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I have a camera that's sent to capture 1 frame every 10 seconds for eight hours at a time in continuous recording mode. That works great by itself, but I'd also like to link this camera to another one so that when the second camera alarms the first one records at its best rate for, say, 30 seconds ...

There doesn't seem to be any way to control the playback speed (e.g. real, 10x, 50x, etc) in the event viewer - is that right? It also seems like the playback speed for an event is set when the event is captured, and you can't change it after the fact. Is that right too? I have a camera that's set ...

I have a camera, call it 'A', that I've set up in Modect mode and that works fine. I get events when motion occurs, and all is happy. I have two other cameras, B and C, that I want to have record whenever A detects motion. B and C don't do any motion detection themselves. Foolish question #1 ...

After more surfing, it looks like the EasyCap002 is the only way to go - there's a somewhat active (one poor guy is doing all the work!) driver project on SourceForge and some people have had some success getting it to work with ZM. However even the driver's author says, when speaking of ZM, "... it ...

SpareTimeGizmos wrote:I've found a couple that are attractive (or at least cheap)

Found another one - the CL-UVAA-4CH, as little as $6 (wow!!!) on eBay, shipped from HK. There are actually several, the CVSA-409, the Swan SW-241, and more that are probably all the same ICs inside.

Bob

Can anyone recommend a 4 port USB frame grabber that works with ZM? I've found a couple that are attractive (or at least cheap) - The VideoSecu 4 (about $38) The the 4eyeGrab (about $78) but I've no idea whether they work with Linux or even what chip(s) are in these gizmos. BTW, email me if you want ...