Higher than normal bandwidth usage when streaming.

[dsebens]

I've just got this set up so maybe I did something wrong. I have 4 wyze cams. The streams them self are around 100-200kb/s. Confirmed from the wyze app and also the ZM console. Yet when I try to view one stream(or all) it shows outbound data rate at 3-5mb/s. Outside of the network it is enough for it to drop frames. If I review a event I dont have that issue though.

If I stream through the wyze app I can watch all feeds with no delay or dropped frames.
Where is this overhead coming from?

My monitor settings are ffmpeg rtsp udp with h264 passthrough. I have tried tcp with no change. I tried x264 and disabled on video writer with no change.

[dsebens]

So I've been messing with this and have no clue what is going on. The cameras are set to h264 passthrough but the web stream is set to jpeg. When viewing on the Zoneminder console Netdata shows 32mbit per stream! Why is this so huge? I can't even watch it with ZMNinja. I have the jpeg stream quality at 40. Even with 1 the stream is 3-4 mb/s, it's obviously unrecognizable at this setting. I get that optimizing streaming is on the agenda for a future release, but still I feel like something is very wrong. If I montage all 4 that's over 100mb/s of data for the source stream being a 100kb/s. I thought about setting up mpeg stream but am not quite sure how to do that. It seems to fail when I try. It is setup for swf, I tried asf also.

Edit: my release is 1.34.22 on Centos

[kjr1995]

Did you ever figure anything out? I get the same issue and it kills my wifi network with just 3 wyze cameras streaming.

[fontiano]

same problem here. It seems that the parameters that can be set on the bandwidth profiles do not work. Even if I lower the framerate to 2, the bandwidth usage is relatively high. If I try to remotely view the stream of a single camera, my upload bandwidth is saturated (10 mbit). Same thing if I use zmninja by setting the low bandwidth profile.