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We're considering building a significant infrastructure on ZoneMinder, but before we do, I was curious if there was a way to stream JUST the video output from the camera through ZoneMinder, then imbed that stream into a website?

A particular reason for my not wanting to stream directly from the IP camera; we're going to have employees who may wish to redirect a PTZ camera via the ZoneMinder interface. And rather than have them hunting down different IP's, it would be nice to have all of the available cameras listed in the ZoneMinder interface.

Thanks!

Yes you can get a url to the direct video feed and open it on any mjpeg/swf/asf capable browser, or embed it to a website, etc

Give some examples of such browsers, plz!

I'd be interested in how to do this too.

I've seen this link in the wiki:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/IpCamMontage

And several other comments as well, but all don't seem to address the case where you have to use authenticated users (to access a limited subset of cameras).

I did ask last year about this (http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 21&t=16288), but never got any reply. Not sure if anybody has any new experience or feedback since.

I checked in zoneminder 1.25.0, the URL hasn't changed yet, i.e. you can still use it like:
http://<zm>/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=single&monitor=1&scale=100&auth=<authkey>&connkey=<connkey>&rand=<randnum>

xarope wrote:I'd be interested in how to do this too.

I've seen this link in the wiki:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/IpCamMontage

And several other comments as well, but all don't seem to address the case where you have to use authenticated users (to access a limited subset of cameras).

I did ask last year about this (http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 21&t=16288), but never got any reply. Not sure if anybody has any new experience or feedback since.

I checked in zoneminder 1.25.0, the URL hasn't changed yet, i.e. you can still use it like:
http://<zm>/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=single&monitor=1&scale=100&auth=<authkey>&connkey=<connkey>&rand=<randnum>

That &rand key seems to change after a certain time, I checked again today by using a URL I saved from yesterday and I can no longer view the image. I can, however, use a new rand key from today (i.e. just replacing that &rand=...)