Hi,
I am currently using a Geovision Pro VMS System. It works well for my needs but is lacking after 10+ years of usage. My Ip cameras range from Geovision, Dahua, Hikvision, and a bunch of PIR Onvif cameras. I recently bought a USB “charger” style camera & couldn’t get it working with Geovision but 5 minutes of the BI trial and I had the camera working. The current 44 Cameras in geovision on the same hardware uses about 44% - 25fps. Cameras are mostly 2mp, a few 4mp, and 3 5mp
In the matrix view Geovision does (I think) 2nd stream for active preview, then when you click on the window it gives the full stream 1.
I shut down the server, then put the new 250GB SSD, installed Windows Server 2016, then installed BI (bought and registered from this site). I added about 35 cameras and the CPU usage was maxed out at 100%. Still far short of my 45 camera goal. At the 100% usage the web viewer was unusable.
I tried a number of things including:
Direct to Disk on all cameras
Hardware decode – intel
Limit live preview to 1 – makes it unusable for live watching
Run as service (and not as service)
Am I asking to much from the BI software & my current hardware? The Geovision VMS works just fine so I
figured BI would work fine also.
Now, I tried again with Windows 7, same everything
I added 10 cameras – all same settings as above.
Hardware decoding off – screen up= 50% CPU
Hardware decoding on intel – screen up = 35% CPU
Hardware decoding on intel – screen minimized = 29% CPU
Hardware decoding on intel – screen minimized – Logged from 2nd PC to web view = 35% CPU
In a perfect world I can move everything to BI & keep either the BI software open viewing at a decent FPS or the Web browser.
If not I can take the cheapie USB “Charger” camera keep it with BI, then run BI in a Windows Server VM (not as ideal but will work for a single or a few cameras.
Any suggestions on what I can try?
Thanks,
Rich
I am currently using a Geovision Pro VMS System. It works well for my needs but is lacking after 10+ years of usage. My Ip cameras range from Geovision, Dahua, Hikvision, and a bunch of PIR Onvif cameras. I recently bought a USB “charger” style camera & couldn’t get it working with Geovision but 5 minutes of the BI trial and I had the camera working. The current 44 Cameras in geovision on the same hardware uses about 44% - 25fps. Cameras are mostly 2mp, a few 4mp, and 3 5mp
In the matrix view Geovision does (I think) 2nd stream for active preview, then when you click on the window it gives the full stream 1.
I shut down the server, then put the new 250GB SSD, installed Windows Server 2016, then installed BI (bought and registered from this site). I added about 35 cameras and the CPU usage was maxed out at 100%. Still far short of my 45 camera goal. At the 100% usage the web viewer was unusable.
I tried a number of things including:
Direct to Disk on all cameras
Hardware decode – intel
Limit live preview to 1 – makes it unusable for live watching
Run as service (and not as service)
Am I asking to much from the BI software & my current hardware? The Geovision VMS works just fine so I
figured BI would work fine also.
Now, I tried again with Windows 7, same everything
I added 10 cameras – all same settings as above.
Hardware decoding off – screen up= 50% CPU
Hardware decoding on intel – screen up = 35% CPU
Hardware decoding on intel – screen minimized = 29% CPU
Hardware decoding on intel – screen minimized – Logged from 2nd PC to web view = 35% CPU
In a perfect world I can move everything to BI & keep either the BI software open viewing at a decent FPS or the Web browser.
If not I can take the cheapie USB “Charger” camera keep it with BI, then run BI in a Windows Server VM (not as ideal but will work for a single or a few cameras.
Any suggestions on what I can try?
Thanks,
Rich