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It is possible to use IP camera substreams for motion detection but record at full main stream quality when motion is detected?
This would reduce the loading on my relatively low powered system as it would not have to process the 1080p h264 images...
If not, please...
Apologies if this is possible, but I've found nothing obvious...

PS btw nice work on 1.26 - halved my cpu load.

If your camera has facility to produce more than one stream of differing qualities simultaneously, yes.

Axis, Y-Cam do.

Foscam doesn't. (Yes, you can specify resolution on the URL, but it resets the global setting and exposure)

Yes my camera can do simultaneous streams.
It's a Qvis APOIP EYE2: Maplin code N61CD (sorry can't link - it thinks I'm spam). This seems to an AData brand.
The rtsp stream URL (for future google hits): rtsp://username:password@ipaddress:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0?tcp
Change subtype to 1 for the substream.

After digging in the docs a bit it seems that "Linking Monitors" is the way to do this.
I will play with this tonight.
Thanks for the hint to say this is possible.