Broken camera or some setting?

[EricB]

In the last few days, I have started seeing my VT02311R-WP camera do something funky in the evenings just before it goes into night mode.

Parts of the image go into "flourescent" mode for lack of a better term.

Now today, it is doing it during the day. It is not all the time, but quite often. I am not seeing this with the 180 or 5442 cameras.

Quesion: Is this some setting I have messes is somewhere or is the camera bad?

Here is an example:



Thanks,

Eric

 

[wittaj]

Looks like a codec issue that BI is struggling with? Make sure just H264 or H265 without a plus or smart codec.

 

[EricB]

@wittaj Changes in the camera or in BI?

Thanks,

Eric

 

[looney2ns]

Change in the camera.

 

[EricB]

I looked at both and didn't see "plus" or "smart codec".

Here are my settings:

 

[wittaj]

Yeah looks like you are running plain H264.

Up the Receive Buffer in BI to 20MB.

And then try the ole reboot the camera and BI

 

[EricB]

Thanks, will do.

Funny thing is while I was looking though the settings again after posting my settings, I clicked the compensation mode by accident and changed it and the video was fixed, then I put it back, and it was still fixed.

 

[Mike A.]

That makes sense. Kind of looks like WDR or other compensation gone crazy.

 

[EricB]

@Mike A. Is there some reason that WDR compensation would go crazy, or is it just one of those software "things" that happens from time to time?

 

[Mike A.]

Not that I can think of in particular. Maybe whatever transition from day/night and/or something about the scene/brightness is confusing it. Do you have WDR on for both day and night? Maybe try turning that off as a test and see what it does.

 

[EricB]

That was what I accidentally changed, and then changed right back (without saving), and now it is working fine.

I set the Receive Buffer in BI to 20MB, so for now I'll just keep an eye on it, and chalk it up to software gremlins.