ZoneMinder Forums

george_s wrote:Sean, did you ever find that script to combine time lapse mpegs into a single large mpeg? Thanks for the time lapse suggestion, I've been wanting to do that. It'd really be handy to combine them together. Thanks. George

Sorry - it got wiped out. I'll rewrite it when I have some time...

I noticed that too. Probably some glitch to do with the non-integral frame rate. Anyway I was about to post a script I made a couple days ago to gather all the events and roll them into one giant time-lapse MPEG... but now I can't find it! I left it in the html/events directory.... does zoneminder ...

All
Active
Percent
0
0
100
100
255
0
0
Blobs
25
0
3
75
3
3
3
75
2
0
1
0

Can anyone share insight as to what differences might be relevant in YUV422 vs RGB24? I thought these were just different color spaces... how could choosing one over the other trigger a hard crash? Is there a significant difference in memory layout or such, which requires different handling of one ...

I thought you'd never ask! :) [advert] Squeezebox is my company's product - plays music over the network. If you have a music collection on your computer, and especially if you're into home wiring/networking/automation, then you need one. It's open source, with a community of enthusiasts much like ...

I didn't expect this to work, but I tried it and it seems to work fine! Some of my cameras are pointed out into the street. I have their zones set up to only trigger alarms when activity happens on my driveway / front yard. I'm not interested in cars driving by or what the neighbors are doing ...

Phil, I was seeing the exact same behavior with the livecd distro as well as my own install from a fresh mandrake 10.0 install (which used same version of everything on the livecd). I had all my cameras set to rgb24. Behavior happened irrespective of # of cameras. See above for full specs of mobo ...

With no monitors open, my load average is 0.2 to 0.3, and cpu usage is 8%

The load avg fluctuates quite a bit (cars going by; me opening and closing monitors) but I seem to recall it dropping a bit when I changed the pallette. But I wasn't keeping a real close eye on it... Right now with the 4 cameras going at 320x240, 5fps, the load avg is 0.48 I too would really like to ...

I am thrilled to report that Zoneminder has been running like a champ, non-stop, since last night when I changed the color pallete. 4 cams @ 320x240.

THANK YOU!

Fabulous software.

1hr 38 minutes and counting...new record... fingers crossed.

Ross, Thanks for the tip. This is the first advice I've ecnountered regarding the color pallette. So far, an astounding 31 minutes uptime after chaging from RGB24 to YUV422P. Let's see if it survives overnight. :) I'm not so experienced with video. Can anyone explain why choosing the wrong pallete ...

Also I see that the Linux Media Labs cards come with heatsinks attached (including the PCI bridge):

http://www.linuxmedialabs.com/Images/LMLBT44.gif

Perhaps they discovered that the BT878s just have a problem with burning up???

Yes but I had this with a different motherboard and different RAM too. And the problem went away for a relatively long time (1.5 hrs uptime compared to 5 seconds before the swap) immediately when I replaced the spectra8. It seems like a thermal problem, in that the frequency of crashes is clearly ...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I spoke too soon! This stupid thing is crashing again! It ran fine for an hour and half after I put the new card in, and then it rebooted. Then it rebooted again after 15 minutes. Now it's rebooting after about 1-5 minutes. The case has ...