amazMint

im using H. 264 Main Profile 800x600 1 Frame i was wondering what bitrate i should use for the video? on a other site i found that 500k is good. What do i you guys think? my goal is to reduce the consumption of the bandwidth.. was using MJPEG until now but today i wanna switch to h. 264 another quest that just came up is wether its better to use http or rtsp to connect the ip cams to a software