Reducing CPU load

Radjin
Radjin
edited July 2015 in SecuritySpy
It the SS information it explained ways to reduce CPU load, thanks for that. Are there other ways to offload duties to the camera? I noticed in my Dahua 4300s There is an option to trigger on motion and even take a jpeg. Would this further reduce work SS has to do?

Radjin~

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  • Ben
    Ben
    Hi Radjin,

    The biggest processor-intensive task in the whole system is encoding the video (in this case to H.264 format). So as long as you have followed the instructions in the user manual under Optimising Performance in order to get SecuritySpy to save this video directly to disk without further compression done in software, then you will have offloaded a signifncant amount of work from the Mac to the camera.

    Apart from general stuff like reducing the frame rate of the camera's video, there is little else you can do to recuce CPU usage associated with processing the incoming video. Specifically there is currently no way for SecuritySpy to use the camera's motion-detection features to trigger SecuritySpy's own recording (there are so many makes and models of camera and most do not support such a mechanism, so it doesn't seem possible for us to implement this).

    Hope this helps.
  • Radjin
    Radjin
    Yes, thanks, it helps a lot.

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