

Enabled motion detection. Frame rate and bandwidth affected.

Heavy network utilization due to poor infrastructure. Bandwidth affected.

Viewing on poorly performing client PC lowers perceived performance. Frame rate affected.

Optimizing your system

To see the bandwidth and frame rate currently required by the video stream, the AXIS 243Q Blade provides a tool that can be used to display these values directly in the video image.

To do this, special format strings are added as part of a text overlay. Simply add #r (average frame rate in fps) and/or #b (average bandwidth in Kbps) to the overlay.

For detailed instructions, please see the online help for Video & Image > Overlay Settings, and the help for File Naming & Date/Time Formats.

Important!

•The figures displayed here are the values as delivered by the server. If other restrictions are currently in force, (e.g. bandwidth limitation) these values might not correspond to those actually received by the client.

•For Motion JPEG, these values will only be accurate as long as no frame rate limit has been specified.

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Contents Axis 243Q Blade Video Server User’s Manual About This Document Page Contents Axis 243Q Blade Product description OverviewLED indicators Switches & connectorsAxis 243Q Blade Product description Accessing the video server Access from a browserSetting the root password Live ViewLayout Axis 243Q Blade Accessing the video server Video streams Video stream typesMotion Jpeg How to stream MPEG-4 MPEG-4 protocols and communication methodsOther methods of accessing the video stream Axis Media Control AMCRTP/RTSP/HTTP or RTP/RTSP/HTTPS Other MPEG-4 clients Configuring the video server Accessing the Setup linkImage settings Video & ImageImage appearance Text overlay settings Video streamTest Video source settings Advanced MPEG-4 settingsBit Rate control Advanced Mjpeg settings Overlay/Mask SettingsOverlay/Mask Overlay image requirements Overlay image limitationsImage Formats Image Size Live View Config Default Video FormatDefault Viewer Viewer SettingsAction Buttons User-defined LinksCheck Show custom link Output ButtonsInstalling PTZ devices Authentication keyPan Tilt Zoom PTZ configuration Preset positionsPTZ controls Using CGI links to control PTZ devices PTZ control modesControl panel Guard tour AdvancedPTZ control queue Using PTZ on video inputs Event configuration Event serversEvent types How to set up a triggered event Triggered EventClick Add triggered... on the Event Types Enter the minimum time interval between triggersHow to set up a scheduled event Scheduled eventClick Add scheduled... on the Event Types Camera tampering How to configure Motion Detection Click Motion Detection in the Event Config menuMotion detection Port status Object SizeSystem options SecurityUsers IP Address FilterHttps IeeeAuthentication process RadiusDate & time Axis 243Q Blade System options CA serversBasic TCP/IP settings IPv4 and IPv6 Address ConfigurationServices NetworkDNS configuration Host Name ConfigurationLink-Local IPv4 address NAT traversal port mapping for IPv4Network traffic QoS Quality of service QoS SettingsSmtp email UPnP BonjourPorts & devices Maintenance SupportSupport Overview System OverviewAccess Log The Access Log may be used for various purposes AboutResetting to the factory default settings Terminal connector Pin Function DescriptionRS-485-A Non-invertingSchematic diagram I/O terminal connector Axis 243Q Blade10o 11oRS-485 COM port Troubleshooting Checking the firmwareUpgrading the firmware Emergency recovery procedure Axis 243Q Blade cannot be accessed from a web browser Alarms, to a destination outside the local networkServer is inaccessible Video Image ProblemsSnapshot images Only I frames Technical specifications NTSC/PALMaintenance Weight General performance considerations Optimizing your systemBandwidth Glossary Axis 243Q Blade GlossaryCompression See Image compression De-interlacing See InterlacingEncoder See Video encoder Fixed iris See AutoirisAn IP address consists of four groups or quads Megapixel See Pixel Axis 243Q Blade Glossary SSL/TSL An I-VOP is a complete image frame Factory default settings 49 firmware Live view configIndex Generic Http Generic TCP/IPLive View Video source Video streams 12, 14, 18 Viewer settings