Ut. It kept resetting the "Anamorphic" setting back on for my Hikvision and Dahua cameras. The ReoLinks worked fine.
To get full resolution out of UI3, I had to totally disable the substream on the Video->Network->Configure settings (where the IP / camera type are set) on my Hikvision and Dahua cameras so that Blue Iris only knows about the main stream, not the substream. That works fine, doesn't even increase the CPU usage even though I believe Blue Iris is now having to look at full resolution frames on those cameras to do motion detection, but (shrug). Dunno what to do given that this appears to be a bug in Blue Iris's substream handling somewhere, at least where those two camera types are concerned. BTW, the Dahuas are set to generic ONVIF, the Hikvisions are old and are set to HIkvision DS-2CD/2TD RTSP. Anyhow, everything works when I disable substreams for those cameras in the Video->Network->Configure tab in BI.
Oh yes, I also noticed that a new update had been released and updated my Blue Iris to 5.9.9.17. It didn't make any difference.
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I would suggest turning off automatic updates, there has been occasions when a bad update has been released and many people have had problems, I only manually update when I have time to watch my system and react to any problems that may exist, often a problematic update is replaced the next day, but it may have already caused an issue with your system during that time. Food for thought, your choice!
I would suggest turning off automatic updates, there has been occasions when a bad update has been released and many people have had problems, I only manually update when I have time to watch my system and react to any problems that may exist, often a problematic update is replaced the next day, but it may have already caused an issue with your system during that time. Food for thought, your choice!
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I set the substream size on the cameras that allow it to 1080p, and the UI3 is also set to 1080p. The cameras send H.264 and set Direct to Wire when possible, and switching these cameras to Solo instantly gives me 1080p image on any display I use, at the full camera FPS.
Any camera that has a substream at a lower resolution than UI3 asks for, switches to the main stream when Solo. And, with the two Reolinks that I have, they send a mix of H.264/H.265 and can't be changed, so those start transcoding, and the FPS start going down.
Any camera that has a substream at a lower resolution than UI3 asks for, switches to the main stream when Solo. And, with the two Reolinks that I have, they send a mix of H.264/H.265 and can't be changed, so those start transcoding, and the FPS start going down.
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Except that's not what happened for me.PaulDaisy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 6:06 pm Any camera that has a substream at a lower resolution than UI3 asks for, switches to the main stream when Solo. And, with the two Reolinks that I have, they send a mix of H.264/H.265 and can't be changed, so those start transcoding, and the FPS start going down.
I have three kinds of camera: Dahua, Hikvision, and ReoLink.
All cameras are 4K cameras except for one of the Hikvisions (1520p) and the ReoLinks (which are "only" 1920p). My "monitor" is a big screen 4K television. I haven't done 1080p since ten years ago because with 4K cheap and readily available, why?
On UI3 the substream was *always* being displayed for the Hikvision and Dahua cameras. Always. Period. Regardless of whether I was watching the little squares or had clicked on a single camera to view it full screen. The only way I could make it display the 4K data stream from the camera was to disable the substream in Blue Iris on the Video page of the camera configuration. Note that this was *not* true of the local display, it behaved like you said, it switched to the main stream when Solo. But UI3 did not.
Finally, I have automatic updates disabled for Blue Iris. I updated only because I had an issue, *this* issue, in hopes it would resolve it since the update notes stated it had a UI3 update in it. It didn't.
I am still baffled as to why Blue Iris treats the ReoLinks different from how it treats the Hikvision and Dahua cameras. They're all set to OnVif except for one of the Hikvisions.
I'm not particularly concerned about frame rate. As long as I can sustain 8fps or so, I have sufficient frame rate for the purpose. These are security cameras, not make-a-video-for-TikTok cameras. I need a clear view of a burglar's face, not a method for critiquing his dance moves. I'm managing more than 8fps so I'm fine there. It's just baffling why I had to disable substreams in BI in order to make UI3 display full resolution when I went full screen on a camera via UI3.
Oh yes -- the video recorder is in the utility room that also serves as my machine room with my NAS and core switch in it. It has fans. It has big clicky spinny hard drives. It makes a lot of heat due to its nice fast processor. None of which I want anywhere near my office, which has a nice quiet low-power-use Mac Studio in it. So UI3 is important to me. Thus why I was baffled at why I couldn't get it to display my 4K video. Now I'm displaying it. Still baffled at why it wasn't working, but at least I have a workaround for whatever is broken, which is to just disable the substream in BI's Video tab for the cameras. That actually seems to have *reduced* the CPU use of the video recorder. It's now under 10% for 11 cameras. Intel Core I5-14400. You would think that scaling a 4K image for UI3 would in postage stamp mode would be expensive but it appears to be using the GPU for that, which is also under 10% usage. Huh. Go figure. I have to say that I am quite pleased with the CPU usage of Blue Iris once you tweak all the knobs well to e.g. record directly to disk with minimal processing. This is a quite efficient program.