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make sure to turn on enhanced debugging for each process (or atleast zmc) and set the debug level to 5 or 6.

zoneminder should not be run on a laptop being used as a laptop in most situations. It is best to run zoneminder on an always on desktop/server (as generally most people what 24/7survaliance) but as its cpu and disk requirements can vary it would cause interference or be interfered with a user on th...

Quad core cpus are so cheap I would definately go that way if you want to do multiple cams. Combined with intel ipp (see recent posts) or some other optimization libs (plus limited zone areas if possible) you oculd pull off multiple cams at that resolution. Make sure to do a decent hd raid setup to ...

Yep very nice although again some confusion over paid support i really think if possible outlining exactly what you get with paid support is a good idea. IE, you pay X, you can submit tickets to a system which allow us to track issues and securely transmit sensitive data. In addition there is phone ...

the guide specifically says to post details when asking for help online along with the ZMC debug log however you did not. So I am happy you followed the guide but somehow missed that part.

Also looking back at your posts asking for help you nicely show your inability to follow instructions. Assuming you read http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Documentation which for troulbeshooting points you to: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting And yet you couldn't do th...

Sounds like you were able to write an ad for Motion, congrats. Zoneminder is most likely the largest linux cctv solution out there. Virtually every distribution carries it and it has a large number of users. Sorry you were unable to get it working, especially your 'quality issues', but they were mos...

your packet capture should really contain everything you need. Just look at the first request that gets sent out when you go to view the feed if its following the http standard it will say Get /whatever.whatever?params HTTP 1/1 etc make sure you look at what you are sending the server, not what the ...

The way ZM stores and processes video is just about the best way to do it. It decodes any format to a common medium for analysis, then writes it out as a jpeg (not overly intensive). This could cause issues if your IO bound but in that case add another drive and raid them. Storing as JPEG's allows t...

Each processor has its own optimization libs (intel IPP vs AMD's) I haven't worked with AMD's but seen very nice results from Intels so you may see similar if you don't care about getting your hands a bit dirty.

Reducing the FPS yes, reducing the zone size no.

So your main issue is the Motion Detection, the good news is there is a lot you can do here to help! To start as you said, set the max fps to something low (say 4 fps) and the alarm FPS to what you want to record at (say 15 FPS). This will help keep the load down when not in alarm mode. The second, ...

Please stop posting in this thread, you can move to one of the troubleshooting forums but it does not belong here. Please see the wikipedia page on troubleshooting also for how to properly post the issues. Also make sure ffmpeg /mplayer work from the command line.