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Do you have it on CBR or VBR?

Regarding the sound, you might want to experiment with the compression style.

Before spending time on that, you'd probably have better luck with 1.36.xx, currently at 33 and proposed 34.
Nice post though.

Not sure what you're seeing...Maybe try changing this in Options->

currently 1/2 dozen cameras, but will probably add more

What are they doing?
I have 21 cams, mostly mocord no analysis on z400 workstation. z400's are cheap, especially if you don't need OS/boot drive.
I have a second z400, same cameras, with analysis, on 1.37.51.

Video writer was set to passthrough and changing that to h264 worked!

Good to know!

Usually, the camera has an h264/h265 option.

First issue, is how to assign IPs from the 192.168.1.0/24 range to the two POE cameras.

Hook them up directly to a machine and set it to the camera's range. There should be a setup page where you can set it to 192.168.1.xxx
Alsoto set either get dhcp or fixed address of your choice.

Are you on the latest version of .51?

I haven't used it lately, but save jpegs used to work -

Ordinarily, port 80, assuming the default apache2 setup.

You need to run the zoneminder ~package~ as root - su. It needs to be root for some of what it does.
so -

sudo su

apt install zoneminder

Sort of. What have you got for Options->Config->EVENT_CLOSE_MODE ?
And what function is the camera set to?

You're missing the font file, I think.
Did you start with sudo su ? I'm guessing not.

$ sudo su
# apt install zoneminder -y
# a2enconf zoneminder
# service apache2 reload

Then I'm pretty sure it'll work OK. If not, you may have to start over.

So 1.36.33 on Ubuntu?
What camera and settings?

Yeah it doesn't always do the job, unfortunately. Dunno why.
While you're at it, make sure you don't have a bunch of trash in the trash...