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I had a look at smart-zoneminder, interesting project. I am not sure how easy it would be to hack to look for mp4 instead of jpg as there are some major differences. The biggest difference is a jpg file is written to disk in one go, whereas the mp4 file is written and then added to for 10mins. You e...

I would like to get ZM to upload alarm events to S3 immediately to counter the threat of someone breaking in and stealing the server along with all the footage. I have seen a few options which do this using third party scripts like https://github.com/CampsiteHelper/ZoneMinderS3 however these use ima...

I just did some testing on a Q6600 system, and if memory serves the I3-2100 is somewhere near the Q6600, both a bit older and slower. I have 6GB and was running five 3mp (2048x1536) cameras at 4fps, but saving at only 2fps. That's still more resolution and twice the save rate. Also 4 of the 5 were ...

I have a Hosafe 2MB2 1080p IP camera connected to zoneminder via ffmpeg/RTSP.
I am finding that my cpu usage just for capturing is ~25%.
I have set the camera as a Monitor, 1920x1080 resolution, 5fps.
Running Centos 7 on i3-2100 with 4GB ram.

Any idea why the cpu usage is so high?