Such a lot of great feedback! One thing not to lose sight of is that although I bought this PC 3 or 4 years ago to be BI capable, it‘s also used by my wife and other stuff so the point of this thread is to make the right choices and do the right things when buying my new BI PC Xmas present. All this good advice is definitely pushing me in the right direction, helping me to get a new slick and smooth running PC for BI without completely zeroing out the bank account.
Yes, I do see that the free space on the C drive seems to have shrunk a bit... It seems my train of thought was misguided. The reason I put the BI New files on it was my assumption that CPU time would be saved by creating new BVR files as quickly as possible on an SSD and that continuously building these files on a drive with no moving parts was a good thing to do. Then moving complete (4GB at the moment) files in one go to the HDD would wear it out less quickly. Was I wrong? Also, if complete BVR files are moved, does this mean that this cluster size thing doesn’t apply? My knowledge is very superficial to say the least.
The AMD radeon GPU was a standard fitment in this PC. I have no idea how to use it but can’t see why I would want to.
All the cameras are wired and I think the no signals are merely me messing about with the NIC camera connections etc. I will reset to make sure more don’t occur.
I record 24/7 which is why I started out worrying about the 2GB limit (solved, thanks) . Skipping (or perhaps delayed frames) does occur on the console.
In all the many tests that I have ever done, for a given bit rate, the video quality always suffers when they are all iframes. Likewise when using VBR instead of CBR with the newest 5442 cameras.
Yes, I do see that the free space on the C drive seems to have shrunk a bit... It seems my train of thought was misguided. The reason I put the BI New files on it was my assumption that CPU time would be saved by creating new BVR files as quickly as possible on an SSD and that continuously building these files on a drive with no moving parts was a good thing to do. Then moving complete (4GB at the moment) files in one go to the HDD would wear it out less quickly. Was I wrong? Also, if complete BVR files are moved, does this mean that this cluster size thing doesn’t apply? My knowledge is very superficial to say the least.
The AMD radeon GPU was a standard fitment in this PC. I have no idea how to use it but can’t see why I would want to.
All the cameras are wired and I think the no signals are merely me messing about with the NIC camera connections etc. I will reset to make sure more don’t occur.
I record 24/7 which is why I started out worrying about the 2GB limit (solved, thanks) . Skipping (or perhaps delayed frames) does occur on the console.
In all the many tests that I have ever done, for a given bit rate, the video quality always suffers when they are all iframes. Likewise when using VBR instead of CBR with the newest 5442 cameras.