Video Stream Freezing up on Dashboard

Configuration
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I am currently running HA on a Pi4-4GB. I have a single dashboard that displays two live video feeds from my local Blue Iris server. I view the dashboard on my iPad Air. I have tried viewing the dashboard both within the HA app, as well as safari and chrome. I am accessing these feeds from my Blue iris Webcast URL. The Problem: The video feeds lock up for 3-4 seconds then continues to stream. This happens probably 10x an hour.

The blue iris feeds are rock solid when accessing them from any other application outside of HA. The CPU usage on the Pi4 never reaches more than 10%-12%

I have looked in the logs and I do see an occasional error with one of my Hue motion sensors, but aside from that, no errors.

Can anyone suggest where else I can look to identify why the video stream is not solid? Thanks for any help!

Here is how I have my camera configured in my config file:

# Cameras
stream:

camera Driveway_Camera:
  - platform: mjpeg
    mjpeg_url: http://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX:xxxxx/mjpg/Driveway
    name: Driveway_Camera
    username: myusername
    password: mypassword
    authentication: basic
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I’ve also noticed that my BI streams will hang after a certain amount of time. The hanging happens on HA dashboard as well as when using video proxy to send the stream to chromecast. Seems to me that something is hanging or HA has a timeout on the stream because the BI stream will play forever on VLC.. I was wrong, the BI stream also stops when played in VLC player. I now think this is a BI issue.

I am running in Docker on my QNAP NAS, so I don’t think the hanging is due to limited resources.

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Any chance if you guys found a fix for this?

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Nope, the issue still persists in the latest release.

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