Light ideas

[harleyl7]

What are your cam settings for that one?

Should be much more clear (obviously). That kind of looks like a substream or digitally zoomed.

I will have to double check the settings and do a side by side. Update firmware and such. It definitely does look like a substream, but I did disable that.

 

[harleyl7]

Top picture is the driveway

This one is the front porch. I swore I had this set to VBR and 15/15 on frame rate and iframe.

 

[MikeLud1]

I would drop the camera some more. Also are you looking at the image directly through the camera GUI.

 

[Mike A.]

Yeah, as sebastian said re bitrate, double check the video settings in the cam again and the stream strings in BI. Something's not right there.

Good that you have another to compare settings against.

 

[harleyl7]

I would drop the camera some more. Also are you looking at the image directly through the camera GUI.

View attachment 134790

Thanks for the line. I will have to do that when I get home. I'm pulling from ui3, but it looks the same on the image preview on the cam ui.

 

[MikeLud1]

Top picture is the drivewayView attachment 134791

This one is the front porch. I swore I had this set to VBR and 15/15 on frame rate and iframe.
View attachment 134792

Try the below settings

 

[Mike A.]

Top picture is the driveway

This one is the front porch. I swore I had this set to VBR and 15/15 on frame rate and iframe.

Bitrates are very low for both. Bump that up to 6192 (if not higher).

Unless you have some reason to do otherwise, try this:
H.264 or H.264H
CBR (as the other cam)
8192
15 or 30 for both

Edit: Yeah, copy Mike's. That's the same as how I typically set up the main stream for my 5442s too.

 

[sebastiantombs]

First, ditch H265 and H264+. Set them to H264.

If they're 4MP cameras the minimum bit rate for the main stream should be 8192. If they're 2MP cameras, 4096 for the main stream. I run my 4MP cameras at 10240 and my 2MP at 5120, all on H264. Provides crisp, clean video.

 

[anotherone]

This has been a really informative discussion with a ton of information.
Thanks!!

 

[harleyl7]

I have learned a lot and I'm saving this for my knowledge later on haha. Got good at installing cameras in tough spots but now I'm learning how to fine tune them in. Also should order a bigger HDD lol

 

[harleyl7]

First, ditch H265 and H264+. Set them to H264.

If they're 4MP cameras the minimum bit rate for the main stream should be 8192. If they're 2MP cameras, 4096 for the main stream. I run my 4MP cameras at 10240 and my 2MP at 5120, all on H264. Provides crisp, clean video.

Awesome, thank you. Both those front ones are 4MP. I'll be saving these numbers for my installs.

 

[sebastiantombs]

You can bump the bit rate up on the sub streams as well. I use 2048 with D1. Minor disk space impact but actually very little considering the visual improvement, at least to me.

 

[harleyl7]

You can bump the bit rate up on the sub streams as well. I use 2048 with D1. Minor disk space impact but actually very little considering the visual improvement, at least to me.

I haven't really had the need for substream yet. But at 10240 I might have to because in my office with crap signal, the camera buffers too much lol which is fine.

 

[sebastiantombs]

You need a CAT cable, not WiFi, to connect to a BI server. Although it could work, I guess. My system shows around 300Mb/ps on the NIC for all the cameras and a decent WiFi connection should be able to handle that but it will certainly degrade WiFi for anything else and all bets are off if someone is streaming movies or gaming on the same WiFi.

 

[harleyl7]

You need a CAT cable, not WiFi, to connect to a BI server. Although it could work, I guess. My system shows around 300Mb/ps on the NIC for all the cameras and a decent WiFi connection should be able to handle that but it will certainly degrade WiFi for anything else and all bets are off if someone is streaming movies or gaming on the same WiFi.

Oh no I meant like me streaming from my phone via VPN into my home network at 10240 bit rate.
At home and I'm on my network it loads perfectly fine.

 

[looney2ns]

Thanks for the line. I will have to do that when I get home. I'm pulling from ui3, but it looks the same on the image preview on the cam ui.

The stream bitrate is extremely low. Raise it to at least 8192 or better yet, 10240

 

[sebastiantombs]

The only time you're streaming the full bit rate of a camera in UI3 is if you single frame the camera. If you have a bunch of cameras in the main view there isn't, or shouldn't be, a significant difference between the two in terms of bit rate. Maybe @bp2008 can shed some light here.