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On the main screen of the console, the date format looks a little off to me ("Friday 9th September" instead of "Friday, September 9th", even though it shows up in the preferred format in most other aspects of the interface). From the time I spent researching this, it sounds like this used to be in ...

I like this idea, but where the heck is "zm_config.php"?

How to export an event as a video file Interesting. I remember reading that article a few times before, but somehow I missed the "FFMPEG" configuration steps. Now, (after having completed those steps) I can see the "Video" button for various events (even though the "Export" button still does ...

Any updates on this? Does anyone know how to export a recorded video from ZoneMinder?

In which case you've got me stumped! If there is only one file system, with everything in it (All of your OS, files, and zoneminder's events) and it's only 8% full, then you have one (1) HUGE file system :) Simple, but not optimal setup. Yes. If this were put into a production environment, I'd ...

chal wrote:at the event there is the point video. There you have to create the video first.

i've done this with a filter over all events. (create video for all matches >> execute)

So, you're saying that a filter must be applied first before video can be exported? What is the procedure for doing this?

Any updates on this?

OK that looks good, but maybe you are not on the same page as ZoneMinder regarding "used" and "free" If you are trying to tell ZoneMinder to only use up to 8% of the disk -- then that would seem sensible for testing. But ... big but ... only if Zoneminder events are the ONLY THING on that disk ...

Is there any way to get around this? Yes. Set the filter up correctly next time! :) Sometimes it's better to submit the filter and see what it does before allowing it to execute . That way you find out what it's about to do before it does nothing/too much. Do you still have the filter settings you ...

In my tests of ZoneMinder, I set the program to purge data when the disk fills to a certain level. Unfortunately, instead of erasing the oldest data first and continuing on, it deleted everything that had been recorded up to that point for all the cameras! Is there any way to get around this?

I'm testing a ZoneMinder setup to see how well it'll work in a production enivroment. Because the only cameras I have to test with only work with Windows, I am trying to use Yawcam on a second computer to stream the video over the network in a way that ZoneMinder can work with. I set the output to ...

I've set up a ZoneMinder machine for testing and am having trouble exporting events. I have selected an event and brought up the export menu, but I can never get an actual video file to come through in the .zip file. Usually the file is just a few kilobytes in size and contains nothing more than an ...

i like the zoneminder idea what i am not keen on is the laptop part. The laptop hard drive was not designed to be under constant load. You will kill the hard drive fast. That is not something I had considered before, I will keep that in mind. You will see folks in the forums not speak that great ...

I'm thinking of upgrading an existing security setup to use with ZoneMinder. The current system has four standard definition cameras, a crappy 30fps PCi capture card, and proprietary software leeching off a desktop computer. Instead of buying a UPS, we are considering just using an old laptop as a ...