Surveillance CODEC Guide
CODECs are core to surveillance, with names like MJPEG, MPEG-4 and H.264 commonly discussed but, How do they work? Why should you use them? What issues may you face? In this tutorial, we examine this in-depth covering:
- Uncompressed vs Compressed Video
- Inter vs Intra Frame Compression
- Standard CODECs Compared - MJPEG, MPEG-4, H.264
- "Scala...
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