Single Port KVM over IP
Figure 3-10 Remote Console Confirmation Dialog
• Encoding
These options are used to adjust the encoding level in terms of
compression and color depth. They are only available unless
"Transmission Encoding" is determined automatically (see the Section
called Transmission Encoding in Chapter 6).
Compression Level:
you may select a value between 1 and 9 for the desired compression
level with level 1 enabling the fastest compression and level 9 the
best compression. The most suitable compression level should
always be seen as a compromise between the network bandwidth
that is available, on your video picture to be transferred, and on the
number of changes between two single video pictures. We
recommend to use a higher compression level if the network
bandwidth is low. The higher the compression level the more time is
needed to pack and unpack the video data on either side of the
connection. The compression quality depends on the video picture
itself, e.g. the number of the colors or the diversity of pixels. The
lower the compression quality, the more data have to be sent and
the longer it may take to transfer the whole video picture.
If level 0 is chosen the video compression is disabled, completely.
The option "Video Optimized" has its advantages if transferring
high-quality motion pictures. In this case the video compression is
disabled, completely and all video data is transferred via network as
full-quality video snippets. Therefore, a high amount of bandwidth is
required to ensure the quality of the video picture.
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