ABS Megacam 4210

[kp4djt]

I have this unit working, I was getting a lot of failures, and it would drop off line after a short
time of operation, I observed a note from another member that the frame rate of ZM and the
camera should be the same, I went it and set the camera to the same as the max frame
on my ZM system, that appears to have helped the off line issue.

I also have been trying to use the RSTP function. If I use VLC, I go in and select <network
device>, I then select RSTP, enter the address and the port (554) and get a stream. When I
try to set up ZM, I get no video. Any idea of what I am doing wrong, I do not see any additional path to the RTSP source. VLC shows good video, but ZM just does not see it.

Any ideas of what is going on?

[WalterArcher]

This camera is quite cool.The megacam is actually very useful outside of this apartment. Make sure you download the latest firmware TE ABS.com site - it allows an outdoor mode.

[kp4djt]

I have the latest on there, indeed the firmware on it is newer than what I see posted on
the site. I still can not get good colour out of it though, but it does great night imaging. I
have played with the settings, done a reset and started over but regardless the day
time images look like IR images, all the greens are white.

[kp4djt]

I have disregarded the colour issue, the cam works great at night even with the IR off!!
BUT, once I got it installed in a location I want to monitor, I turned on MOCORD and found
that there are single frame artifacts that are causing it to record them as events.

I have looked at them and what I see is a frame that is blue or red or green.

If you want to see what they look like you can go to this address
www.wchast.com/zm
login/pwd guest/guest

Go the camera labelled "porch" and look at the events for it. I have fiddled with the frame
rate, on both ZM and the camera but no luck.

[kp4djt]

A follow up on the on going problem with the abs megacam. Here are some of the error
messages ZM tosses while communicating with this cam.

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zmc_m4[8710]: WAR [Corrupt JPEG data: 41 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9]
zmc_m4[8710]: WAR [Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment]
zmc_m4[8710]: WAR [Corrupt JPEG data: bad Huffman code]

The number of extraneous bytes will vary from a low of 20+ bytes to 75 bytes (that is
the largest number I have seen) most are around 40 to 50 bytes.

[ShadowTek]

I also have been trying to use the RSTP function. If I use VLC, I go in and select <network>, I then select RSTP, enter the address and the port (554) and get a stream. When I
try to set up ZM, I get no video. Any idea of what I am doing wrong, I do not see any additional path to the RTSP source. VLC shows good video, but ZM just does not see it.

I'm having the exact same problem. Have you found a solution?

[kp4djt]

I ended up using JPEG and it works pretty well. It does toss errors but ZM recovers just fine.