Blue Iris and CPU Usage

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chewie

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May 22, 2015
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Hello Gents
I been trying to bring down the CPU usage on my set up, I have 5 cameras, 3 HK's, 1 huisun and 1 Sunba, they are all set to frame rate 15 fps, I read the threads here regarding this problem, I have set the record to direct to disc and still the CPU during Idle is between 40 to 49%, I have the Blue Iris in a Dell E4610 laptop computer, it has I5 M520 240 GHZ processor, 8 GB of Ram, I don't have a lot of programs in this computer at all, I also using the CMS client software that came with the Sumba camera and this program at Idle is 16 to 19% CPU usage.
I am looking for more ideas on how to bring Blue Iris down, or and recommendation on another computer system that will work better with blue Iris.
I will appreciate any comments.
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
Chewie.
 
chewie said:
Hello Gents
I been trying to bring down the CPU usage on my set up, I have 5 cameras, 3 HK's, 1 huisun and 1 Sunba, they are all set to frame rate 15 fps, I read the threads here regarding this problem, I have set the record to direct to disc and still the CPU during Idle is between 40 to 49%, I have the Blue Iris in a Dell E4610 laptop computer, it has I5 M520 240 GHZ processor, 8 GB of Ram, I don't have a lot of programs in this computer at all, I also using the CMS client software that came with the Sumba camera and this program at Idle is 16 to 19% CPU usage.
I am looking for more ideas on how to bring Blue Iris down, or and recommendation on another computer system that will work better with blue Iris.
I will appreciate any comments.
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
Chewie.
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That processor is very weak. It also doesnt support intel quicksync which blue iris can utilize for hardware acceleration. Search the forums for elitedesk or optiplex. Buy an i5-4590 system which can be had for about 300 dollars.
 
fenderman said:
That processor is very weak. It also doesnt support intel quicksync which blue iris can utilize for hardware acceleration. Search the forums for elitedesk or optiplex. Buy an i5-4590 system which can be had for about 300 dollars.
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Thanks Fanderman, i will get one of these systems.
Regards.
Chewie
 
fenderman said:
That processor is very weak. It also doesnt support intel quicksync which blue iris can utilize for hardware acceleration. Search the forums for elitedesk or optiplex. Buy an i5-4590 system which can be had for about 300 dollars.
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fenderman is right, I had an old computer I was using and it was maxing out and consistently running at 85-90% with three cameras, I now have an i5 and it runs around 25-30 with four cameras. fenderman, do you have all your cameras recording direct to disc or do you recommend that? I am wanting to add two more cameras (for a total of 6 probably running 3mp each.
 
ipcamdude22 said:
fenderman is right, I had an old computer I was using and it was maxing out and consistently running at 85-90% with three cameras, I now have an i5 and it runs around 25-30 with four cameras. fenderman, do you have all your cameras recording direct to disc or do you recommend that? I am wanting to add two more cameras (for a total of 6 probably running 3mp each.
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Yes all cams record direct to disk. Not using it will chew up cpu resources quickly.
 
fenderman said:
Yes all cams record direct to disk. Not using it will chew up cpu resources quickly.
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fenderman, I enabled the "Use intel HD hardware acceleration for H.264 decoding" I also went in to each camera and went to video, configure and under hardware decoding made sure it said "default" I also restarted the entire system, when I did all the cams had a "no signal" and if I changed the hardware decoding to "no" the picture came back, am I missing something, it also seemed like the cpu actually went up.
Thanks
 
ipcamdude22 said:
fenderman, I enabled the "Use intel HD hardware acceleration for H.264 decoding" I also went in to each camera and went to video, configure and under hardware decoding made sure it said "default" I also restarted the entire system, when I did all the cams had a "no signal" and if I changed the hardware decoding to "no" the picture came back, am I missing something, it also seemed like the cpu actually went up.
Thanks
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There is a glitch with win7 and running as a service. Change one of those or wait for a fix. It will drastically reduce cpu.
 
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fenderman said:
There is a glitch with win7 and running as a service. Change one of those or wait for a fix. It will drastically reduce cpu.
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That seemed to have done the trick. I stopped it as a service and cpu went down about 10% I can upgrade to windows 10, any issues with that? I also noticed the one of my cams doesnt seem to like the acceleration, the bottom half of the picture doesnt show. I disable the encoding and the picture comes back.
 
fenderman said:
There is a glitch with win7 and running as a service. Change one of those or wait for a fix. It will drastically reduce cpu.
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The HA really seems to have done the trick, I am running 4 cams and am down to around 15%! As for running as a service, correct me if I am wrong but that is basically so BI will start again on it's own if there is a power outage correct? I have my system on a UPS so that would probably do the trick, am I right on that?
Thanks
 
ipcamdude22 said:
The HA really seems to have done the trick, I am running 4 cams and am down to around 15%! As for running as a service, correct me if I am wrong but that is basically so BI will start again on it's own if there is a power outage correct? I have my system on a UPS so that would probably do the trick, am I right on that?
Thanks
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you can easilly restart blue iris after a power outage using this method https://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthrea...PC-w-Windows-8-1?p=33159&viewfull=1#post33159
or simply using blue iris tools. Running blue iris tools will also restart blue iris if there is a crash or if finds the webserver not responding.
 
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