The ONVIF Media Service

See also: The Proprietary Media Service | Using the Media Service

The ONVIF media service provides functions to configure the streaming properties of the media streams.

You can easily:

Configure the ONVIF Media Profiles.
Configure the video sources and the video encoders.
Configure the audio sources and the audio encoders.
Configure the metadata streams.
Request the stream URI.
Configure the overlays.

Mandatory codec capabilities

JPEG video encoding - QVGA resolution
G.711 µ-law audio encoding
JPEG video encoding - Other than QVGA resolution
H.264 video encoding

Mandatory streaming capabilities

RTP / RTCP
RTP over UDP - Unicast
RTP interleaved in RTSP over HTTP
RTP interleaved in RTSP over HTTPS
RTP payloads for the formats supported by the device
RTP metadata payload
RTSP Port 554 as default session description using SDP
RTSP Metadata Stream Description