Blue Iris Record Settings Help

[dsabot]

Hi! I have 16 cameras that we do Continuous recording on. I need some help with a few settings to ensure I am utilizing file space correctly.

Currently, each camera has the following:



And my general settings are:





I want to store my clips on my hard drive for 30 days, then delete. With this scenario, I have only 2 days being stored at a time.

 

[sebastiantombs]

First, I'd change combine and cut to one hour for simplicity.

The next thing is it is not necessary to move from New to Stored. Everything can write to the New directory and stay there. The clips appear in descending order by date and time no matter where they may be located. Don't set a time limit, just use a size limit on the New directory that will leave about 10% "headroom" for BI to handle overlaps.

The biggest key is the frame rate and resolution of the cameras along with how many cameras are recording. That will determine file sizes and the actual capacity, in days, of the drive. I have 15 cameras recording continuously with a 4TB drive and get a week of available footage which gives me more than enough time to review and archive anything of importance.

 

[SouthernYankee]

My Standard allocation post.

1) Do not use time (limit clip age)to determine when BI video files are moved or deleted, only use space. Using time wastes disk space.
2) If New and stored are on the same disk drive do not used stored, set the stored size to zero, set the new folder to delete, not move. All it does is waste CPU time and increase the number of disk writes. You can leave the stored folder on the drive just do not use it.
3) Never allocate over 90% of the total disk drive to BI.
4) if using continuous recording on the BI camera settings, record tab, set the combine and cut video to 1 hour or 3 GB. Really big files are difficult to transfer and read.
5) it is recommend to NOT store video on an SSD (the C: drive).
6) Do not run the disk defragmenter on the video storage disk drives.
7) Do not run virus scanners on BI folders
8) an alternate way to allocate space on multiple drives is to assign different cameras to different drives, so there is no file movement between new and stored.
9) Never use an External USB drive for the NEW folder. Never use a network drive for the NEW folder. The New folder must be on an internal drive.


Advanced storage:
If you are using a complete disk for large video file storage (BVR) continuous recording, I recommend formatting the disk, with a windows cluster size of 1024K (1 Megabyte). This is a increase from the 4K default. This will reduce the physical number of disk write, decrease the disk fragmentation, speed up access.

Hint:
On the Blue iris status (lighting bolt graph) clip storage tab, if there is any red on the bars you have a allocation problem. If there is no Green, you have no free space, this is bad.