Blue Iris and Reolink cameras.

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It was worth a try, anyway. Reolink controls their frame and iframe rates in what I consider to be a very arbitrary manner. When the iframe drops below a number that matches the frame rate, which also varies dramatically, there's just not enough information for quality, reliable, video. A good reson to avoid Reolink.
 

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I'm using my reolink cameras with hardware acceleration in Blue Iris. You need to use Direct VA2 for it to work.

My iframe rates are at a very stable 0.50. I believe this is done via having good wireless signal, setting your shutter speed correctly (mostly for night time so it doesn't go into auto low shutter, bright mode) and setting a frame rate that can handle your wireless setup.
 
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I'm using my reolink cameras with hardware acceleration in Blue Iris. You need to use Direct VA2 for it to work.

My iframe rates are at a very stable 0.50. I believe this is done via having good wireless signal, setting your shutter speed correctly (mostly for night time so it doesn't go into auto low shutter, bright mode) and setting a frame rate that can handle your wireless setup.
I have hardware acceleration enabled. How do I use Direct VA2?
 

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I'm using my reolink cameras with hardware acceleration in Blue Iris. You need to use Direct VA2 for it to work.

My iframe rates are at a very stable 0.50. I believe this is done via having good wireless signal, setting your shutter speed correctly (mostly for night time so it doesn't go into auto low shutter, bright mode) and setting a frame rate that can handle your wireless setup.
The type of hardware acceleration chosen has nothing to do with the cameras but rather with your PC hardware supports.
 

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The type of hardware acceleration chosen has nothing to do with the cameras but rather with your PC hardware supports.
Oh ok, I only figured that because at least on my computer I can use Intel acceleration if I don't select reolink as the camera type, but it doesn't work when reolink is selected.

An update a while ago with DirectX VA2 seems to work on Reolink without issues, no idea why really.
 

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I had this happen with the latest BI update, and my Reolink RLC-420 cams. My solution was to physically press the reset button on each of the cameras. That fixed it for me.
 
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I had this happen with the latest BI update, and my Reolink RLC-420 cams. My solution was to physically press the reset button on each of the cameras. That fixed it for me.
I had this happen with the latest BI update, and my Reolink RLC-420 cams. My solution was to physically press the reset button on each of the cameras. That fixed it for me.
reset to factory settings? or just a reboot from the button?
 
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