Hi. I just wanted to ask what bitrate you guys use. I don't want to set it too low so that my image will be unusable to "catch the bad guys".
I have 9 Dahua Starlight Cameras attached to a Dell OptiPlex i7 6700 with 16 gigs of RAM, a 250 GB SSD and an 8TB Purple Drive.
I have disabled Windows Defender. I have also disabled motion detection for cameras that don't need it. The cameras are set to write to disk directly. I have turned off overlays from Blue Iris.
The frame rate is set for 25 fps. Is this too much or just right?
I have initially set the bitrate to 4096 Kb/S and was getting around 60% CPU utilization. When I set the bitrate up to 6144, the utilization came up to 85%.
I would like to set the bitrate even higher. Storage is not an issue. I can get another 8TB hard drive. But I don't think my CPU can take it.
I am afraid I might have to swap up my CPU if I pick a higher bitrate. =(
Any insights from experienced users will be appreciated.
I have 9 Dahua Starlight Cameras attached to a Dell OptiPlex i7 6700 with 16 gigs of RAM, a 250 GB SSD and an 8TB Purple Drive.
I have disabled Windows Defender. I have also disabled motion detection for cameras that don't need it. The cameras are set to write to disk directly. I have turned off overlays from Blue Iris.
The frame rate is set for 25 fps. Is this too much or just right?
I have initially set the bitrate to 4096 Kb/S and was getting around 60% CPU utilization. When I set the bitrate up to 6144, the utilization came up to 85%.
I would like to set the bitrate even higher. Storage is not an issue. I can get another 8TB hard drive. But I don't think my CPU can take it.
I am afraid I might have to swap up my CPU if I pick a higher bitrate. =(
Any insights from experienced users will be appreciated.