beepsilver
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I see there's a new update with HA updates, other enhancements and bug fixes. Is it running stable? Any benefit to CPU usage with the HA update?
I see there's a new update with HA updates, other enhancements and bug fixes. Is it running stable? Any benefit to CPU usage with the HA update?
The main bug is fixed in Blue Iris 4.3.2.1 available now. There is still a problem where hardware accelerated 1080p cams have slightly corrupted clip playback, but it isn't a big deal and I'm sure Ken will fix it soon.Don't update yet if you use UI2, until everything is ironed out...
This is going to be the HUGE benefit!!!
"If you are using hardware decoding with a particular camera, hardware decoding is now also used by the BVR playback engine whether in the local viewer or remote client. "
Apparently GPU-Z was showing me stats for my GTX 950. The Intel graphics (i7-3770k CPU) shows a GPU usage around 22% normally, and when I turned VPP on for a 4MP @ 15fps camera, it went up to 35% and GPU power consumption went from 1.2 watts to 1.6 watts. Enabled VPP on another 4MP @ 15fps camera and usage went to 45% and power consumption to 2 watts. No detectable difference in CPU usage, but that bounces up and down a lot on my system so I could have just missed it.CPU and GPU usage seemed unaffected, and remained around 50% / 20% as is normal.
I'm not really sure what to make of these results.
The same thing happened to me. Black screens on all my cameras, then everything went back to normal once i turned VPP back off. Im leaving it off for now until more bug fixes come.Very strange. At least it's working for you guys. When I turn on VPP, 10 of my 11 cams show nothing but a black screen. Tried a restart. Nothing. Then a reboot. Still nothing. I turned off VPP and all the cams come back on correctly. For kicks, I turned it on for just a single cam. That cam went to a black screen.
I must be doing something wrong, but I don't have a clue what, so... for now at least, I'm leaving VPP off...
So based on what you are saying, it sounds like they still have not fixed the ability to run as as service under Windows 7 using HA. This is extremely disappointing because until that is fixed, I can't really update to the latest version.As far as everyone with the black screen when enabled, it looks like the exact same bug that's been here since the ability to turn on hardware decoding. As it has always been, when Blue Iris is set to run as a background service, none of the cameras show anything when hardware decoding is enabled. You disable either one of those and the cameras work fine. This is actually one of the main features I purchased this software for, and was hoping he would have a fix by now (been waiting 5 months).
I'm running BI as a service with HA turned on and everything is fine.As far as everyone with the black screen when enabled, it looks like the exact same bug that's been here since the ability to turn on hardware decoding. As it has always been, when Blue Iris is set to run as a background service, none of the cameras show anything when hardware decoding is enabled. You disable either one of those and the cameras work fine. This is actually one of the main features I purchased this software for, and was hoping he would have a fix by now (been waiting 5 months).