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AXIS 231D+/232D+ - Technical Specifications
General performance considerations
When setting up your system, it is important to consider how various settings and
situations will affect performance. Some factors affect the bandwidth (the bit rate)
required, others can affect the frame rate, and some affect both. If the load on the CPU
reaches its maximum, this also affects the frame rate.
The following factors are among the most important to consider:
• High image resolutions and/or lower compression
levels result in larger images.
Bandwidth affected.
• Access by large numbers of Motion JPEG an
d/or unicast MPEG-4 clients. Band-
width affected.
• Simultaneous viewing of differe
nt streams (resolution, compression.) by different
clients. Frame rate and bandwidth affected.
• Accessing both Motion JPEG and MPEG-4 video streams
simultaneously. Frame
rate and bandwidth affected.
• Heavy usage of event settings affects the CPU load. Frame rate affected.
• Heavy network utilization due to poor infrastructure. Bandwidth
affected.
• Viewing on poorly performing client PC’s lowers perceived
performance. Frame
rate affected.
Optimizing your system
To see the bandwidth and frame rate currently required by the video stream, the AXIS
231D+/232D+ provides a tool that can be used to display these values directly in the video
image.
To do this, special format strings
are added as part
of a text overlay. Simply add #r (average frame
rate in fps) and/or #b (average bandwidth in Kbps)
bandwidth in Kbps) to the overlay.
For detailed instructions, please see the online help
for Vi
deo & Image > Overlay Settings, and the
help for File Naming & Date/Time Formats.
Important!
• The figures displayed here are the values as delivered by the server. If other restrictions are
currently in force, (e.g. bandwidth limitation) these values might not correspond to those
actually received by the client.
• For Motion JPEG, these values will only be accurate as long as no frame rate limit has been specified.
