Re: [Motion-user] RTSP stream and CPU utilization

[Colin L. <cl...@gm...>]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 16:43, David Powell <da...@de...> wrote:
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> I have 3 IP cameras configured in Motion running on a Raspberry Pi (Ubuntu).  These cameras all use MJPEG streams and the CPU utilization on the Pi hovers around 50%.
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> I added another camera which doesn't support MJPEG, but does support RTSP.  Adding this one RTSP camera ran the CPU utilization up to around 200% (I believe this Pi has a quad-core CPU).  Is this typical for RTSP?  Is there any way to reduce the load for this protocol?  I want to add several more cameras but cheap wireless outdoor IP cameras that support MJPEG seem to be hard to come by nowadays.

What is the resolution of the mjpeg cameras and what is the rtsp one?

Colin

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