Can't lower framerate with Blackmagic Decklink

We have FME3 and a Blackmagic Decklink SDI 10bit, drivers v6.6.  We would like to stream at 15fps, but in FME, I can't set the framerate to anything lower than 25.  When choosing 15, it just jumps to 25.
Also tried changing it in the card's system driver - which I can - but then when I load up FME, its clearly still running at 29.97, and I still can't change to 15.
Any thoughts?

FMLE supports only those FPS that are supported by device.
In this case device is giving fixed FPS which is 29.97 irrespective of value selected in FMLE. You are sometimes getting 25 FPS because of unavailabity of enough CPU to encode 29 frames per second.
The only workaround in order to get 15 FPS output is to load your CPU or Increase Video frame size so that some of the frames get dropped by FMLE because of unavailablity of CPU and effective output FPS drops to 15.

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