Setting Playback Quality for Local Device


Purpose:

You can set the playback quality for local device. Or you can also customize the quality.

Setting Quality to Clear

Steps:

  1. Tap on the playback page to enter the quality switching panel.
  2. Note: The icon may vary according to the actual video quality.

  3. Tap Clear to change the video quality to Clear.

Customizing Quality

Steps:

  1. Tap Custom to activate the customized panel as shown below.
  2. Configure the parameters according to actual needs, including Resolution, Frame Rate and Bitrate.
  3. Tap Confirm to save the settings.
  4. Note: The playback effect is related to the performance of your network and phone hardware. If the playback is not fluent or the screen appears blurred, you should reduce the resolution, frame rate and bitrate of the camera in Custom mode.

The following table shows the recommended frame rate and bitrate configuration for different resolution at H.264, H.264+ and H.265 video compression by Moto X Pro (CPU: Snapdragon805, Android 5.0.2).

Resolution

1-ch

2-ch

4-ch

Recommended Configuration

H.264 (Software Decoding)

1080P

 

Frame rate: 25fps;Bit rate: 4Mbps

720P

Frame rate: 25fps; Bit rate: 2Mbps

4CIF

Frame rate: 25fps; Bit rate: 512Kbps

H.264 (Hardware Decoding)

1080P

Frame rate: 25fps; Bit rate: 4Mbps

720P

Frame rate: 25fps; Bit rate: 2Mbps

4CIF

Frame rate: 25fps; Bit rate: 512Kbps

H.264+ (Software Decoding)

1080P

Frame rate: 25fps; Bit rate: 4Mbps

720P

Frame rate: 25fps; Bit rate: 2Mbps

H.264+ (Hardware Decoding)

1080P

Frame rate: 25fps; Bit rate: 4Mbps

720P

Frame rate: 25fps; Bit rate: 2Mbps

H.265 (Software Decoding. Hardware decoding is not supported.)

1080P

 

Frame rate: 25fps; Bit rate: 2Mbps

720P

Frame rate: 25fps; Bit rate: 1Mbps

4CIF

Frame rate: 25fps; Bit rate: 256Kbps