You can minimize the time it takes for a camera to open and display live video in the Security Desk Monitoring task by adjusting settings in Config Tool and Security Desk.
What you should know
- Video compression format: MJPEG video streams usually display quicker than H.264 video streams.
- Image quality: a camera usually displays live video quicker with video image quality of 70% than with video image quality of 100% or below 60%.
- Key frame interval: setting a low Key frame interval for the camera in Config Tool might produce better results.
Procedure
- From the Config Tool home page, open the Video task.
- Select the camera to configure and click the Video tab.
- In the Stream usage section, turn on Live and Recording for the selected stream.
- In the Network settings section, select Multicast as the Connection type.
- Click Apply.
- Click the Recording tab and select Continuous from the Recording modes drop-down list.
- Click Apply.
- From the Security Desk home page, click .
- Scroll down to the Video cache section and turn off Live video caching.
- Under Advanced settings, set the Jitter buffer delay to 0 ms.
- Restart Security Desk.