Media Access Control address; is one unique code assigned to a networking device. For example, the network card in a computer has its own MAC address.

One kind of iris, opposite of an AutoIRIS. Manually adjust the camera iris to regulate the amount of light allowed to reach the image sensor.

Megabits per second, a unit for network connection speed. (1 Mbps equals to about one million (1,048, 576) bits per second).

Megabytes per second, a unit for network connection speed. (1 MBps equals to about one million (1,048, 576) bytes per second).

Pixel element is used to display the images captured from digital cameras. The Megapixel is generally equal to one million pixels.

Motion JPEG, is a video codec consisting of a sequence of individual JPEG images. The image quality is independent from the motion of the image that differs from MPEG video.

A device that allows two devices to communicate over telephone lines.

Motion detection is used to trigger motion events. Enable it by adding a new detected window, window name, sensitivity and percentage.

Motion Picture Experts Group standard that specifies a variable rate compression algorithm that is used to compress full-motion image sequences at low data rates.

MPEG-2 is one compression standard and is used to encode audio and video for broadcast signals.

MPEG-4 is the latest graphics and video compression algorithm standard developed by MPEG.These standards made interactive video on CD-ROM, DVD and Digital Television possible.

One compression method of MPEG4, encapsulates the H.263 video stream in MPEG-4 video stream headers. For practical purposes, MPEG4 short header is identical to H.263. Refer to AXIS Whitepaper for details.

One kind of MPEG4 Profile, used to specify which method the MPEG4 decoder would support. It supports I-, PVOPs (frames),CIF resolution and 384 kbit/s. (at the L3 level). Refer to Wikipedia for details.