Multi-streaming (explained)

Playback of recorded video and viewing live video do not necessarily require the same video quality and frame rate to achieve the best result. You can have either one stream for live viewing and another stream for playback purposes or multiple separate live streams with different resolution, encoding, and frame rate.

Example 1, live and recorded video:

For viewing live video, your organization may prefer H.264 at a high frame rate.
For playing back recorded video, your organization may prefer MJPEG at a lower frame rate because this preserves disk space.

Example 2, multiple live videos:

For viewing live video from a local operating point, your organization may prefer H.264 at a high frame rate to have the highest quality of video available.
For viewing live video from a remotely connected operating point, your organization may prefer MJPEG at a lower frame rate and quality in order to preserve network bandwidth.
If you enable Live multicast on the camera's Client tab, it only works on the default video stream.

Even when cameras support multi-streaming, individual multi-streaming capabilities may vary between different cameras. See the camera's documentation for more information.

To see if a camera offers different types of streams, see the Settings tab.