Axis M3007-P User Manual page 18

AXIS M3007-P Network Camera
Video
Direction
In some view modes listed under Setup > Video > Video Stream, the camera can be steered to point at the desired direction by
adjusting the Pan and Tilt controls. To do this select the Direction tab from the Video Stream Settings page.
This option is only available for the following view modes:
• Panorama
• Double Panorama
• Quad View
About H.264
H.264, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10/AVC, is a video compression standard that provides high quality video streams at low bitrates.
An H.264 video stream consists of different types of frames such as I-frames and P-frames. An I-frame is a complete image, whereas
P-frames only contain the differences from previous frames.
About GOP length
A Group of Pictures (GOP) contains one I-frame followed by a number of P-frames. The GOP length is the number of frames
between two I-frames.
If you set the GOP length and the frame rate equally you will get one GOP per second. If you change the GOP length to a higher
value you will get more small sized P-frames and less big sized I-frames while keeping the same frame rate. In other words, a high
GOP-length value saves bandwidth, but the video quality may decrease. A low GOP-length value increases the video quality
but needs more bandwidth.
About H.264 profiles
The Axis product supports the following H.264 profile(s):
• Baseline: Use the Baseline profile if the client does not support CABAC entropy coding.
• Main: The Main profile uses CABAC and provides a better compression with maintained video quality. It requires a larger
amount of processing power to decode than the Baseline profile.
About bitrate control
Bitrate control is useful to make sure the video streaming does not take up too much bandwidth.
About variable bitrate
Variable bitrate (VBR) adjusts the bitrate according to the image complexity. When the activity in the scene increases, VBR adjusts
the bitrate according to the complexity, using up more bandwidth for increased activity in the scene, and less for lower scene activity.
Variable bitrate is suitable if there is a surplus in bandwidth, where the increased bitrate may not be an issue.
About maximum bitrate
If you have limited bandwidth, we recommend Maximum bit rate (MBR). MBR allows you to set a target bitrate to control the
bandwidth consumption. The target value limits the bitrate, but it maintains a flexibility to be able to prioritize a continuous video
stream. Consequently, the frame rate might need to go down and the image quality might decrease. To partly compensate for this,
you can select which variable shall be prioritized. Not setting a priority means that frame rate and image quality are equally affected.
How to set an H.264 profile
1. To change the settings for all H.264 streams that do not use a stream profile, go to Video & Audio > Video Stream > H.264.
2. To increase or decrease the number of frames per GOP, set the GOP length.
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