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Chapter 3 Using the Ease Menu and Niagara SCX Web Interface
Niagara SCX Web Interface
The Advanced MPEG Video Settings provide you with the ability to choose the MPEG Type required
for your output. As set forth in descriptions of the MPEG Types, these include the following:
• H.264–MP4: H.264, MPEG-4, Part 10, or AVC (Advanced Video Coding) was designed for very
high-data compression while maintain better quality than its predecessor, H.263. It was also created
to address a broad range of applications from low bit rate to h igh bit rate and from low resolution
such as cell phones to high resolution such as broadcast. The encoder’s H.264 is Baseline Profile.
• H.264–3G2: This setting will create an H.264 stream stored in a 3G2 container.
• H.264–3GP: This setting will create an H.264 stream stored in a 3GPP container.
• MPEG4–MP4: MPEG-4, Part 2, or H.263, is designed for situations where low bit rate and low
resolution are mandated by other conditions of the applicatio ns, like network bandwidth or device
size. Examples of video applications for H.263 are c ell phones, some low end video conferencing
systems, and surveillance systems. H.263 is important for legacy handheld devices that do not
support H.264.
Note By default, the encoder’s H.263 uses Simple Profile unless you select the Enable B Frames
option. If B frames are enabled, then the resulting stream will be Advanced Simple Profile.