New user here, I have 2 Hikvision cameras streaming to NCS and I’m getting less than 5fps on each. I have previously used exactly the same server using another vendors product and have always received a good stream.
Server specs are:
Dual Xenon’s with 16 Logical Processors
112GB RAM
Windows Server 2016
Hi Terry and welcome to the forum.
We have a new license system based on how many FPS you want. So the more you pay the better FPS you get. Just kidding! I couldn´t resist!
With that hardware and server 2016 it should definitely be no problems with 2 cameras even if they are several MP.
-use only the NCS X Server.
-which version of NCS do you use?
-is it in the lower right corner you of the video you read the FPS?
-check the task manager how much cpu load you have and how much NCS use.
-make sure that for the client settings the FPS is set to high.
-which models are the cameras? Resolution is important.
-how do add them to NCS? with a template (network camera), onvif or custom url. If the two latter what is the URL?
Hi again,
The Hikvision are good cams, but they can be little bit tricky
The camera deliver h.264 and mjpeg with a variable or constant bitrate (vbr or cbr) to save bandwidth on the network. In a similar case the camera was default set to vbr so when nothing much happened in the camera view the bitrate was low. So go into the configuration of the camera and check this setting.
Hmmm, so the bitrate is set to constant, on both the sub stream and main stream. What I have noticed is that on the main stream with the higher resolution, I can only use h264, on the sub stream I can select either h264 or MPEG.
When I change the stream in net cam studio to the substream, the fps raises to 20fps which is pretty good, but the resolution is poor. Could this be the issue?
The higher resolution usually only use h.264 to have better compression and lower bandwidth.
If you connect only one camera what happens to FPS?
As usual there are different information about cams, but for this 3MP cam test with Custom URL,
Set stream type to RTSP_TCP
Address:
rtsp://user:pwd@ip:554//Streaming/Channels/1
or
rtsp://user:pwd@ip:554//Streaming/Channels/101
or
rtsp://user:pwd@ip:554/live.sdp
Ha ha, the only I have just now is to uninstall ncs and remove whsts in programdata-moonware and programfiles- netcamstudio to make a clean installation. Install again. This is very strange!
Try the same urls you have in netcam studio in VLC and compare the FPS.
Normally they should be very similar.
Maybe your “other” softwares were using different urls, in which case you need to figure them out to use the same ones in Netcam Studio and in VLC to compare with the ones we use.