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no image on preview, and high quality image in single camera view mode and archive recordings)įrom Xeoma version 19.11.26 there’s an option ‘Decode only keyframes’ available in the ‘Universal camera’ module’s settings. Also, you can tick ‘Use H.264/H.265/H.265+ stream (from Archive) in single camera view mode’ in the ‘Universal camera’ module’s settings to see archive URL in single camera view module (i.e. You will know that the recording is on and going well by this sign:Įven without lower quality stream shown in preview, you will get a high quality stream stored to the archive, and CPU load will be significantly lower. If you don’t know the URL for a stream of lower quality, or simply don’t want to use it (when real-time view is not necessary), you can leave this field blank: You will see a lower quality picture in preview window.īut you will get maximum quality footage stored into the archive at the same time: In regular “Full URL address for IP camera” you can specify a jpeg/mjpeg/rtsp URL for lower quality stream (for preview and detectors’ work): To establish direct saving into archive, paste the URL for hi res RTSP (h264) stream into “Full URL address of the RTSP (h264) video stream…” field. You will see there that the regular URL to work with the camera is given in “Full URL for IP camera” field:

To do that, please go to the camera’s settings in Xeoma. In both these cases we recommend to make use of the camera’s dual streaming and try the direct storing into archive without re-decoding. You can lower it in the camera’s admin page in browser, Xeoma will pick up the changes. Tip: you can see a distorted image on preview in Xeoma if the bitrate for preview URL is too high. If the machine is slow or you have many high resolution rtsp cameras, it may cause high CPU usage resulting in image distortions like this: But as often as not, the priority is not the ability to view cameras real-time but to store high quality into the archive: If you are using h264 (rtsp) camera or cameras, you might well be receiving many Mpix image from your camera and seeing it in the preview window. If you use an h264 (rtsp) camera and would like to reduce CPU usage, you are welcome to try Xeoma’s option to store high resolution video streams directly into archive, without re-decoding the streams. Read also: All methods of reducing CPU load

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