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Manage Live Feed Video Quality
Manage Live Feed Video Quality

Learn how to change a video quality for live video

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When viewing a live feed, you can manage the video quality in a couple of ways:

  • Toggle the video quality:

    • Standard Quality (SQ) provides a shorter delay and uses less bandwidth.

    • High Quality (HQ) has better image quality, but uses more bandwidth and has a greater delay than SQ.


Select a camera's live video quality

  1. In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

  2. Select the camera you want to view.

  3. In the bottom left of the live stream, select Video Quality and select/switch between SQ and HQ, as needed.


Set the default live stream

  1. In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

  2. In the left navigation, click Settings.

  3. Select the video quality from the Default Cloud Live Stream Quality dropdown.


Compare the live feed bitrate

Bitrates vary by camera model and whether you are streaming in SQ or HQ. See Bandwidth Consumption & Uplink Requirements for Video for the bitrate value per model and video quality.


Camera framerates

The default framerate for most cameras is 24 FPS. If the camera location is set to one of the following counties, the framerate will default to 25 FPS.

United Kingdom
Ireland
Germany
France
Russia
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Netherlands
Belgium
Poland
Portugal
Finland
Turkey
Israel
Australia
New Zealand
Argentina
Jamaica
Argentina
South Africa
Egypt
India
Malaysia
Thailand
Vietnam
Japan

Need help? Contact Verkada Support.

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