The MPEG4 Encoder object is intended for recording an archive in MPEG4 format. If the object is not created, then by default the archive is recorded in the same codec in which the video signal is received.

The MPEG4 Encoder object is created under the Camera object, the video archive of which must be stored in this codec.

Right after the MPEG4 Encoder object is created, the current archive fragment is finalized and the new fragment starts to be recorded in the MPEG4 codec.

Setting up the MPEG4 Encoder object consists in setting the Image quality index parameter: it affects the frame rate and, therefore, the size of the resulting archive file. The larger the index, the higher the quality and the larger the size.