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Young grasshopper
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Hi Just a quick intro. *not*
Brand new to Blue Iris trying it out for a client.
I work mostly in Michigan (USA) designing installing and maintaining information and communications systems for small to medium businesses around here and I typically travel for projects on average 3-4 times per year for those clients who are moving or expanding their networks & systems beyond or out of the local area here.
Been in this business since 1995 and absolutely love it and also find myself doing a lot of it just for fun
in my free time away from work as well.
I have been very successfully working with Reolink IP cameras for the past 2 years and have become a huge fan and implementer of them.
I've known about Blue Iris for several years but this is my first request to install it for a client.
Been testing it myself and found it extremely easy to setup & use.
It has many advanced capabilities as well that I will get more familiar with over time.
One thing that really caught me off guard was how much CPU utilization it is taking to continuously record only 3 Reolink cameras.
This was my out of the box experience is that on a high end Skylake system i5 or i7 I am immediately maxing out CPU with only 3 cameras which are sending out HD: 2560*1440 @30FPS.
With a high end Computer I was expecting to handle continuously recording 7 or 8 streams.
And so was the client.
I realize these are some heavy demands and non conventional "security camera" type settings and resolutions but still I was hoping to handle 8 streams at full resolution and frame rate.
I was also expecting Nvidia GPU offloading for video decoding as it is recorded and have noticed that
Installed GPU and latest drivers make absolutely no difference in the performance in my tests.
Other than backing off frame rates and limiting resolution to lower levels, I was hoping to get some answers and good pointers here on the forum.
I have been contacting Blue Iris Support and have not obtained any solid answers from them yet.
I have also been sending them multiple questions and they only reply to my first question in the email.
It seems as though they want me to limit my support emails to one question and you have to wait 24-48 hours for each response.
Their last response suggested to come here to the forum and ask any hardware related questions here o to figure out what works the best for what I am trying to do.
Sorry for the long "tech introduction".
And I'm pretty sure I'll need to move my questions to another section of the forum but I wanted to
let people know why I joined initially and what I'm sorta looking for.
I plan to stick around for a long time and also be helpful here as I learn more.
And get a good handle on what hardware can handle this really well.
Thanks!
Steve
Brand new to Blue Iris trying it out for a client.
I work mostly in Michigan (USA) designing installing and maintaining information and communications systems for small to medium businesses around here and I typically travel for projects on average 3-4 times per year for those clients who are moving or expanding their networks & systems beyond or out of the local area here.
Been in this business since 1995 and absolutely love it and also find myself doing a lot of it just for fun
in my free time away from work as well.
I have been very successfully working with Reolink IP cameras for the past 2 years and have become a huge fan and implementer of them.
I've known about Blue Iris for several years but this is my first request to install it for a client.
Been testing it myself and found it extremely easy to setup & use.
It has many advanced capabilities as well that I will get more familiar with over time.
One thing that really caught me off guard was how much CPU utilization it is taking to continuously record only 3 Reolink cameras.
This was my out of the box experience is that on a high end Skylake system i5 or i7 I am immediately maxing out CPU with only 3 cameras which are sending out HD: 2560*1440 @30FPS.
With a high end Computer I was expecting to handle continuously recording 7 or 8 streams.
And so was the client.
I realize these are some heavy demands and non conventional "security camera" type settings and resolutions but still I was hoping to handle 8 streams at full resolution and frame rate.
I was also expecting Nvidia GPU offloading for video decoding as it is recorded and have noticed that
Installed GPU and latest drivers make absolutely no difference in the performance in my tests.
Other than backing off frame rates and limiting resolution to lower levels, I was hoping to get some answers and good pointers here on the forum.
I have been contacting Blue Iris Support and have not obtained any solid answers from them yet.
I have also been sending them multiple questions and they only reply to my first question in the email.
It seems as though they want me to limit my support emails to one question and you have to wait 24-48 hours for each response.
Their last response suggested to come here to the forum and ask any hardware related questions here o to figure out what works the best for what I am trying to do.
Sorry for the long "tech introduction".
And I'm pretty sure I'll need to move my questions to another section of the forum but I wanted to
let people know why I joined initially and what I'm sorta looking for.
I plan to stick around for a long time and also be helpful here as I learn more.
And get a good handle on what hardware can handle this really well.
Thanks!
Steve
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