Genius. That's exactly what I did. TY.
Blue Iris UI3
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Actually... So I went under global settings and unticked the "direct to wire" for both stream 0 and 1. I also went into the record setting of a given camera (w/o the overlay in live) and set the recording 0 and 1 to also avoid direct to wire. I'm still not getting the overlay. Is there somewhere else that I'm missing?
ETA: NM, I found it. Leaving it here so others as challenged as I am know what to do. I edited the encoder profile in UI3 to go from "inheret" to "yes". I just put it back and i"M all squared away. TY again.
ETA: NM, I found it. Leaving it here so others as challenged as I am know what to do. I edited the encoder profile in UI3 to go from "inheret" to "yes". I just put it back and i"M all squared away. TY again.
The recording profiles in camera settings only have an effect if you aren't using direct-to-disc recording.
@bp2008 Oh, yes I see it there. I assumed it was not available because the keyboard shortcut did not work, at least not on my Macbook. (BTW, keyboard shortcut for reverse playback does work during clip playback)
Follow-up question: any chance to get keyboard shortcut to work for this scenario or is there a blocker in this situation?
The hotkey not working was an oversight on my part. Early in the development I wasn't sure if BI would support reverse playback on the timeline, so I had coded the hotkey to take no action in that case. Forgot to change it. Will be fixed in the UI3-222 release.
That will be available in UI3-222 also.
UI3-222 is now released with the above changes. As usual, this should be shipped with the next BI update, or you can manually update UI3 according to instructions here.
@bp2008 Very nice!
BTW, in your screenshot below, the word "canceled" has 1 L, versus 2 LL's in left-side panel drop down.
BTW, in your screenshot below, the word "canceled" has 1 L, versus 2 LL's in left-side panel drop down.
looney2ns
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I think sometimes he must wander around the house with a keyboard strapped to his arm, ready to code at any moment!Dang, what took you so long, Brian? Getting a little slow as we age, eh?
@bp2008 No rush. Another observation: during timeline playback, I can't seem to get audio to work. It's always muted as highlighted in this screenshot.
Even when I am only doing timeline playback for 1 camera, and not a group.
If I do playback via clips tab, audio works as expected.
Is this a known limitation with timeline? If so, is there plans to get audio to work?
Even when I am only doing timeline playback for 1 camera, and not a group.
If I do playback via clips tab, audio works as expected.
Is this a known limitation with timeline? If so, is there plans to get audio to work?
Yes, it is known. Blue Iris simply can't play audio on the timeline yet. If this matters to you, please request this capability from Blue Iris support so Ken will increase its priority.
I can offer some thoughts.
First, Blue Iris doesn't offer any way for UI3 to change the size of the cameras in the group stream (and even if they did, I think wouldn't use it due to the complexity).
Second, resizing a camera would also move and resize the other cameras which would make it very disorienting. I don't think this would be a nice feature to use.
I'm still getting horrible playback on my PC and phone unless I move the resolution down to something less than 720p. Looking at the stats for nerds, do that reveal any clues? I get the same playback on the BI mobile app on my higher-end android phone as well - so I'm not sure whether it's server or client (or both). The CPU on the client and server never get saturated and I'm able to speed test to my full GB up/down speed from my ISP while doing these tests, so I seem to have plenty of LAN bandwidth.
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What are the problems specifically? The low frame rate?
What file type are your clips? In my experience, Blue Iris is really bad at MP4 playback so you should always use BVR.
What CPU are you running on the server?
Which H.264 player are you using in UI3? If it is the JavaScript player, then it can be a limiting factor on slow devices.