Adaptive streaming (explained)

Adaptive streaming is a streaming method that is used when multiple live video streams are shown in the same view. It enables the clients to automatically select the live video streams with the best match in resolution to the streams requested by the view items. Adaptive streaming reduces the network load and improves the decoding capability and performance of the client computer.

You can set up the closest match of available video streams for the resolution requested by a view item when you enable adaptive streaming in XProtect Smart Client. For more information, see Enable adaptive streaming.

In XProtect Smart Client, adaptive streaming can be applied in live and in playback mode. In the mobile clients, it is only available in live mode.

When applied in playback mode, the streaming method is referred to as adaptive playback. For more information, see Adaptive playback (explained)