Abstract:
A distributed video management system for video surveillance that allows for adaptive transport mechanisms and/or real-time transport mechanisms for delivery of data to a client. The adaptive transport mechanism may include processing video data at distributed camera nodes for delivery to a client at least in part based on a characteristic of the request. In certain contexts, a low-latency real-time transport mechanism may be used to deliver video data to the client. In this regard, the real-time transport mechanism may facilitate decoding of the video data at the client using a standard web browser without requiring extensions, plug-ins, or other software to be installed for use with the native functionality of the browser.