Performance and general questions

[Engineer in Cleve]

I have the same problem, where there are 2-10 second gaps in my recorded video. I'm running IB4 on an i5 Core Win7. The CPU typically runs at about 50% usage. I read the entire thread and it appears that the solution was a more powerful PC, correct?

 

[fenderman]

I have the same problem, where there are 2-10 second gaps in my recorded video. I'm running IB4 on an i5 Core Win7. The CPU typically runs at about 50% usage. I read the entire thread and it appears that the solution was a more powerful PC, correct?

Not likely to be cpu related if you are normally running 50%..are you recording continuously? where is the gap - beginning end middle?

 

[Engineer in Cleve]

I'm only recording on motion, but some of the cameras are pretty busy. When new motion is detected, it records immediately, but freezes about 2 seconds in. The gap in the recording is typically 2-3 seconds, then the recording is continuous, with no gaps.

 

[bp2008]

Hard to say what is causing that. Try setting your hard drive you record on to never sleep, in windows power settings. This isn't likely to make a bit of difference but it is actually good for your drives anyway if it will keep them from starting and stopping a lot.

What are your recording file format settings? Direct to disk or re-encode? Bvr, mp4? Xvid?

Are any of the cameras wireless?

 

[gth]

Any chance the hard drive had spun down into a dormant state? The time frame looks similar to that for a hard drive to spin up. Plenty of windows subsystems block on that and get nowhere until everything recovers a few seconds later.

Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings - "changed advanced power settings" - "hard disk", etc.

 

[Engineer in Cleve]

I took a look at my Resource Monitor and noticed that the CPU usage sometimes jumped to 100% and McAfee was taking 25%. I removed McAfee and everything is now working perfectly. This PC is not connected to the internet, so virus protection is unnecessary. Many thanks for helping me get to this solution.