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Selecting the right CCTV video compression for your needs is important

If you are responsible for planning or designing a new CCTV video surveillance system, you have to make a technology choice regarding which video compression technique to use.

For sure, it will be digital. But which video compression scheme is the most suitable for your application?

The benefits and disadvantages of Motion JPEG, MPEG-4 and H.264 are examined are examined over the next few pages.