H265 cameras on an i7 4770 Haswell CPU?

[gomango]

Could anybody tell me if it is possible to run Blue Iris 5 with H265 cameras on an older i7 4770 (Haswell generation) processor which only does H264 quicksync and H265 using the CPU? Or is it only possible using a Skylake or later CPU with H265 Quicksync support?
I have four HIK Vision cameras that can output H265 which should save disk space if the CPU can handle it and I can get an old PC with the 4770 CPU for next to nothing.

Thanks for your help!

 

[SouthernYankee]

I have a intel 4790 I can run h265. Just do not use hardware acceleration for the camera bi.

 

[gomango]

Thanks for your help SouthernYankee. From your signature, it looks like you have 4 H265 cameras and 10 H264 cameras - that's impressive! Do you use hardware acceleration for the H264 cameras but not the H265 cameras? Can I please ask, do you use motion detection and what is your average CPU utilization like? Thanks again!

 

[SouthernYankee]

I have most of my cameras set back to h264 and use hardware acceleration. It takes more bandwidth and more storage space with h264, but for me it is a good trade off. Disk space is cheap. I have two cameras set to h265 at this time, no hardware acceleration. I have just started setting up sub streams for motion detection.

 

[wittaj]

I have found that H264 seems to be more stable and probably just my imagination LOL, but it seems to be a better image. I have been slowly moving back to H264.

 

[gomango]

Thanks Southern Yankee and wittaj. It seems H264 is still the standard, most reliable way to go for BI. It would be great if using cameras in H265 mode worked as well as in H264 because then we would have the best of all worlds and would be able to make the most use of the storage space we have!

Southern Yankee, with 2 cameras set to H265 and the remainder using H264, is CPU usage high on the i7 4790?

 

[SouthernYankee]

my CPU is between 20% and 30%. Nothing major.

 

[gomango]

Thanks again Southern Yankee. With your help I'm now confident to pick up the i7 4770 PC - even if CPU usage is 10% higher than yours as the 4770 is a slower processor, that should be OK. I have fewer cameras but they're 4-5 MP so it should balance out overall.