
Optimizing Blue Iris
Blue Iris enables you to create a private, powerful, and economical video surveillance server – capturing video, alerting on motion/sound, and more from your IP and web cameras. But without the right configuration, your Blue Iris server can slow to a crawl. This article will give you some tips on how to optimize Blue Iris for high quality recording, server responsiveness, reliability, and overall usability.
Blue Iris | Options
Web Server | Advanced | Configure
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Startup
- Check “Run as a Windows service”
- Helps keep the app up and running
Other
- Scaling = Fast
Cameras
- Intel HD hardware acceleration = Yes (H.264)
- Limit live preview rate = 1fps
- 2nd most important setting – This setting causes every camera displayed in the console to stream updated frames at the rate specified. Higher rates will cause significant CPU utilization. Only configure higher if you must leave the console window open and see events in real-time (like a security guard constantly reviewing live security feeds).