Quick question about camera status window

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oldspyguy

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Under MPixels what is the second number represent?
"Fieldcam" is a 5MP on a 2.8 sensor I think but shows 0.3, "Fieldreo" is a 8MP on a very small sensor (reolink crap) and shows 0.2
Now heres what I dont get.
The new "Empireteck" is 4MP on a 1.8 sensor but it still shows 0.3?
Also if there is anything elese in that picture that looks wrong please let me know. My first BI server is running great with 12% cpu most of the time. so far lol
Thanks again....

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oldspyguy said:
Under MPixels what is the second number represent?
"Fieldcam" is a 5MP on a 2.8 sensor I think but shows 0.3, "Fieldreo" is a 8MP on a very small sensor (reolink crap) and shows 0.2
Now heres what I dont get.
The new "Empireteck" is 4MP on a 1.8 sensor but it still shows 0.3?
Also if there is anything elese in that picture that looks wrong please let me know. My first BI server is running great with 12% cpu most of the time. so far lol
Thanks again....

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A quick click on the help button gives this info, but does not clarify what the second number refers to, I am pretty sure that it is not the sensor size, as one of my cheap camera's is 0.9 and my higher resolution cameras are 0.3

Pixels
This is the number of picture elements in each image—the width multiplied by the height.
The value is given in MP (megapixels or millions of pixels). You may click the Pixels
column header to switch between MP and XxY resolution formats.
 
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oldspyguy said:
Under MPixels what is the second number represent?
"Fieldcam" is a 5MP on a 2.8 sensor I think but shows 0.3, "Fieldreo" is a 8MP on a very small sensor (reolink crap) and shows 0.2
Now heres what I dont get.
The new "Empireteck" is 4MP on a 1.8 sensor but it still shows 0.3?
Also if there is anything elese in that picture that looks wrong please let me know. My first BI server is running great with 12% cpu most of the time. so far lol
Thanks again....

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The key rate for both your main and sub are not 1.0, you would have to go into the camera web page and adjust the setting on each camera, something like shown below, you want to have the I Frame interval set the same as the FPS, I have been told that a good number is 15 for the FPS and the IFrame setting, I also note that you are using hardware acceleration on your cameras, it has been suggested to me that it is not needed and may put more load on your CPU than leaving it off, it is worth trying to see if it does reduce your CPU load!
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Bruce_H said:
The key rate for both your main and sub are not 1.0, you would have to go into the camera web page and adjust the setting on each camera, something like shown below, you want to have the I Frame interval set the same as the FPS, I have been told that a good number is 15 for the FPS and the IFrame setting, I also note that you are using hardware acceleration on your cameras, it has been suggested to me that it is not needed and may put more load on your CPU than leaving it off, it is worth trying to see if it does reduce your CPU load!
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Thats better , One thing though and it might be related to the key rate?

Why does the empiretech turret have soooo many clips compared to the others????
Thanks again
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oldspyguy said:
Thats better , One thing though and it might be related to the key rate?

Why does the empiretech turret have soooo many clips compared to the others????
Thanks again
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Well the answer is probably quite simple, it has detected motion more often than the other cameras, probably due to more moving objects in it's field of view and different settings for the motion sensor, it might also be detecting motion every time you move it, there is a setting to prevent this, look on the PTZ/Control tab for the camera make sure that "Suspend motion detection" is selected, it's explained in the help button
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Bruce_H said:
Well the answer is probably quite simple, it has detected motion more often than the other cameras, probably due to more moving objects in it's field of view and different settings for the motion sensor, it might also be detecting motion every time you move it, there is a setting to prevent this, look on the PTZ/Control tab for the camera make sure that "Suspend motion detection" is selected, it's explained in the help button
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Not it.
Its not PTZ, Motion is off in BI, Motion is off in camera, SMD is off in camera, and they seem to appear even when there is no motion in the activity.
It has a mind of its own it seems.
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