Hello everyone, great to be here.
Just started using Blue Iris, have some problems and questions for you all.
1. So anyway, Im using an I7 2600k processor with a 970 Nvidia GTX graphics card, it's a retired PC I built myself for gaming, and brought out of retirement to run Blue Iris. My computer is having a hard time with 8 cameras, and Im hoping to expand to 9-10. In the front of the house I have 1 by the door, and 3 placed for field of view purposes, in the back yard I have pretty much the same. I have 6 recording continuously id like to have all 8 recording continuously, since last night some drunk driver hit both of my trash cans which were 6 feet apart, and one of the front cameras that was on "when triggered" didnt record this motion event, one of the cameras that was on continuous record caught one of the trash cans being hit. You think I can get 10 cameras to continuously record with this setup?
I looked here, Im running Reolink 410, and Reolink 520 cameras at 5MP 15 FPS and doing calculation with the table in here seems to suggest my PC would be fine, but it isn't with 8 cameras continiously recording the CPU usage goes to near 100 and the PC crashes.
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2. Ive spent several hours trying to watch youtube videos on how to properly configure Blue Iris, I moved the frame rate down to 15 fps, Ive tried and failed to get Blue Iris to display a secondary feed, and record the main substream, it ends up displaying the low quality and also recording the low quality substream what do you do about that? Select record both streams? I dont really need to record both substreams.
3. What processor would be a good choice to replace my aging I7? I already have ram, a case, a power supply, 24 TB of hard drive space, an old SSD to run blue iris and operating system they're pretty high quality. Im open to considering a refurbished prebuilt PC that people seem to recommend on here, but it's likely going to have a worse case, PSU, fans and air flow. Ive got a Micro Center near me no Fry's. Would like to get a processor motherboard combo at around $300.
4. How do you setup main stream and substream if Blue Iris doesnt automatically detect them? 4 of my cameras are RLC 410 and it doesnt automatically detect them and just displays and records in HD.
Some other steps ive made is on the video settings, changed Hardware Decode to Nvidia NVDEC, and GPU any which seemed to help the processor load.
Just started using Blue Iris, have some problems and questions for you all.
1. So anyway, Im using an I7 2600k processor with a 970 Nvidia GTX graphics card, it's a retired PC I built myself for gaming, and brought out of retirement to run Blue Iris. My computer is having a hard time with 8 cameras, and Im hoping to expand to 9-10. In the front of the house I have 1 by the door, and 3 placed for field of view purposes, in the back yard I have pretty much the same. I have 6 recording continuously id like to have all 8 recording continuously, since last night some drunk driver hit both of my trash cans which were 6 feet apart, and one of the front cameras that was on "when triggered" didnt record this motion event, one of the cameras that was on continuous record caught one of the trash cans being hit. You think I can get 10 cameras to continuously record with this setup?
I looked here, Im running Reolink 410, and Reolink 520 cameras at 5MP 15 FPS and doing calculation with the table in here seems to suggest my PC would be fine, but it isn't with 8 cameras continiously recording the CPU usage goes to near 100 and the PC crashes.
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2. Ive spent several hours trying to watch youtube videos on how to properly configure Blue Iris, I moved the frame rate down to 15 fps, Ive tried and failed to get Blue Iris to display a secondary feed, and record the main substream, it ends up displaying the low quality and also recording the low quality substream what do you do about that? Select record both streams? I dont really need to record both substreams.
3. What processor would be a good choice to replace my aging I7? I already have ram, a case, a power supply, 24 TB of hard drive space, an old SSD to run blue iris and operating system they're pretty high quality. Im open to considering a refurbished prebuilt PC that people seem to recommend on here, but it's likely going to have a worse case, PSU, fans and air flow. Ive got a Micro Center near me no Fry's. Would like to get a processor motherboard combo at around $300.
4. How do you setup main stream and substream if Blue Iris doesnt automatically detect them? 4 of my cameras are RLC 410 and it doesnt automatically detect them and just displays and records in HD.
Some other steps ive made is on the video settings, changed Hardware Decode to Nvidia NVDEC, and GPU any which seemed to help the processor load.
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