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Thanks looney2ns! I didn't realize that a camera can serve multiple "main" or "sub" streams to multiple servers... for some reason I thought one stream per server like it was a single pipe. I wonder how many servers a camera can stream video to on the same channel simultaneously? Would you know...

Is it possible to use a camera's main stream for a "main" BI server, and the cameras substream for a "backup" BI server for the purposes of redundancy or is there a better way to have a failover system? Just trying to get my head around it. Thanks for any and all help!

Thanks again Southern Yankee. With your help I'm now confident to pick up the i7 4770 PC - even if CPU usage is 10% higher than yours as the 4770 is a slower processor, that should be OK. I have fewer cameras but they're 4-5 MP so it should balance out overall.

Thanks Southern Yankee and wittaj. It seems H264 is still the standard, most reliable way to go for BI. It would be great if using cameras in H265 mode worked as well as in H264 because then we would have the best of all worlds and would be able to make the most use of the storage space we have...

Thanks for your help SouthernYankee. From your signature, it looks like you have 4 H265 cameras and 10 H264 cameras - that's impressive! Do you use hardware acceleration for the H264 cameras but not the H265 cameras? Can I please ask, do you use motion detection and what is your average CPU...

Could anybody tell me if it is possible to run Blue Iris 5 with H265 cameras on an older i7 4770 (Haswell generation) processor which only does H264 quicksync and H265 using the CPU? Or is it only possible using a Skylake or later CPU with H265 Quicksync support? I have four HIK Vision cameras...