Hi,
I’m using Netcam for about 2 years now but in the last couple of months I’m experiencing some issues. I switched to Netcam for the good performance and motion detection and was very happy with it. It uses about 20% of my CPU to proces two 1280x1024 h264 15 fps streams from my cabled TP-Link camera’s.
A couple of months ago, unfortunately I’m not sure when/what changed that time, the recordings started to be laggy/choppy. At first I didn’t pay to much attention to it. I suspected the camera’s, as they are not very high quality. Today I started to research some more, but didn’t find the cause to be the camera’s. If I look at the recording, I can see the first 2 seconds are good, and then the frame rate drops to, let’s say, 1 or 2 fps. In the overlay it still shows 15 fps. Now this makes me suspect something like encoding performance. So I monitored the CPU usage during a recording of two camera’s at once: It goed up to 60 - 70%, which should be sufficient.
I tried the different encoders: internal, vlc, hardware. (restarting the Netcam service in between the changes) vlc seems a little better, but still not like it should be. Then I installed Netcam 2 (beta) and tried the multi thread solution: This is a HUGE improvement! But on the downside: CPU peaks to 100% and activated my “turbo mode” on the i5 CPU. Then I also tried to use Intel QuickSync as an encoder, similar performance with multi thread disabled, similar performance with mt enabled.
Does anyone have an idea what is the problem here? (What interests me the most, is that it used to work very smooth in the past!)
One thing I didn’t try: Enable background rendering/encoding, as it is removed in 2.0. If it is worth a try, I don’t mind un/reinstalling the last final release.
Specs:
Core i5 3570K 3,4Ghz 4-core
16GB DDR3
250GB SSD
Windows 10 Pro x64 (latest release)
Any help appreciated!!