day/night IP bandwidth load

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mikb
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Re: day/night IP bandwidth load

Post by mikb »

Could the increase in data (data rate) be because the camera is trying to encode an image that is more noisy than in daytime? The penalty of trying to work in reduced light level?

If the camera is encoding at constant-quality, the data rate will go up to represent the noise.
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