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My customer wants a system with 12 analog cams. I proposed a system with a 500 GB HD, 2GB RAM DDR2 800MHz Based on the spreadsheet from the ZM Wiki I calculate 500 GB will be enough for a 12 cam system with 12 up to 15fps each at resolution 320X240 the boards I plan to use are http://store ...

I'm making some analysis about the performance, costs and reliability of zoneminder compared with conventional DVRs. I don't have any experience with that appliances and also with zoneminder although I have read a lot about them. I ask to you if zoneminder is better than DVR or even in some tasks ...

softland wrote:Hi,
Have you configured the "cambozola.jar" file?
I had the same error but this just solved

I didn't anything with .jar file. I just used the ant to make it.
How can I set up cambozola.jar file ?

I set up my cameras to modect mode. they're working but they don`t record the whole event. I'm looking for an option to increase the time recording when an event happen. Is there any option for it ?

I have done some experiences with events storage. I'm a newbee with jpeg and movie compression. is mpeg-4 more compressible than just a lot of jpeg files in an event ? what zoneminder's users usually do with event images ? Do they stay the events just as jpeg files or it's normal to convert to a ...

I have seen the memory usage of /usr/sbin/apache2 is growing fast. Something occurs which triggers that issue. The memory usage grows 0.5 % each 30 seconds. My system has 2GB RAM. In almost a hour the process grew up to 27,5% I restarted apache and then it came back to normal memory usage. I'm ...

volkan2k wrote:try this one

you have to set the camera resolution and the monitior resolution at the same one

I'm using only analog cameras. They have 420L each.

I built using ant a .jar file from cambozola, then I tried to install it copying to /var/www/zm/ the cambozola.jar where my zoneminder installation resides. I filled the path information on zoneminder in options panel on the specific field. I'm using firefox to access zoneminder. I'd like to know ...

I'm using debian lenny and I have compiled zm 1.23 debian's source package. After configuration now it works well but I can use just with m-jpeg. I can't use stream. I installed the binary ffmpeg from apt-get and other software dependencies for zm compilation. then I did the compilation of zm 1.23 ...

[quote="Chuck D"]Debain Etch is going to need a whole bunch of dependencies to get zoneminder installed.. Been there... done that.. Try using ubuntu or kubuntu and you will have much better luck.. go look for 1.24 install DVD and you will find a free install on kubuntu 8.04.. It is not the latest 1 ...

I tried to compile ZM 1.24 on debian etch. During the checks made by ./configure it showed me dependencies fails.
I have searched for a list with libraries and packages required for zm compilation. is there any ?

I'd like to connect 11 analog cameras using 2 boards like these PV-149 http://store.bluecherry.net/Provideo_PV_149_p/pv-149.htm in same machine. Can I have performance issues ? What are the minimum requirements in memory, processor and disk space for zoneminder in this situation ? I have never found ...

I want to put 4 cams in a 4 port PV-149 board and 7 cams in a 8 port PV-149 board in a same motherboard. Could I have performance issues ? I`m planning to buy a new computer with intel processor like C2D ou quad core. The machine will be dedicated for survaillance system. did someone had problems ...