I think that’s true, although I haven’t found any need to manage it from within UI3 since very early days. I was thinking about the configuration options within Blue Iris itself, but obviously there are many options…just depends what one needs.
Not re-encoding video is a beautiful thing, as is the use of secondary video streams…it makes it possible to manage a large number of high-resolution IP cameras on rather modest hardware. My personal Blue Iris machine is an old i7 2600K with (15) 4 MP POE cameras and the CPU usage is typically under 20 percent. Granted, it does have a pretty nice graphics card, which BI is able to take advantage of, but it’s all just recycled hardware from days gone by. One could say that it didn’t cost me anything to build a competent BI machine…depends how one looks at it…