At ISC West next week we will see some new IP camera models that will use the H.264 compression standard.  Arecont Vision announced their new H.264 megapixel camera lineup earlier this year at the Intersec show in Dubai, and will be showing them at ISC.  ACTi will again be showing pre-release versions of their H.264 megapixel cameras.  We may see some other new H.264 IP camera announcements as well.

H.264, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10, offers advantages for digital video surveillance applications.  It generally produces smaller file sizes with video quality that is as good or better than video compressed using other methods.

The exacqVision VMS software was built to be compression-independent, supporting standards-based video compression formats.  exacqVision makes extensive use of the Intel Integrated Performace Primitives for optimized video decompression on the latest processors.  As such, exacqVision is fully H.264 capable and it is ready for the upcoming H.264 IP cameras.  And all supported IP cameras can coexist together in an exacqVision system, even if they are different in compression formats and resolution.

When these new H.264-based IP cameras start shipping from the various vendors, we will have support for them.  We’ll see you at ISC West.