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Hello,

I'm running a simple program for record (using FFMPEG H264 compress) and preview - a 1920x1080 aprox. 50FPS capture device - and i'm constantly getting 100 % of the cpu. I already tested on other pc (not MAC) and same result. Is it normal ?! This is a problem because, when 100% of usage the program drop frames, because it can't handle more..

My specs:

MacBook Pro Early 2015 (native Windows installed)
Intel Core i5 dual-core 2,7 GHz

My Code:

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(...)
// start camera and preview
VideoCaptureDevice videoSourceEndo = new VideoCaptureDevice(videoDevices[cb_endo.SelectedIndex].MonikerString);
AsyncVideoSource asyncVideoSourceEndo = new AsyncVideoSource(videoSourceEndo);
asyncVideoSourceEndo.SkipFramesIfBusy = false;

videoSourcePlayer1.VideoSource = asyncVideoSourceEndo;
videoSourcePlayer1.Start();

videoSourceEndo.NewFrame += VideoSourceEndo_NewFrame;

(...)
private void VideoSourceEndo_NewFrame(object sender, NewFrameEventArgs eventArgs)
        {
            if (isRecording && writer1 != null && writer1.IsOpen)
            {
                Bitmap bitmap = (Bitmap)eventArgs.Frame.Clone();
                writer1.WriteVideoFrame(bitmap);
                bitmap.Dispose();
            }
        }


Hello,

AForge.NET Framework uses FFmpeg library for saving video. So it is that component which must be troubleshooted.

Any way, 100% CPU usage does not sound too wrong for encoding video at 1920x1080@50fps .

Thanks for awnsering my question..

Is there any way of boost the processing without a better CPU? (use integrated GPU or something...)

Check with FFmpeg, which hadnles video saving.