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I did find this forum post which looks like it would work for me: https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=22781 The basic idea is to run zoneminder on a low-res stream - that will store events and low-def video at much lower consumption. Then use a script to continuously record using vlc (or ...

Hi all I got ZM 1.32 running on Ubuntu 18.04. Quite impressed so far. I'm trying to tweak a few things - hoping to record live video onto my SSD and once a day migrate the files to the much larger HD so it doesn't have to run 24x7. Right now my thought is to mount a HD folder inside the recording ...

After a long hiatus, I finally upgraded my server to 18.04 and returned to zm and the solution hit me - somehow while browsing the live camera in VLC and looking at the codec information I noticed it was v.265 and not v.264 - I hadn't noticed this before. Down a few levels in the camera ...

Thanks for the response. I was hoping to do capture at 5MP - possibly at low frame-rates, just in case I need to pick up details like license plates. But at this point I don't think it's a resolution problem - I've tried many combinations of camera resolution, display resolution, without luck so far ...

Hi all, First time using ZoneMinder and have been struggling for quite a few hours to get any kind of display. My system Basics: ZM: 1.30.4 OS: Ubuntu 16.04 server (LAMP w/desktop) Camera: AVTECH DGM-5406P Firefox: 57.0.1 Followed the basic installation instructions - using MySql and can query the ...