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Never mind, this appears to be a VLC player issue. Playing mpg files shows the same problem, but they work fine in Dragon player

Hi, I had to reinstall Kubuntu 16.04 on one of my PCs. I reinstalled zoneminder per: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Server_16.04_64-bit_with_Zoneminder_1.30.4_the_easy_way However, when I went to test my camera's video stream, per https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Amcrest_QCam => rtsp://<username ...

Confirmed, it does.

Putting the camera on static IP is fine so long as it supports it, which I expect it will.

Hello, My zoneminder installation had been working fine for weeks, and then it suddenly started returning a blue screen. I tried rebooting the PC and power cycling the camera but it had no effect. I could see the Amcrest Android app still worked so didn't look like a camera issue. I then changed ...

http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html
=>
How can I stop ZoneMinder filling up my disk?

Seems to work fine.
Consider this thread closed.

I ended up installing zoneminder on a different PC so I had more disk space, so I used: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Server_16.04_64-bit_with_Zoneminder_1.30.2_the_easy_way and can confirm this worked for me. It avoided the file permission issues I had with http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en ...

It looks like:
http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html
=>
How can I stop ZoneMinder filling up my disk?

describes how to limit amount of stored video (images), so looks like I am good on this.

/var/cache/zoneminder/events/2/17/04/29/08/00/05/

yes I see captured jpgs here. Thanks.

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Serv ... e_easy_way

I'll try this if I need to star over for some reason, but at this point, I believe everything I need is working.

OK, now that I have the record feature enabled, I see that the webpage with the live camera feed now has events with: ID Name Time Secs Frames Score and clicking on the event takes me to the archived video. So I'll just need to figure out how to configure for the desired number of hours of footage ...

So it would appear that: Options => Paths => DIR_IMAGES is where images are recorded when the zoneminder function is set to "record". http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userguide/options/options_paths.html On my system, this is "images". Presumably this is the path relative to the web root ...

Ah, the Amcrest Quick start guide doesn't mention the direct web interface. It only mentions using www.amcrest.view and Android/iOS apps. I found it buried in the user manual chapter 5. And, it only works in Windows with IE it appears. But I was able to set the frame rate to 5 fps that way. The ...

So setting General => Maximum FPS to 5 causes the image to have significant issues with freezing. Sometimes 10 seconds or more. Also, I see numerous errors in the log. When I return Maximum FPS to the default (blank), image updates are smooth, and the log is much cleaner. I'll probably try setting ...