Camera in Grayscale

[dubiousSwain]

Originally Posted by Turing'sEgo

You are absolutely right. Converting to grayscale would reduce the amount of data being sent over the network by a factor of 3 if you are sending raw data.

But you're not sending raw data, you're sending an MJPG. Its lossy compression, and the difference between color and grayscale will be negligible compared to bumping up the compression a bit

[Ozuru]

Originally Posted by dubiousSwain

But you're not sending raw data, you're sending an MJPG. Its lossy compression, and the difference between color and grayscale will be negligible compared to bumping up the compression a bit

Exactly.

[Greg McKaskle]

I don't have time to do the side-by-side compare, but if you use an IP camera such as Axis and flip between color enable of true and false, you will see the difference. JPEG has a special definition for encoding Y only images and it is another way to reduce size. You are deciding whether you lose color and retain detail or lose color and detail by lowering compression. The other lever you can pull is the resolution or size of the image. The final lever is the framerate.

Experiment and make sure the drivers understand how to pull the levers for themselves. The default dashboard gives an LED indicator showing how their usage compares to the field limits. Also, I personally don't have much experience with the new radio and bandwidth limiting, but I expect that the radio will cause the equivalent of framerate limiting if you don't pull the levers to get your usage under the limit. I don't expect the cameras to hog bandwidth the way they were able to in past years.

Greg McKaskle