DVR like configuration help

[InetKen]

I have ZM installed and working on CentOS 5...sort of. I have six Axis 210 camera's (testing with only two right now) and I want to record a picture every 4 seconds, not use zones. I have this working but the recording and views lag. If I look at a particular camera the movement lags, it looks like slow motion, then all of a sudden the movement jumps and goes into slow motion again. The time stamp increments correctly but the movement is clearly lagging. If I look at the events, it also shows the lagging and jumping.

I have the two camera's I'm testing setup to Maximum 1FPS and Frame Skip 4. I don't know if this is correct to do what I want it to. I also have the section length at 14400 to give me 4 hour blocks of recording.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Ken

[agoodm]

Of course the movement will lag... 0.25 fps... Thats extremely time lapsed. Try 1fps and no frame skip for smoother (all be it still really time lapsed) movement.

[InetKen]

Maybe I wasn't clear in the explanation. The movement is in slow motion and then jumps ahead some frames. So, the problem is that ZM is recording too many frames instead of 1 every four seconds. For example, if someone is walking by they are moving in slow motion then all of a sudden the movement jumps and the person is in slow motion again.

Here are my settings:
Maximum FPS: 2.00
Alarm Maximum FPS: 2.00
Section Length: 14400 (Will probably half that to two hour sections instead of 4)
Frame Skip: 7

I also made the "All" zone inactive. The way I understand it though, in record mode, no image processing is done. So I don't know why when looking at the camera live or recording it's just not grabbing an image every 4 seconds.

Ken