
Preferences
MPEG-4 
Due to the lower bandwidth nature of 
Buffer Size  | Sets the buffer size which provides a more smooth viewing experience  | 
  | if there is packet loss. Default (and minimum setting) is 200  | 
  | milliseconds for UDP Playback (typical on a Local Area Network) and  | 
  | 2000 milliseconds (2 seconds) for TCP Playback (typical on the  | 
  | Internet).  | 
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There are several settings that can improve the video quality of  | |
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  | decoded. However, this increases CPU utilization substantially.  | 
  | Deringing and Deblocking are resource intensive and are not  | 
  | recommended unless the PC has a 2.0 GHz, or higher, processor. On  | 
  | lower end machines, enabling Deringing and Deblocking may degrade  | 
  | video quality.  | 
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Enable Deringing  | Corrects for certain motion artifacts.  | 
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Deblocking  | Smooths the video frame by smoothing artifacts inherent to the digital  | 
  | compression process.  | 
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 | StreamPlayer Plus can receive   | 
Streams  | order of efficiency – UDP, RTSP Interleaving, or HTTP tunneling.  | 
  | When Automatic is chosen StreamPlayer Plus will try different  | 
  | protocols to establish the best connection. In some cases, for example,  | 
  | if you know you cannot receive UDP streams because of firewall  | 
  | issues, you may want to define the method StreamPlayer tries to  | 
  | connect because the automatic method can cause up to several  | 
  | seconds of delay. The port can also be modified, but this is not  | 
  | recommended, unless you know that the port on the VBrick or Video  | 
  | on Demand server that is sending the video has also been changed.  | 
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