Blue Iris UI3

[bp2008]

@bp2008 Oh, yes I see it there. I assumed it was not available because the keyboard shortcut did not work, at least not on my Macbook. (BTW, keyboard shortcut for reverse playback does work during clip playback)

Follow-up question: any chance to get keyboard shortcut to work for this scenario or is there a blocker in this situation?

The hotkey not working was an oversight on my part. Early in the development I wasn't sure if BI would support reverse playback on the timeline, so I had coded the hotkey to take no action in that case. Forgot to change it. Will be fixed in the UI3-222 release.

@bp2008 In parallel, different request: In upper right corner, any chance to add "Confirmed" and "Cancelled" as 2 additional options? Perhaps toggled via UI settings?

That will be available in UI3-222 also.

 

[bp2008]

UI3-222 is now released with the above changes. As usual, this should be shipped with the next BI update, or you can manually update UI3 according to instructions here.

 

[actran]

@bp2008 Very nice!

BTW, in your screenshot below, the word "canceled" has 1 L, versus 2 LL's in left-side panel drop down.

'Canceled' or 'Cancelled'?

One L or two?

www.merriam-webster.com

The hotkey not working was an oversight on my part. Early in the development I wasn't sure if BI would support reverse playback on the timeline, so I had coded the hotkey to take no action in that case. Forgot to change it. Will be fixed in the UI3-222 release.



That will be available in UI3-222 also.

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[TonyR]

UI3-222 is now released with the above changes. As usual, this should be shipped with the next BI update, or you can manually update UI3 according to instructions here.

Dang, what took you so long, Brian? Getting a little slow as we age, eh?

 

[looney2ns]

Dang, what took you so long, Brian? Getting a little slow as we age, eh?

I think sometimes he must wander around the house with a keyboard strapped to his arm, ready to code at any moment!

 

[bp2008]

@bp2008 Very nice!

BTW, in your screenshot below, the word "canceled" has 1 L, versus 2 LL's in left-side panel drop down.

'Canceled' or 'Cancelled'?

One L or two?

www.merriam-webster.com

Yup, I changed it to LL before release so it would match the spelling used in Blue Iris.

 

[actran]

@bp2008 No rush. Another observation: during timeline playback, I can't seem to get audio to work. It's always muted as highlighted in this screenshot.

Even when I am only doing timeline playback for 1 camera, and not a group.

If I do playback via clips tab, audio works as expected.

Is this a known limitation with timeline? If so, is there plans to get audio to work?

 

[bp2008]

Is this a known limitation with timeline? If so, is there plans to get audio to work?

Yes, it is known. Blue Iris simply can't play audio on the timeline yet. If this matters to you, please request this capability from Blue Iris support so Ken will increase its priority.

 

[actran]

@bp2008 For Auto-Maximize feature, any thought about having an alternative behavior where you still display all the non-triggered cameras but at much smaller size? This way allows the user to select to a non-triggered camera if the action on the triggered camera has moved off that camera

 

[bp2008]

@bp2008 For Auto-Maximize feature, any thought about having an alternative behavior where you still display all the non-triggered cameras but at much smaller size? This way allows the user to select to a non-triggered camera if the action on the triggered camera has moved off that camera

I can offer some thoughts.

First, Blue Iris doesn't offer any way for UI3 to change the size of the cameras in the group stream (and even if they did, I think wouldn't use it due to the complexity).

Second, resizing a camera would also move and resize the other cameras which would make it very disorienting. I don't think this would be a nice feature to use.

 

[erkme73]

I'm still getting horrible playback on my PC and phone unless I move the resolution down to something less than 720p. Looking at the stats for nerds, do that reveal any clues? I get the same playback on the BI mobile app on my higher-end android phone as well - so I'm not sure whether it's server or client (or both). The CPU on the client and server never get saturated and I'm able to speed test to my full GB up/down speed from my ISP while doing these tests, so I seem to have plenty of LAN bandwidth.
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[bp2008]

I'm still getting horrible playback on my PC and phone unless I move the resolution down to something less than 720p. Looking at the stats for nerds, do that reveal any clues? I get the same playback on the BI mobile app on my higher-end android phone as well - so I'm not sure whether it's server or client (or both). The CPU on the client and server never get saturated and I'm able to speed test to my full GB up/down speed from my ISP while doing these tests, so I seem to have plenty of LAN bandwidth.

What are the problems specifically? The low frame rate?

What file type are your clips? In my experience, Blue Iris is really bad at MP4 playback so you should always use BVR.

What CPU are you running on the server?

Which H.264 player are you using in UI3? If it is the JavaScript player, then it can be a limiting factor on slow devices.

 

[erkme73]

What are the problems specifically? The low frame rate?

Slow and bursty. The overlay shows the recorded frame rate 15FPS (and it does record at that rate since exports are smooth). The FPS on UI3 shows it drops down as low as 2, but typically stays at about half the recorded frame rate.

What file type are your clips? In my experience, Blue Iris is really bad at MP4 playback so you should always use BVR.

Everything is BVR direct-to-disc:

What CPU are you running on the server?

It's an i7-6xxx Dell Optiplex 7040 with 48GB of ram, 1TB epci SSD for OS and 14TB spinny drive for clips. Drives are not getting much write demand - they're certainly not saturated...

Which H.264 player are you using in UI3? If it is the JavaScript player, then it can be a limiting factor on slow devices.

It's not. Using HTML5:

 

[bp2008]

Slow and bursty. The overlay shows the recorded frame rate 15FPS (and it does record at that rate since exports are smooth). The FPS on UI3 shows it drops down as low as 2, but typically stays at about half the recorded frame rate.

Everything is BVR direct-to-disc:

It's an i7-6xxx Dell Optiplex 7040 with 48GB of ram, 1TB epci SSD for OS and 14TB spinny drive for clips. Drives are not getting much write demand - they're certainly not saturated...

It's not. Using HTML5:

Well then I unforunately have no idea what could be wrong.

 

[erkme73]

Well then I unforunately have no idea what could be wrong.

No worries. Thanks for the suggestions. Its not a deal breaker. When I watch live and use the D2W settings, its great. It's just playback that sucks... but if it's ever critical, I can export it for a smoot video.

 

[920cody]

@bp2008 First, let me say this is a great piece of software!
I have an issue and a request for an upgrade.
First, the request. Is it possible to add the GPU % to the stats on the lower left corner? I'm running Deepstack GPU version and would like to be able to monitor the GPU usage overall.

As for the issue, when I open the UI3 interface, all my cameras are blurry. I run 7 cameras. When I open them individually, they're crystal clear. It's just blurry when I see them all on the main page. I've enclosed a screenshot as an attachment to this post.

Thanks!

 

[sebastiantombs]

I can't answer for BP2008 on the GPU but the blurry video means you need to change the bit rate of your sub streams in each camera. Also switch them to CBR rather than VBR. Increase the bit rate of the sub streams a little at a time until you see "clean" video.

 

[920cody]

I can't answer for BP2008 on the GPU but the blurry video means you need to change the bit rate of your sub streams in each camera. Also switch them to CBR rather than VBR. Increase the bit rate of the sub streams a little at a time until you see "clean" video.

I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

 

[920cody]

I can't answer for BP2008 on the GPU but the blurry video means you need to change the bit rate of your sub streams in each camera. Also switch them to CBR rather than VBR. Increase the bit rate of the sub streams a little at a time until you see "clean" video.

All cameras already CBR. I increased bit rate of the sub streams from where they were, all the way up to the max value and it made no difference.

 

[920cody]

I think I found out how to fix the blurry images...In the UI settings, under Video Player, I increased the Dynamic Group Max Resolution from 1440 to 3960 and it immediately made a difference. Going higher, didn't do anything.