Buffer Overflow Warning Messages
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Buffer Overflow Warning Messages
I'm getting "Recording Buffer Overflow Error" on my TS431. Can someone point me to a resource for dealing with this?
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Re: Buffer Overflow Warning Messages
anything that hogs the cpu ?
surveilance station seems to unable to keep up with recordings
surveilance station seems to unable to keep up with recordings
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Re: Buffer Overflow Warning Messages
What's the aggregate bitrate on the cameras and what have you set the pre-record duration to?I'm getting "Recording Buffer Overflow Error" on my TS431. Can someone point me to a resource for dealing with this?
It sounds like the pre-record buffer isn't big enough to cope with how you have pre-recording set.
TS-431+ for storage and media and a bunch of IP cams under Surveillance Station. TVS-473 as files backup and QVR Pro.
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Re: Buffer Overflow Warning Messages
At the moment it's set to 2 seconds. I'll reduce it to 1 and see if anything changes. I've already tried lowering the camera bit rates.AlastairStevenson wrote:What's the aggregate bitrate on the cameras and what have you set the pre-record duration to?I'm getting "Recording Buffer Overflow Error" on my TS431. Can someone point me to a resource for dealing with this?
It sounds like the pre-record buffer isn't big enough to cope with how you have pre-recording set.
Thanks!
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Re: Buffer Overflow Warning Messages
Could be - seems like I can cause it by copying a large chunk of files to the NAS while camera recording is activated.dolbyman wrote:anything that hogs the cpu ?
surveilance station seems to unable to keep up with recordings
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Re: Buffer Overflow Warning Messages
2 seconds is quite short - I was wondering if maybe it had been set to a much longer time.At the moment it's set to 2 seconds.
In that case, unless you have a lot of cameras (say 10 or more) running at a high bitrate (say > 8Mbps each) it's probably not the pre-record buffer it's complaining about.
If you check the resource monitor, does it show any significant swap memory usage?
Surveillance Station is quite memory-hungry, needs a minimum of about 600MB even for a couple of cameras.
TS-431+ for storage and media and a bunch of IP cams under Surveillance Station. TVS-473 as files backup and QVR Pro.