Ways to resolve smearing, smudging, streaking, melting, and artifacts

This is known to affect H.264 streams over UDP.

By : Moe Alam

Date Added : Wed Jul 26 2017 16:19:04 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Last Updated : Sat May 02 2020 20:40:48 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Update FFMPEG

You should be on FFMPEG 3.x or greater for the best performance.

Try these settings

Generally a lot can be cleared up when using TCP instead of UDP. Also by increasing the duration to wait for data we can allow the camera a chance to complete a stream from long distances or poor connections.

  1. RTSP Transport : TCP
  2. Analyzation Duration : 1000000
  3. Probe Size : 1000000

Got an RTSP camera?

See How I optimized my RTSP camera settings in Shinobi.

Still having issues and want to try one more thing?

Try this article : Stop smearing or broken streams with CBR streams instead of VBR