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iCam Support / Re: CPU Usage

« on: June 28, 2010, 12:07:29 PM »

Ah I see, that makes sense.

I do appreciate you looking into this option and responding quickly.  I think any implementation of this "dynamic audio" option would be very powerful - whether it be a user toggle from icam, or just an automatic enable when someone logs in.

I've already impressed a bunch of my friends with this iphone app and this security setup.

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iCam Support / Re: CPU Usage

« on: June 27, 2010, 06:55:12 PM »

I thought the same thing, but the audio seems more intensive...

On my system (i7 imac), we are talking about a difference of about 5%.  It's between 2-3% with audio turned off, and about 8% with audio turned on.  Both of these are with the preferences closed, of course.

I've turned my mocap frequency down to about 1.8 seconds.

I'm really happy with the 2-3%, but like I mentioned in my previous post, I'd love to have the option to turn the audio capture on on the fly in case I wanted it when I am tuned in.

Doesn't seem like there would really be a need for audio to be enabled unless you were tuned in.

What do you think?

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iCam Support / Re: CPU Usage

« on: June 26, 2010, 04:18:49 PM »

Hey Guys, really enjoying this setup so far.

I found this thread very useful.  I was happy to get my CPU usage down from a constant 12/13% to a more reasonable 3% by turning off audio and decreasing the motion detection frequency. [I was actually surprised that it would be that high for a beefy i7 machine in the first place!]

I did really like having the audio available though.  Would it be possible to enable audio on demand through iCam's interface?  Or to only start processing audio encoding when iCam was connected?  This way when the machine was just sitting around, it wouldn't be doing un-necessary work.

It might also be nice to be able to toggle the audio quality in addition to what I've mentioned so that it wouldn't be as intense - although I'm not sure how that works in the background.

I guess the idea is that when your machine is idle, it should be using basically no CPU, and then when you connect, it makes sense that it spikes up a bit.

Thanks!