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Maybe I'll try to bring up the pixels. Maybe 1/2 instead of 1/4 the size, see what happens.

Yes, I did intend to scale it down, under advice of @burger. He/she also put that suggestion into the "dummies" wiki article. So I'm a dummy in this kinda stuff, I admit it. I do what I'm told to do by folks who know better.

Here's the result of ffprobe comparison: Passthrough video Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuvj420p(pc, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 1520 kb/s, 22.04 fps, 100 tbr, 90k tbn, 60 tbc (default) Encoded video Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661 ...

Thanks mikb. In the Optional Encoder Parameters box the only entry there is crf. The first three lines are # commmented out explanations.

Using v1.36.33. I am using Monitor / Storage /Encode so that I can get date/time stamp on my videos, not just live and thumbnails. Which does work. Output is h264 and Encoder is libx264. However, when I view event videos, the quality is not nearly that of what it was with Camera Passthrough. I did ...

In the list of videos under Console, monitor name, almost all of my vids say in the "Cause" column "continuous" Nothing is happening when I play the vid. Does that mean it's recording continuously? I have motion detection zones setup. So I would think only motion would trigger a recording. How to I ...

"set resolution to be lower than the actual stream (e.g. if you have a 2K stream, set it to 320x240 or 640x480." My camera stream is 1920x1080, so I scaled down my resolution in Source to 640 x 480. But then I discovered I wasn't getting any more recordings. I did a check of my zoneminder service ...

[*] set camera in zm to passthrough (not decode) (must be h264, not h265). I can find all of the other recommended settings but this one. Where can I find? Thx! [edit] Found it! Console / Source / Storage :oops: Thanks for referring to the "Dummies" in the wiki, OP, most helpful stuff in there!

Hello, thank you for creating ZM! I'm looking for documentation for ver 1.36.33. The screens and tabs items in my installed and running ZM don't match what is shown on https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io. [edit} In particular, I'd like to have a full description and implications of using the Functions ...

Thanks for that. CPU remains the same, 32%. I'll watch disk, hope as my daily clean-ups run that storage utilization goes down. Is there some place that explains what each of these settings does -- and the trade-off for disabling, or for other options within? There seem to be hundreds of options ...

Andyrh, I found, set the settings per your guidance. See attached shot to confirm nothing else needed. CPU is still steady at 32%, no reduction there, but RAM use is now lower, went from 363MiB to 244MiB, so also an improvement. Thanks very much!!

Thanks very much @Andyrh! I searched for where/how to set camera passthrough (haven't found it yet) , but found the Tips section at https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Dummies_Guide. I applied the tip to limit analysis FPS 1-2 FPS. That immediately reduced zmc CPU from 40-50% to a steady 32%, sometimes down ...

Hello, I have ZM 1.26.25 running on a new, fairly beefy (for Linux) laptop, monitoring only one camera. ZM brings it to its knees to the point that I can do almost nothing else on the laptop. Core i5-1135G7 2.4Ghz, 12GB RAM, TB hard drive. LinuxMint Mate 20.3. I've had to resort to stopping ZM via ...

Hello, I found a post from 2010 in which someone asked if ZM could be installed in a shared hosting environment. One reply said yes, the other no, but it could be done on a VPS. I'd like to refresh the topic, since the question was asked nine years ago, and things may have changed with ZM since then ...