If you need to display 8 or more camera live views, you may need to configure the second camera stream so that viewing is done at a lower frame rate or resolution, depending on how powerful the client PC is. RAM is less important than CPU for rendering video.

Video playback is very CPU intensive. If you are experiencing choppy video playback and cameras “freezing” during playback, you likely have a client performance problem. Use the diagnostic tools available on your client OS and look at the CPU usage when you are experiencing video problems. If possible, keep the CPU usage below 50%.

To optimize client performance, use the video and camera profiles to define and assign a second video stream for each camera. To increase the number of live views the client computer can display, or to reduce the CPU requirement for a given number of live views, reduce the resolution, quality and/or frames per second of the second video streams.

Ten FPS is a good general setting for live views, which provides a reasonable frame rate for the live views, but significantly reduces the load on the client (compared to 30 FPS which is more ideal for higher traffic area surveillance).