Watching a camera not with a browser while running ZM

u238 · Post by **u238** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:15 pm

Hi all,
My ZM is up&running successfully, but I need to watch a camera in fullscreen while ZM is running, to watch what is happening in that moment... when I try with xawtv it works, but the video is "fluttering" all time, I think it is so why ZM is switching che channel continuously... is there a utility that I can use?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:20 pm

not at the moment the only way to view the image is via the web. I am looking at making a linux vb app that can view the stream from zm, but its a while off yet. The best option is for someone to write an app to get the images from shared mem but none of us are caperble at the mo

u238 · Post by **u238** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:40 pm

but in the browser in playes a stream.. right? ..than.. when I've a program that takes that stream and decode it... than I'm ok!
..Knows anyone what encoding/protocol uses zoneminder to stream the videos? i've tryed to play the stream with mplayer (cgi-bin/zms), but it says that the stream is not seekable... what does that mean?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:12 pm

you can play mpeg streams but you need to get the url correct. If you set in options to stream in mpeg then get the url that should play in an mpeg player. Normally zm streams mjpeg. You can write an app to play the mjpeg or mpeg streams

Post by **cordel** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:00 pm

Natively zms streams mjpeg, or you may install ffmpeg to give you the ability to stream mpeg.

Regards,
Cordel