Blue Iris on a Unraid VM (Playback lag)

[hojuguy]

I am really new to BI and Unraid VMs.

When viewing BI via the VNC VM viewer, live video and recorded videos are really hard to watch as they are super laggy and choppy. If I download these files to my laptop, they are smooth and great.

How do people usually set up running BI on a Win11 VM within Unraid? Is there a way to improve viewing? My PC specs should be high enough with a Intel i7-8700K CPU with 32gb of RAM.

Many thanks.

 

[TonyR]

When viewing BI via the VNC VM viewer, live video and recorded videos are really hard to watch as they are super laggy and choppy. If I download these files to my laptop, they are smooth and great.

Is this when viewing the BI console or viewing with UI3?

 

[hojuguy]

This is when viewing directly on my BI wired system. I haven't set up any remote viewing yet but something I want to achieve at some stage.

 

[Bruce_H]

Just to clarify this is running on a Virtual Machine and you are viewing the BI desktop using a virtualized console window, is that correct! Have you tired looking at the videos using a web browser from a real PC using the UI3 web page?

 

[hojuguy]

Hi Bruce,

Correct, I've only been looking at the BI console via VMC. Would accessing it via UI3 a better recommendation?

 

[Bruce_H]

I am not sure, it is possible that the virtualized video driver may be causing your issue. If UI3 is good then it would potentially eliminate the playback section in BI. I recall reading about some issues with BI when running in a virtualized environment, don't remember the details! Is there anyway to access BI using some sort of remote desktop software and bypass the VMC console, I know nothing about UnRaid VM's; I have used VMWare Workstation but never to run a BI installation!