Some Zavio IP cameras have an SD memory card slot that can be used to record surveillance video and/or still snapshots to. Videos and still snapshots that are recorded to the SD card can be accessed and downloaded to a PC for playback. The calculations below document the amount of storage needed for 24 hours of recording using different resolution, video quality, and frame rate settings. The latest Zavio IP cameras support H.264 video encoding which is the latest and most optimal compression codec. Some older Zavio models do did not yet support H.264, so MPEG4 calculations are also provided.

FPS - (frames per second) this is the number of video frames that are recorded per second.

Video Quality - this is a setting on the camera that adjusts the amount of compression applied to the video. The more compression that is applied, the less storage that is required but the quality of the video degrades more.

Resolution - this is the size of the video image that is captured in pixels, width x height. For example