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And one more data point: switching to libvlc over ffmpeg generates the following error: 06/29/20 20:24:51.121978 zmc_m4[843].INF-zm_libvlc_camera.cpp/160 [Priming capture from rtmp://192.168.100.20/bcs/channel0_sub.bcs?channel=0&stream=1&user=admin&password=password] 06/29/20 20:24:51.168440 zmc_m4 ...

OK, I turned up the logging. Here is the issue: 06/29/20 20:15:36.395419 zmc_m4[686].INF-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/202 [Priming capture from rtmp://192.168.100.20/bcs/channel0_sub.bcs?channel=0&stream=1&user=admin&password=password] 06/29/20 20:15:36.429367 zmc_m4[686].DB1-zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp/365 ...

I also tried the suggestion(s) found here: https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder/issues/811 This includes both forcing TCP and setting a large buffer size. Unfortunately it did not resolve the issue. Any help would be very much appreciated; I have a lot of these cameras and would hate to see them ...

Can you please post your configuration? I am not able to get RTMP working with zone minder. The URL works with VLC but fails in zone minder... Using a packet sniffer and it seems it is trying to use the RTSP port, even with the RTMP url (even manually adding the correct port number to the URL does ...

I am still wrestling with this. Any other suggestions? I can access the URL using VLC which is a good sign, so I tried switching over to VLC lib. Initially I was not having much lunch but after manually installing some dependencies I am getting the following errors in the log: 2020-06-21 21:03:49 ...

Thank you for the response. This is the URL I am using (it works using VLC so I know the URL is good and the credentials work): rtmp://192.168.100.17/bcs/channel0_sub.bcs?channel=0&stream=1&user=admin&password=password The source is ffmpeg, method TCP. Resolution is set correctly for the sub stream ...

I have a few Reolink cameras I am adding to a system running zoneminder v1.34.15 on a Debian sever. I was having terrible image quality issues ('smearing') and found this post that perfectly described the issue: https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=29143&p=114201&hilit=RTMP#p114201 So ...