Method and apparatus in a motion video capturing system

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for delivering motion video, which is captured by a first motion video camera (10; 100), to a client device (16, 18; 106) from said first motion video camera (10; 100). The method comprises receiving at the first motion video camera (10; 100) from the client (16, 18; 106) a request of a motion video and an indication of a requested format, matching, in a transcoding format list of the first motion video camera (10; 100), the selected format to an address of a second motion video camera (12; 102), sending, to said address of the second motion video camera (12; 102), a motion video which have been identified in a request, the motion video having a format different from the selected format, receiving at the first motion video camera (10; 100) from the second motion video camera (12; 102) said requested motion video in the selected format, and sending said requested motion video in the selected format to the client (16, 18; 106) . The invention also relates to a motion video camera (10; 100) including a list (72) having addresses (A1-A3) to transcoding devices (12; 102, 108), decoding format entries (D1-D2) identifying formats the transcoding devices are able to decode, and encoding format entries (E1-E6) identifying formats the transcoding devices are able to encode. Further the motion video camera includes a network interface (66) arranged to allow communication to and from the motion video camera (10; 100) via a network (14), and a processor (60) arranged to identify an address (A1-A3) to a transcoding device (12; 102, 108) in said list (72) based on the format of a requested motion video and an indication of a desired format of the requested video.