IP Products Update
By: John Honovich, Published on Jun 14, 2009Traditional video surveillance manufacturer has released documentation on their own line of IP Fixed Cameras (min-dome and box) and IP encoders (4 and 8 channel options). Both only support MPEG-4 compression.
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