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VIVOTEK
64 - User's Manual
The frame rate will decrease if you select a higher resolution.
■ Intra frame period
Determine how often for firmware to plant an I frame. The shorter the duration, the 
more likely you will get better video quality, but at the cost of higher network bandwidth 
consumption. Select the intra frame period from the following durations: 1/4 second, 1/2 
second, 1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds, and 4 seconds.
■ Dynamic Intra frame period
High quality motion codecs, such as H.265, utilize the redundancies between video frames to 
deliver video streams at a balance of quality and bit rate. 
The encoding parameters are summarized and illustrated below. The I-frames are completely 
self-referential and they are largest in size. The P-frames are predicted frames. The encoder 
refers to the previous I- or P-frames for redundant image information. 
P I P P P P P P P I P P P P P P P I
By dynamically prolonging the intervals for I-frames insertion to up to 10 seconds, the bit rates 
required for streaming a video can be tremendously reduced. When streaming a video of a 
static scene, the Dynamic Intra frame feature can save up to 53% of bandwidth. The amount of 
bandwidth thus saved is also determined by the activities in the eld of view. If activities occur 
in the scene, rmware automatically shortens the I-frame insertion intervals in order to maintain 
image quality. In the low light or night conditions, the sizes of P-frames tend to be enlarged due 
to the noises, and hence the bandwidth saving effect is also reduced. 
H.264/265 Frame Types
■ Smart stream II










