Have you tried running the System with Raid 1 turned off to see how it behaves?
no, i have not, i will temporarily change my storage folders to the gen4 NVME drive and will update with results. this would be a real bummer as SSDs are not my preferred tool for this job for various reasons.
Make sure your NIC is not somehow running at 10/100.....It's happened in here before.
confirmed, GbE
I hope he's not running it in eval version.
i bought the full version and have the same issues.
Just for an example.....I put 2 of my 5442-z4 bullets on max frame rate 30 and max Bits per second 8192.
this example is consistent with my performance and i notice the dropped frames on both of your examples. inb4 'hollywood framerates/you don't need it' etc etc. again just wanna make it abundantly clear here that my priority is to configure my setup such that 4k30 streams and records smoothly FIRST, then back off of that for storage optimizations, lighting and image capture quality, etc. otherwise i feel like i'm polishing a turd.
the good stuff:
in additional testing, I viewed the RTSP stream direct from camera's IP address (NOT the BI server) and the stream is EXTREMELY SMOOTH. this was at 4k30, 12288kbps, H264. this confirms that the camera is capable of running 4k30 at a consistent framerate (and high bitrate!) and the camera is NOT hardware limited. i believe this also confirms that there is not a network issue. however, once the stream touches BI, performance decreases. based on this result i consider it unnecessary to record direct to local storage on the camera for testing. if i have missed something where this is still advisable, despite the RTSP stream being smooth, please elaborate on why and i'll do the test.
after seeing the RTSP stream's performance, i've determined that the perceived performance 'improvements' gained in response to previously adjusting framerate, bitrate, and making Windows Security exceptions were marginal AT BEST and most likely a big dose of Copium for me. in other words, the RTSP stream is night and day difference.
notably, viewing the BI Web Server stream via UI3 on Windows (two machines, tried firefox, chrome, edge) and iOS (two devices, different low-bandwidth streaming profiles) or in the application itself, include wildly fluctuating framerates (suggesting dropped frames). the average is probably 20, but it will swing moment to moment typically between 17 and 23 FPS. the stuttering associated with these fluctuations is also present in the recorded raw footage.
@Flintstone61 and others, thanks for the suggestions and for reading along. my next step is to try storing direct to ssd, however i'm not sure this would explain the frame drops seen while streaming in UI3 or in BI directly.
anyone have any other suggestions?
