I'm looking at getting 3 or 4 cameras to put on the outside of my house and will use my old DS1815+ to record the streams. I think I want to get 4k cameras but I would like the option to record as 1080p just in case the quantity of data proves a bit too much for my fairly old NAS.
My only experience so far is with a bird box camera streaming to surveillance station and for what I can tell to record at a different resolution the camera has to support the lower resolution stream (which the bird cam does not). I can't see any way to transcode on surveillance station as I record. Is this correct?
If so, do all 4k cameras support a 1080p stream? Even if I could transcode it would be better to pick up a native stream as the atom processor probably wouldn't cope transcoding.
I am looking at Reolink cameras but only because the look reasonable for the price. If I should be looking at a different brand for this that would be fine.
My only experience so far is with a bird box camera streaming to surveillance station and for what I can tell to record at a different resolution the camera has to support the lower resolution stream (which the bird cam does not). I can't see any way to transcode on surveillance station as I record. Is this correct?
If so, do all 4k cameras support a 1080p stream? Even if I could transcode it would be better to pick up a native stream as the atom processor probably wouldn't cope transcoding.
I am looking at Reolink cameras but only because the look reasonable for the price. If I should be looking at a different brand for this that would be fine.