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Does it really matter if it fills your disk? Just make sure that you keep the purge-when-full filter set to a level where in the time between runs, it won't overflow the disk. Also, storing your event video using h264 will ensure that you can record a LOT of data. For instance, my cameras record 2 G...

There are two options I can see.
1) You can view the LIVE feed. Hint: Monitor --> Buffers --> Stream Replay Image Buffer to allow you to pause and rewind the live stream.
2) You can reduce the length of your segments. This will be in the MISC tab of the monitor configuration page.

Little hint: If your cameras output h264, you might be better off using h264 passthrough. This will prevent the video quality from degrading due to a re-encoding, and will lighten CPU load.

Hi, new 1.32 has better web interface and some interesting new features, but CPU load went up from 1.2 to 2.6 and it is not really stable. I have lots of archived events and I tried to restore the 1.32 database into new created db with zm 1.30.4, but zoneminder crashes when start capturing, reporti...

Hmm. That may not be unexpected. In your source/monitor configurations, under the STORAGE tab, do you have it set up to save JPEG's? If NOT, then it will have to generate those JPEG's on the fly in real time while in montage mode in addition to whatever processing it is already doing, and of course,...