On a strange note: I installed OSX as a virtual machine (as a test) on my Windows 7 PC and iCamsource runs smooth in the OSX VM... so the code for OSX must be more efficient than the windows counterpart... can this be looked into?
Nothing like that... in fact one of the systems I'm testing it on is a brand new Dell workstation which has been reformatted and has a fresh vanilla copy of windows 7 installed.
Other thoughts? I'm tempted to take a video of the performance to show what I'm talking about... surely it can't be just me with this problem though, is it?
We have Axis 216FD cameras, as well as some Axis 215PTZ cameras.
Same cameras on the mac were tested on the PC. I have tried it with JUST 216FD cameras, and then JUST the 215PTZ cameras, as well as a mixture of the two.. same results every time. Fast on the Mac, slow on a PC.
I appreciate the replies... but I think we're getting off track here. On the same network, same connection, same devices, etc - mac is fast, windows is slow. I've been testing it on wifi in my cases and used to use it on 3G on my ipad, and it was still faster than 2-5fps when opened fullscreen... it's always been fast when run on a mac... I'm just asking what can be done to speed up the video feed for the PC side?
When video is feeding, the CPU hits about 30%... I don't know what you mean about dropping the frame rate to 2-5fps for stability? Nothing is unstable, it's just not fast like it is on a mac. Same camera settings work fine on a mac... I'm not even sure I have permission to change the frame rate of the cameras... As it stands right now, it is roughly 1 frame every second or two seconds... it's incredibly slow. Same settings on a mac source, brilliant.
I have iCamSource 2.5 installed on two different macs, 16 cameras added, runs beautifully.
I have iCamSource 2.5 installed on three different windows PCs (1 xp, 2 win 7) and even with one camera, on all three systems, the framerates are absolutely terrible. The XP machine is about 4 years old, while the two win 7 machines are less than 1 year and very high end.
All computers are on the same network. (gigabit, copper and fiber) Frame rate stays the same whether on 3G, LTE, or Wifi - great for mac host, bad for win hosts. I have always had this problem in the past and wanted to note it here on the forum so that the windows source can be updated to work as well as the mac. I'd like to hear from anyone who is using the windows source software that is having good luck.
I also noticed on the windows version, you can add more than 16 cameras - which is a feature I greatly desire, but it crashes when you try to start the service. On the mac version you cannot add more than 16 cameras... can this feature be added?
Can anyone shed some light or point something out I may be doing incorrectly?
I have never noticed the drop down numbers to the right of the password field in icamsource... can someone tell me what this does? It has the listed options of 1-16... seems to be configurable for each individual camera... what purpose does it serve and where can I find that documentation? There isn't a help document with icam source. (running on mac osx 10.7.2 - icamsource latest update 2.4.1)
Is there a way to do more than 16 cameras? We bought a mac mini with 8GB of ram and a i7 processor for iCam. We want to stream our security cameras to all administrators who have iPads.
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