What is faster (low network traffic) encoding for video only streaming? VP8 or jpeg?

Question

I'm making an open source project and I'm using gstreamer. What I want is to capture the input from camera and transmit to another IP address. What is faster to do with? vp8enc or jpegenc? If so what settings should I use? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It doesn´t matter the codec that you use to have a very low bandwidth usage, it is just a matter of setting a very low bitrate in the encoder. But, of course, this would trade off the quality of the resulting video. The codec of the two cited that will give a better image quality for the same bitrate is the VP8. Just keep in mind to use the correct parameters for the encoder (using intra only in VP8 could result in an image quality worse than Motion JPEG)