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Of course you can't just strip *all* spaces out, as some people actually use them! (Although a trailing space like that is evil ...)

How do you know which spaces to strip?

I think you're right. BTW "Key frame" is basically the same as "I" frame that I referred to (MPEG terminology). This "long GOP" situation is very good for keeping bitrates down. But it is why some videos can take a couple of seconds to get back to normal after a bit of corrupt data, or are hard to s...

To completely misquote Tony Hancock ... "Six frames? That's barely a GOP!" I can well believe that some software may not cope well with such a trivial video snippet. Of course, if that's the actual length of the event (e.g 2 FPS, 3 seconds long) then you probably expect it to work. But formats like ...

someone could cut the power cable which provides power in the house (and in the surveillance system that I will build). Addressing this point specifically, as you are designing the system, budget for a UPS . It doesn't have to be huge. It does have to have a way of keeping your cameras, any IP-netw...

It's not really in both locations -- if you look closely you should see that the numbered directories are real, and the "named" directories are symbolic links to them (for convenience/user friendly use). You may find the same if you start poking about inside the directories, a folder called ".123456...

... which means your underlying file system probably *is* something usable (ext2-3-4) and it's just that the CIFS/SMB implementation is only expecting to talk to DOS level computers.

Glad you sorted it.

What file system is your NAS using? FAT? ext2/3/4? NTFS? A lot of these cheaper/lower end NAS boxes still use FAT file systems internally that don't know a thing about permissions and ownership, and so the NAS (or linux) may have to fake up some answers for you when accessed over the network. I have...

To the OP: Can you confirm that you actually meant "an event that is older than 24 hours?" and not "an event that is 24 hours long!"

My last comment was partly a joke, but the point was serious: Trying to create tiny "avoidance" areas like that seems a lot of effort, gives ZM more work to do, and seems remarkably precise as to the shape of the thing you are cutting round. Hint: Look at "exclusion" zones too, as they can be used t...

First thought: Move the points that are VERY close to the edge away from edge of frame, I've sometimes had complaints when getting right near the edge. Second thought: Take out those two funny little insertions into the polygon, it looks like you could cover this area with a 4 sided polygon and save...

Your observed difference between the DB paths to events, and to the file system path to events -- seems to be connected to this thread here ... https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=27664 Regarding selecting the "storage scheme". I wonder if this setting (and implications around a diffe...

What bbunge said: Give them the stills (plus the video if you insist).

Otherwise you may find they will sit on the video for 2-3 weeks and then come back to you with a request for the video "in a proper format as we can't view it". Been there, done that.

bbunge wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:21 pm

Zoneminder is not designed for HD movies!

Clearly not, but it does look like ZoneMinder is trying to *watch* a DVD in those error messages

> I'm not being able to change network settins(as the ip address assigned to the camera doesn't even fall under my subnet Do you know what the IP address is? Or is it just "not discovered on my subnet, therefore must be foreign"? I recall having something like this with a newly supplied item (and ze...

"instruct the hard drive to rather get some bytes wrong than drop a frame."

What a way to sell an unreliable hard drive as a positive. Call it a dedicated feature. I'd rather mine retained the data I gave them.

If I want an SATA-enabled chocolate teapot, I'll bear these drives in mind