Cisco Systems 2200 manual AVI Encoder Settings, Flash Encoder Settings, Motion Threshold

Chapter 2 Getting to Know the Cisco Digital Media Encoder 2200

Encoder Preset (A, B, and C)

Motion Threshold

Motion Threshold adjusts the threshold of difference from spatially- and temporally-related pixels, which are judged to be “motion.” If you enter a higher value, the number of pixels in motion will be greatly reduced. If you enter a lower value, the number of motion pixels greatly increases until the entire screen, more or less, is considered in motion. The recommended default is 16.

Sharp and Smooth Motion

When the Sharp Motion radio button is selected, detail in motion areas will be sharper, but at the expense of somewhat jagged diagonal edges.

When the Smooth Motion radio button is selected, more loss of detail will occur in motion areas, but edges will be smoother.

Since the eye does not clearly see detail in areas of motion—and edge artifacts are highly intrusive—the Smooth algorithm is preferred for most applications. The Smooth algorithm uses a bit more CPU.

Both algorithms treat still areas in the same fashion, and there should be no loss of detail in still areas.

AVI Encoder Settings

AVI is an uncompressed audio and video storage format and, therefore, only has the ability to save to a file. You can type in a unique name for the generated AVI file and modify the directory path to the location the file will be stored. Clicking the Default Folder link will insert the path of the default folder for file storage on the encoder. By default the path is d:\AVFILES\.

Note It is not recommend that you store files in any other directory on the encoder.

Once you have saved your file to the encoder internal hard drive, we recommend that you move the drive to another external storage device such as a USB drive or a network drive for backup purposes.

After you have input your settings, click the Submit button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

Warning If you click away from the current page to another web page without clicking Submit, your changes will be lost.

Flash Encoder Settings

The Flash Encoder Settings are similar to the AVI settings for saving the audio and video to a file. However, Flash adds some additional frame and bit rate controls. The frame rate changes the frames per second at which the video will be encoded. The audio format setting can be used to modify the audio frequency and changes stereo to mono. The bit rate settings pertain to the amount of data per second the audio and video are captured. Decreasing the bit rate for both or either will decrease the playback viewing quality.

The Flash encoder creates a Flash format audio and video file. You can type in a unique name for the Flash file (.flv).

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