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I'm not sure if your post was directed at me or not. I ended up not using ZM at all but used Raspbmc instead. It doesn't do any recording to my knowledge, just displays the video. nice - i'm going to try this out for two cameras and possibly recording.. surprised at how small the image was. did you ...

I got this working perfectly using Raspbmc. Thanks for all of your input!

The cameras I'm using output MJPEG and H264. Can the Pi hardware decode H264? Thanks. (VLC) was pegging the CPU on the Pi and freezing the video. The camera will probably be returning something like Motion JPEG (older) or RTSP (newer) and there's no hardware acceleration for that on the PI, so it wo...

That was precisely my original idea, but the guy that was working on this before me tried for weeks to get VLC working, but said it was pegging the CPU on the Pi and freezing the video. I'll go back to that if these other solutions don't work. If it's an IP Camera, and you don't want to record the o...

Thanks, I'll look into this first! BTW, this forum software kind of sucks... Got the error replying to your post because "Your post looks too spamy for a new user, please remove off-site URLs.", but it was the original post that had the URL in it, I was only replying to it... I want to use...

I want to use a Raspberry Pi to monitor a single 720p IP camera and display that fullscreen. I don't need to record the video or anything else. Would Zoneminder be a good solution for this purpose?

Thanks,

Mike