Iqeye511 FPS problem

[Nimrod 0]

I have a Iqeye511 IP camera and I can only get 2.x frames per second using blue iris software. Iqeyes spec sheet says this.

 

"The camera shall produce 15 frames per second (fps) at full 1.3 megapixel 1280(H) x 1024(V) resolution. The maximum frame rates are 15fps at 4:3 aspect ratio and 21fps at 16:9 aspect ratio."

 

I am running 1280 x 1024 and only get 2.x frames a second. I tried 1280 x 720 and got it up to 5 fps. In the camera internal settings, I have Motion is turned off, quality is at lowest setting, and i have optimise for speed selected, I also have updated the camera to the latest firmware. In blue iris I have tried 10, 15 and 20 fps settings with no change in speed, I am only using 10% cpu in computer.

 

Can anyone confirm that the Iqeye511 can actually reach the 15fps speed as advertised.

 

EDIT: By closing the web browser and only having 1 stream to Blue iris i can get about 3.8 fps at 1280 x 1024.

[Korgoth Of Barbaria 0]

Yup, 15 fps it is

We use them on Koukaam KNR-100 and we get full 15fps, same on Qnap VS.

 

How it is connected to Your NVR?

Can You post specification of this NVR?

[Nimrod 0]

“We use them on Koukaam KNR-100 and we get full 15fps, same on Qnap VS.

 

How it is connected to Your NVR?

Can You post specification of this NVR?”

 

The computer is a 1.8ghz duel core with 2 gigs and windows XP running about 10% CPU. The computer and the Iqeyes511 both connect directly to a Linksys WRTSL54GS router, each run is 20 feet. this is currently the only camera connected to Blue Iris, Cat5e 10/100Mbit, There is no other network traffic.

 

The Blue Iris software is here.

 

http://www.blueirissoftware.com/

 

This is low end but full featured software. In email’s about general capabilites of Blue Iris with them i was told it can handle IP cameras up to around 5MP, the Iqeyes511 is 1.3MP. I have not asked them for help yet with this problem because I wanted to make sure the camera could really do 15fps as you just verified. I was getting 15fps with a Foscam/EasyN dome camera 640 x 480 yesterday.

 

The last thing i could do is verify that my camera can do 15fps (it is a older 511, 3 to 5 years old) but i am not sure how i could do this.

[Soundy 1]

There should be a "video clip" button on the main display window in the browser interface, you can record an AVI from there and check the output in VLC (it will tell you the actual framerate, among other stats).

 

I have a couple set up here, if I get the chance, I'll test them in a bit - right now I have the two of them and a 2MP HIKvision cam all linking to my network via DD-WRT wireless bridge, so I'm not getting anywhere near full speed out of them.

[Nimrod 0]

“There should be a "video clip" button on the main display window in the browser interface, you can record an AVI from there and check the output in VLC (it will tell you the actual framerate, among other stats).”

 

I made a few clips and tried to get the frame rate out of VLC. The only place i could see a fps number was under “tools" “Media codec" were it listed the fps number that was embedded in the file and not the actual number.

 

I did an experiment to verify fps. I recorded a 1 min clip at 5fps setting and another clip 1 min at 15fps. Both clips were 30MB in size, so they had to be the same frame rate. In VLC the clip recorded at 5 fps displayed as 5fps and the clip recorded at 15fps displayed as 15fps in the media codec menu, this tells me that the frame rate number is encoded in the file and not measured by VLC.

 

Also Blue Iris support told me that an anti virus program could be the problem. But i do not have one installed. Also i turned XP's firewall off.

 

Edit: Is there some good NVR software that is free for at least one camera that I could load up and test with this IqEye511 camera.

[Korgoth Of Barbaria 0]

You can try IQsentry, free IQeye NVR for one camera.

 

ftp://ftp.fen.pl/sterowniki/IQeye/IQsentry.rar

 

Can You try to connect that cam directly to Your computer?

[Nimrod 0]

“Can You try to connect that cam directly to Your computer?”

 

I tried to connect the camera directly to the computer with a regular cat5 cable but it would not work, so i ordered a crossover cat5 to try.

 

I will try that software now, thanks.

[Soundy 1]

"Directly" with a crossover vs. via a switch/router will make no difference, unless the switch is faulty.

[Nimrod 0]

Korgoth Of Barbaria, thank you for that IQsenty demo, it answered a lot of questions. The utility has several useful features like live readings of FPS, KB per second of images, and average frame size. What i found was that the IQ511 has a maximum output of 1900KBS and it will adjust the frame rate as needed to stay under this. Only the lowest video quality at 1280x1024 will give 14fps. The highest quality drops the frame rate down to 5.2fps. I accidently stumbled on the super secret live frame rate meter. On the bottom right of the display screen it shows the live KBS of the image, click on it and it will rotate to live FPS in 3 different languages.

 

IQsentry utility

IQ511 camera

1280x1024

avg frame size, fps, bandwidth

144kB 14fps 1900KBS quality 0 lowest

345KB 5.2fps 1800KBS quality 10 highest

 

With that said Blue Iris is definitely reading the stream slowly, when IQ sentry is reading around 5fps Blue Iris is reading about .8 fps.