Hey Hartj81 – I’m waiting to see what the response is to your question because I’m having the same type of issue. There is always a couple seconds where my recorded footage is frozen on a frame.
the logs always say Video Source Stopped due to inactivity,
happens almost every 20 mins,
yes exclusively with usb,
i tried another program which i do not like (ispy) just to see if the same issue would occur but it did not happen,
but since has been uninstalled in hopes i can get this to work, so i can purchase the full program,
i checked advanced power options to make sure hard disk was not going to sleep , im just at a loss as to why its going inactive and now recovery from it
When nobody is watching / viewing the camera or requesting frames (recording, motion detection) then the video sources are going to sleep in order to reduce the cpu usage. Then when you again switch to this camera, it’s waking it up / reconnecting. This can take 1-2 seconds during which it’s like frozen.
If the source is recording, somebody is watching it remotely then it won’t happen but it’s only to spare resources when sources are not in use.
If motion detection is activated then it shouldn’t.
There was such an issue in the past. For sure in 1.2.0 it was fixed, now I have doubt if it was already the case in 1.1.9 or not.
Please download the latest 1.2.5 and check if it still happens.
Maybe there is still something specific to usb sources. If needed I will perform some additional testings if you report that it’s still not behaving correctly after upgrading.