Continuous record low quality with cloned camera

venture996

Getting the hang of it
Oct 1, 2014
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I have a HAD camera by my pool that I record with motion. I've also setup a clone of the Cabrera to record continuously. However it seems to consume a ton of disk space with continuous record. Is there a way to reduce the file size by changing storage settings? It's fine if the video quality drops.
 
Technically yes, if you didn't use direct to disk and you modified the re-encode settings to use a low bit rate, then you'd have continuous recording with lower quality and smaller file size. But as this requires Blue Iris to re-encode video, it uses a lot of CPU time. It may be a better option to change the continuous recording clone to pull a sub stream from the camera instead, so it can record direct to disk without the additional cost of re-encoding.
 
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