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Well, i plan to use ZM for couple of my relative's businesses, thats how i got into ZM to begin with (being linux geek and all) So seeing how people complain that performance goes waaay down when using several cameras, it made me think about how to improve it's performance. Also i did a lot of GPGPU ...

So if disk IO is really the bottleneck, i am guessing there are only two real ways to improve performance substantially: 1. Upgrade HDDs to some fast SCSI units in some fast RAID config (using PCI-e of course and not the ancient PCI), or... 2. Spit out the images in some form of compressed format ...

What would be useful though if you have looked at macie k code is an easier to implement version of this for most people to install as a viewer. i am sorry, i didn't quite understand this sentence if mmx optimization had massively improved speed, i have a feeling that implementing same parts on GPU ...

Thanks for reply Phil, i got a chance to briefly look at the code. BTW it's written quite well, but it certainly doesn't help that there are very few comments ;) What is the priority for the project optimization? Is it mostly bug fixing? Or there is a good effort put forward to optimize ZM? I'd give ...

Hi I am new to ZM and haven't got hardware/software set up yet, however I'd like to do most of research beforehand. I've been reading threads that people experience quite a drop in performance the more cameras they use. What i was wondering is whether or not anyone had profiled to see where the ...

Hi I read people's posts saying that mpeg4 support is expected in the (not so near) future, but i was wondering what seems to be the holdup ? I deal with 3d accelerators (GPUs) and it would be an interesting challenge to write a hardware accelerated decoder for mpeg4 streams and incorporate it into ...

Hi Thanks for help I understand that it's just a hobby project, but is there a step by step documentation about how to install and configure ZM (i am not even talking about using it) I tried to follow the debian short doc along with the "Install" section of the main doc, but ended up with non ...

getting the following message after installing ZM on my ubuntu system using documentation for Debian, with only reservation that i compiled the code from source, as the apt way didn't work (needs some older packages that are no longer available) : Warning: mysql_pconnect() [function.mysql-pconnect ...

just like subject says

They have a 4-port card with various cameras
(http://64.70.236.169/ the link to their products)

Anyone tried those? any expectations?

Thanks
Alex

hey , do you think that the rpm package will work on debian?
(by means of alien generating .deb)

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Alex

hey alex, just saw your post
i am also in toronto, and also need to figure out how to use zoneminder. Planning to do it this weekend

Keep in touch
Alex

So does the fact that AXIS 205/206 supports mjpeg format, help ZM in utilizing and requiring less resources due to camera performing the compression, or am i confused?

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Alex

Thanks for the replies guys So if i plan to go beyond 4 cameras i should get not network cameras but video cameras with capture card/cards (as i imagin 5+ cameras would require more than one card) What budget solution with capture cards would you recommend and would work the best with ZM in terms of ...

Hi guys I've tried to search through the site/forum and learned a bit about the ZM, however i still have questions I want to deploy a survaillence system to monitor activity in a startup (pizza eatery) so my plan, abstractly put, is to have about 4 cameras (i plan to use d-link DCS900 for well ...