Video recording system (100, 200a, 200b) comprising: a capturer (101, 201) for recording a video sequence; a memory; a compressor (103, 203) for performing video compression on the video sequence to obtain a quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream representing the video sequence; the compressor (103, 203) being configured such that the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream may be downscaled without any transcoding by simply omitting portions of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream; performing real-time output of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream in a down-scaled version, a number of frames of the video sequence being maintained in the down-scaled version, so that there will be no reduction in the temporal resolution by omitting frames of the video sequence; and storing a part of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream, said part being missing as compared to the down-scaled version of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream, within the memory, so that only that part of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream which has not yet been transmitted, in the real-time output, to a network subscriber is stored within the memory; and a network interface (105, 205) via which the stored missing part of the datastream may be requested by the network subscriber so as to access the video sequence at a later point in time in a high-quality manner. a capturer (101, 201) for recording a video sequence; a memory; a compressor (103, 203) for performing video compression on the video sequence to obtain a quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream representing the video sequence; the compressor (103, 203) being configured such that the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream may be downscaled without any transcoding by simply omitting portions of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream; performing real-time output of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream in a down-scaled version, a number of frames of the video sequence being maintained in the down-scaled version, so that there will be no reduction in the temporal resolution by omitting frames of the video sequence; and storing a part of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream, said part being missing as compared to the down-scaled version of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream, within the memory, so that only that part of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream which has not yet been transmitted, in the real-time output, to a network subscriber is stored within the memory; and a network interface (105, 205) via which the stored missing part of the datastream may be requested by the network subscriber so as to access the video sequence at a later point in time in a high-quality manner. performing video compression on the video sequence to obtain a quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream representing the video sequence; the compressor (103, 203) being configured such that the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream may be downscaled without any transcoding by simply omitting portions of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream; performing real-time output of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream in a down-scaled version, a number of frames of the video sequence being maintained in the down-scaled version, so that there will be no reduction in the temporal resolution by omitting frames of the video sequence; and storing a part of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream, said part being missing as compared to the down-scaled version of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream, within the memory, so that only that part of the quality- and/or resolution-scalable datastream which has not yet been transmitted, in the real-time output, to a network subscriber is stored within the memory; and a network interface (105, 205) via which the stored missing part of the datastream may be requested by the network subscriber so as to access the video sequence at a later point in time in a high-quality manner.