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Racermama, Run the feed into an IES-500 http://ieslive.com/products/ies-500/ with port forwarding, stream it via RTSP, and your have a H.264 compressed stream with all the controls to lower or higher the bitrate of that feed as well as change resolutions etc

I've not tried that model personally, but i use myself an IES-500 http://ieslive.com/products/ies-500/ to encode all my VMS displays. It's taking a single HDMI feed from my VMS monitor compressing it with H.264, then streaming via RTSP for remote viewing and Multicast MPEGTS for my LAN. If you port forward to the IES-500 as well, you can access it anywhere anytime (with a internet connection).

hi adamcctv, I would recommend running your camera wired, as this is the best way for a smooth feed minus significant packet loss, which causing unpleasant viewing (stuttering freezing etc etc). If you could run your cameras to an NVR or VMS this would be the most ideal way or even have them port forwarded to a central location you could use something like an IES-500 http://ieslive.com/products/ies-500/ to encode the camera feed into H.264, and use that to broadcast the stream in multiple ways (RTSP, MPEGTS etc) to anywhere on the LAN or even across the WAN. The IES-150 also can decode your streams directly with auto switching at set time intervals set by yourself.

Hi Zr1, Trouble i think your going to have with the outdoor wireless camera's is they will most likely still need power of some sort which will need a cable (unless your planning on going outside every time with a ladder to change the batteries every couple of days etc (not so practical specially in winter months). So if you are running a power lead, may as well run an ethernet cable too, the packet dropping will be much less this way as well. You could run all your camera feeds to your NVR and then encode the NVR display (or VMS display) with something like an IES-500 ( http://ieslive.com/products/ies-500/ ) and stream it into a H.264 compressed codec stream, if you port forward it you can access its feed anywhere with VLC player (Smart phone, PC, MAC etc) i think it also has the ability to stream to Youtube which might be something to look into for private viewing, but probably not as ideal.

Hi RonR, I think the biggest issue your going to have if you manage such a long distance wireless solution would be packet dropping. This will cause a lot of issues with frame drops, stuttering video etc etc. If you can i would use a wired network over the WAN for the two locations. This way you can add all your cameras into a VMS (milestone for example, to think of one off the top of my head). This way would be better as you could then use a video server like the IES-500 ( http://ieslive.com/products/ies-500/ ) to compress that VMS display (individually for each camera if you so wished) into a H.264 compressed codec and control the bitrate, frame rates and resolution etc of the stream. You could also open the H.264 stream in VLC or i think IESlive do decoding solutions (IES-150 if memory serves me well), which you can look into as well.