Who here uses CBR and why?

[rufunky]

I'm curious, who here uses CBR and why..

I have always just left my NVR on CBR as it was the default. Until recently when I had to setup a camera without NVR just onboard flash media for recording. This led me to do some reading, I found a good majority of people recommend VBR with no complaints of video quality suffering.

 

[bigredfish]

I use CBR, got used to doing so with tightly focused LPR cameras at 120ft where I have found VBR to react too slowly. I also run high Kbps bitrate 8192-10,400

I'm sure many will believe that's caveman talk, but my video quality speaks for itself and I don't care about storage.

 

[handinpalm]

I started out setting all my cams to VBR (2MP and 4MP). I saved a ton of memory for longer retention time. I have found that for what ever reason the 4MP cams (Dahua) were showing some slow resolution degradation on about a 12 sec cycle. I changed all the 4MP cams to CBR and at 8KB bit stream and it definately helped. So now run the 2 MP on VBR (max resolution) and 4MP on CBR.

 

[wtimothyholman]

I use CBR, got used to doing so with tightly focused LPR cameras at 120ft where I have found VBR to react too slowly. I also run high Kbps bitrate 8192-10,400

I'm sure many will believe that's caveman talk, but my video quality speaks for itself and I don't care about storage.

Same here. CBR seems to give somewhat better results in my LPR cameras at night, where the image may go from totally dark to a brightly illuminated license plate with headlights in a fraction of a second. For my other cameras, I use VBR.