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acableconnection - 02 Jan 2007, 03:49 pm
How much bandwidth will my customer need to have live video on his website? 1 camera, 480 tvl. He is a new athletic performance trainer, so, his website wont get much traffic.
Thomas - 02 Jan 2007, 05:32 pm
Live as in what is happening now, or live as in 30 fps?
acableconnection - 02 Jan 2007, 05:44 pm
as in what is happening now. He wants the parents/interested customers to be able to see their kid working out.
Mobiquitus - 28 Mar 2007, 09:21 am
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as in what is happening now. He wants the parents/interested customers to be able to see their kid working out.


You are then talking about live streaming video which you can do cheaply with a webcam rather then with a CCTV system. Anyway ..... it all depends on size of the video and frame per seconds (fps). You can successfully see "what's going on" already at 16 Kbps and 8 fps but for more decent quality I would suggest at least a 100 Kbps at 320x240 using some mpg4 based codec as RealVideo. If you want to get higher resolution keep in mind that an IPcam at highest resolution and 25/30fps will eat about 1 Mbps to provide a good quality.
Are you using a DVR/NVR system ? Are the cameras analogue or IP ?
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