Is this quality from a IPC-4239T-ASE correct?

[wex65]

I setup an initial camera for my wife who is adding it to her website as a 7*24 stream so that her clients can watch her dwarf nigerian goats and kids. I have it streaming for now to YouTube
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but wanted to know whether this video quality is typical or whether there are settings I can tweak to improve the clarity. The camera isn't mounted in its final position but it is within a foot or so of the mount location and will be pointing a little lower. I suspect the mix of indoors and outdoors with different light levels isn't helping.

The camera is a Dahua IPC-HFW4239T-ASE

I should add that the video does look better on the PC where I am running OBS so maybe the limiting factor here is YouTube?

Any feedback appreciated.

 

[bigredfish]

Coincidently I recently setup some cameras for a friend who has goats. Similar problem in that the contrast between the bright sunshine and the relative darkness of the stall make it tough. My back porch/pool deck is similar.

Recommend playing with WDR to even things out.

 

[IAmATeaf]

Case of playing around, I’d try pointing it down and more to the right to get rid of the window to the left.

 

[wex65]

Case of playing around, I’d try pointing it down and more to the right to get rid of the window to the left.

Coincidently I recently setup some cameras for a friend who has goats. Similar problem in that the contrast between the bright sunshine and the relative darkness of the stall make it tough. My back porch/pool deck is similar.

Recommend playing with WDR to even things out.

Thanks guys, I think I will look into moving the camera to the corner in the top left of th current view and point it backwards into the building to remove the outside glare.

 

[bigredfish]

You're going to need to use WDR. Both of these scenes look the same as yours without WDR

*Change YT player to 1080p

 

[bigredfish]

Are you recording at a real low bitrate? Looks like it...... image will be MUCH better at a higher rate.

 

[wex65]

Are you recording at a real low bitrate? Looks like it...... image will be MUCH better at a higher rate.

I played around with the bitrate in OBS ramping it from 1500-6000 but the final result at YoutTube remains the same. Looks crisp in OBS but fuzzy on YT. I will explore to see if YT has a way to improve. My guess is they are compressing a LOT, causing degradation in the video.

 

[bigredfish]

Mine above were recorded at 8192 and uploaded to YT.
YT does compress but not that much

 

[wex65]

Mine above were recorded at 8192 and uploaded to YT.
YT does compress but not that much

Thanks, I will play around and see what I can find out. I will report back in any improvements in the event it helps other newbies like myself.