Frame Rate

Frame Rate is the number of frames per second for EyesOnIt to process from your video stream. Frame Rate does not apply to images. The video stream from your camera will have a fixed frame rate. 15 and 30 are common camera frame rates. Setting the frame rate at or above the frame rate of your video stream will cause EyesOnIt to process every video frame from the camera. Setting the frame rate below the frame rate of your video stream will cause EyesOnIt to skip frames to process frames at your desired frame rate. For example, if the frame rate of your video stream is 15, but you only need to process five frames per second, you can set the EyesOnIt frame rate to five. In this example, EyesOnIt will process one of every three frames from the video stream to process five frames per second.

In general, your system will be able to process more video streams if you use the lowest frame rate for each stream that still provides good detection results. To track the motion of moving objects, you will need to use a higher frame rate. If you just want to periodically check an area where change happens infrequently, a lower frame rate will be ideal. The lowest frame rate that EyesOnIt currently accepts is 1 frame per second.