- Dec 8, 2016
- 57
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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 drives 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 with questions about this.
Their last response suggested to come here to the forum and ask any hardware related questions here to figure out what works the best for what I am trying to do.
Current Test System:
ASUS Z170 Motherboard.
Intel Skylake i5 @4GHz. (also tried i7)
16GB RAM
OS and DB are on SSD.
Video recording and storage is on 3TB "purple" drive.
3 Reolink IP cameras (want to run 8).
Tried multiple video cards as well as built on Intel 530 Graphics. Same CPU usage.
2 Cameras full resolution 30FPS runs 50-70% CPU 3 Cameras rests around 90-95%% and peaks over 100%.
Disk usage on either drive is very low nowhere near 100% under 10%.
Thanks!
Steve
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 drives 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 with questions about this.
Their last response suggested to come here to the forum and ask any hardware related questions here to figure out what works the best for what I am trying to do.
Current Test System:
ASUS Z170 Motherboard.
Intel Skylake i5 @4GHz. (also tried i7)
16GB RAM
OS and DB are on SSD.
Video recording and storage is on 3TB "purple" drive.
3 Reolink IP cameras (want to run 8).
Tried multiple video cards as well as built on Intel 530 Graphics. Same CPU usage.
2 Cameras full resolution 30FPS runs 50-70% CPU 3 Cameras rests around 90-95%% and peaks over 100%.
Disk usage on either drive is very low nowhere near 100% under 10%.
Thanks!
Steve
