Substreams and Foscam R2

[TimG]

Hi guys,
I managed to get substreams working well with my Dahua and Ertech cams, but the Foscam R2 won't play.
As soon as I add the details for the substream, the main stream stops in BI5. I must admit I am trying to guess the parameters.
This cam doesnt have Videomain or videosub parameters, just a slash iirc.
Anybody know what to do here ?

[Thixotropic]

After a bit of googling, I found some info that might apply....hopefully one or more of these will work.

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https://www.foscam.com/faqs/view.html?id=128
RTSP examples entered on a URL search bar:

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rtsp://username:pwd@IP:port/videoMain
rtsp://username:pwd@IP:port /videoSub
rtsp://username:pwd@IP:port /audio

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This page has a list of possible URLs:
https://www.ispyconnect.com/man.aspx?n=foscam

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From http://foscam.us/forum/how-to-fetch-sna ... t4328.html

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http://ip address:port/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=setSubStreamFormat&format=1&usr=admin&pwd= 

[TimG]

Thanks for looking, but I had tried those and got nowhere

But, it made me think. I don't have videoMain. Hmm...

BI5 Camera model is set to the same type other people here have used (See thread https://blueirissoftware.com/Forum/view ... f=4&t=1488 ). Are there any other types for the R2 ? The answer is yes. There is a rtsp version as well = C1/C2/R2/R4/F198xx/99xx RTSP

When I changed to that, the video main stream changed from "Main Stream /" to "Main Stream /videoMain". Looks familiar. I set the substream to "/videoSub" and it is now working

[TimG]

Can somebody else try this with an R2 ? I don't know if my eyesight is failing, or if this is showing the low res video even in recordings. The main and sub settings look OK, and it does show that I have a Main stream of 2.1MP with a sub stream of 0.9MP.

Not quite happy yet !

[MikeBwca]

TimG...

Could you post a screen shor of your video config screen?

Also, the sub stream will show a much lower bitrate. I probably won't use the sub stream, since it's 640/480. I'd much rather see what's going on with hthe mainstream. But, it would be nice to get it going for future reference.

[TimG]

Hi MikeBwca,

Settings are now:



and this gives the following main and sub bitrates:



And cpu loading is sooo low

[Thixotropic]

And cpu loading is sooo low

(Crowd): "How low is it, Tim?!"

[TimG]

Oh you just had to ask !

And I'm happy to answer

When I moved BI5 from the 8 core 4Ghz AMD 8350 pc to the 4 core 3Ghz intel i5-3330 pc, cpu usage increased to around 18% for BI5. Now using substreams on all of my HD cams on the same intel pc, BI5 cpu usage is around 7%.

I think this would make a massive difference on a system with multiple high resolution cameras, and it is another good tool to reduce cpu loading.

[MikeBwca]

Thanks TimG.

Tried those settings. Still having the issue. I think this is a lost cause.

[Matts1984]

Most critically, we now know that Tim's password is 7 'dots' or an 'Alt + 7'