Continuous record low quality with cloned camera

[venture996]

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.

 

[bp2008]

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.