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Even XP in a VM baulks for me and some of my camera setup plugins in IE so I have to use an actual wndows laptop, if you find a solution to this please do update the thead,

Anyone think of a way to achieve this? have thought could subscribe camera to ddns service and set ZM to connect to it letting it just fault when camera cant be found. however feel there must be a more elegant solution. ZM server has a good fast connection, static IP, and domain name registered to i...

have a read at this, particularly the last post. I ave no first hand experience but it turned up pretty quick when googling "vlc stream geovision"

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=100687

No worries, again appreciate the input, I could get ffmpeg to work glitch free but it did seem awefully fernickity a change in the bitrate, or framerate up or down could make it mess up and there seemed to be no rhyme or reason, to that end im not particularly comfortable relying on it.. Ill have an...

EDIT -- scratch that my zoneminder installation has now became really unstable. will have to sort first (loads of socks errors) before continuing.

Another followup. woke up to a bazillion false events where the bottom half of the screen goes blurry which usually happens if ffmpeg isnt happy with some settings I have chosen, framerate. bitrate etc. and when sunlight came up and I wandered around the unit the load average jumped above 4 (on a 4 ...

Just to update incase anyone else is looking to do the same (search turned up a few folk asking in the past) It turns out this is insanely simple to achieve. Libvlc seemed a little too buggy and laggy for me (may try again another day) but ffmpeg also has options for scaling on the fly, to that end:...

your sig piqued my interest, have used esp8266 for a few little things but when it comes to security/stability K.I.S.S is the way forward for me so a hard wired PIR would be good. the unit has PIR, shutter sensors and so on but the alarm is a closed box and I dont think the landlord would appreciate...

Appreciate your time, am fairly new to zoneminder and cctv in general. Washout on the door is an issue as pointed out, however at night anyone entering is nice and clear, and when the shutters are open (when a junkie is most likely to be an oportunist and grab something) the camera adjusts and the v...

Apologies photobucket scales the picture but take my word for it its 2592x1920

Images captured are 2592x1920. The cameras do support multiple streams except when running in 5mp mode. then there is only one stream. This image is a direct capture, please forgive the mess of my little workshop. http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af104/evolotion/00036-capture.jpg Camera settings: ...

did you mount -a to apply your changes to fstab?

did you try mounting the zmdata folder without the umask/uid/gid?

Just went thro this myself a few minutes ago and worked fine :/

if you cant get it working in vlc your chances of getting it working in ZM are almost nill (IMHO). as VLC is usually more friendly I would concentrate your efforts there, once working you can port settings over to ZM. did the windows machine use a specific driver or a generic usb video class driver....

white box unbranded cheapest of the cheap. Closest to branding it has is subscription to a "seetong" cloud service which is disabled and blocked by me. camera is based around the TI DM368 dsp and i opened them to confirm they are also 5mp sensors. I am aware many cameras are based on this ...

get the camera working in VLC then use it to tell you framerate, resolution, codec and so on , then use these settings to play with zoneminder. Sadly zoneminder is very unforgiving when setting up cameras, its either right or it wont work lol vlc will generally get most things working with minimal f...