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If you have a slow Internet connection or if viewers of the web broadcasts
notice delays you can increase lossless or lossy compression to reduce
Internet bandwidth usage.

If viewers of the web broadcast notice poor image quality you can reduce the
amount of lossy compression.

If the video capture workstation CPU usage is too high during web
broadcasts or if viewers of the web broadcasts notice delays and you have
determined that the delays are not caused by low Internet bandwidth. The
delays could be caused by high CPU usage on the video capture workstation
resulting in the video capture workstation not being able to process all image
data. Lossless compression increases CPU usage, so you can reduce CPU
usage during web broadcasting by reducing lossless compression.

Note: You cannot change web broadcasting compression during a web broadcast.
You must stop the broadcast, adjust the settings and then start the broadcast again.

Changes made to default web broadcast compression settings are only visible to
viewers of the web broadcast. Changing these settings does not change how the
video capture application displays, records, or prints captured images.

14 Advanced Topics

14.1 EDID

14.1.1 About EDID

Extended display identification data (EDID) is data provided by a video display device
(usually a monitor) to describe its capabilities to a video source. The video source
uses the EDID to determine the capabilities of the monitor and, therefore, to

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