Direct to Disk not working?

[alexh1000]

Hi,

I have 2 Reolink 4MP @ 30 fps cameras running on a dual core Haswell.
CPU utilization is 90%+ even when selecting direct to disk.
I can see video files are being stored as MP4.

The Reolink app stores files as .264 and is only about 20% CPU utilization.

I know I need to reduce the fps but shouldn't Blue Iris store files as .264?

Thanks

 

[fenderman]

Hi,

I have 2 Reolink 4MP @ 30 fps cameras running on a dual core Haswell.
CPU utilization is 90%+ even when selecting direct to disk.
I can see video files are being stored as MP4.

The Reolink app stores files as .264 and is only about 20% CPU utilization.

I know I need to reduce the fps but shouldn't Blue Iris store files as .264?

Thanks

Welcome to the forum.
Are you using the demo or paid version?
MP4 is just the container, they are stored as h.264 as that is what the camera sending. BVR is more efficent than mp4, so set it to BVR (blue iris dvr) and direct to disl.

 

[alexh1000]

Welcome to the forum.
Are you using the demo or paid version?
MP4 is just the container, they are stored as h.264 as that is what the camera sending. BVR is more efficent than mp4, so set it to BVR (blue iris dvr) and direct to disl.

Demo version.
By reducing frame rate to 10 fps CPU utilization is 60%. Seems I have to do that with the camera app.

Thanks

 

[fenderman]

Demo version.
By reducing frame rate to 10 fps CPU utilization is 60%. Seems I have to do that with the camera app.

Thanks

Yes you need to reduce fps in the camera interface. Direct to disk does not fully work in the demo. You will see a cpu reduction on the full version.

 

[nejakejnick]

I have 10 cameras, in total 3MP@85fps, 1MP@5fps; doing 3000 kB/s according to BI, everything recording, motion detection on 6 cams.
It takes on average 110% CPU time when minimized on i5-4590@3.3-3.7GHz ~ 28% cpu usage in task manager. 130% CPU time when using the demo version ~ 32.5% cpu usage.

mine: 3*85+1*5=260 MPfps = 130% CPU time
yours: 2*4*10=80 MPfps = 120% CPU time

Your CPU seems to be 3x slower than mine, so if you have 2.2-2.5GHz (or perhaps quite a bit faster Celeron or Pentium) dual core, than everything works as expected. Anyways, the full version would probably take 50% (at best 40%) instead of 60%.