Events HLS Storage/Streaming Options

[crewman]

Hi everyone,

I'm working with ZoneMinder and I'm looking for an efficient way to store event recordings in HLS format, or any optimized method for streaming these recordings over cellular networks quickly, similar to how HLS works.

Has anyone implemented or found a reliable approach for this? Any recommendations or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

[iconnor]

Hi,

I'm not aware of anyone doing that, although maybe they will chime in.

It shouldn't be difficult to implement. I'm happy to help a bit, although if this is a commercial project, you might consider purchasing a more considerable chunk of mine and/or others time to assist.

[crewman]

Thank you for your reply! This is a project I’m working on for my company. We have a ZoneMinder server and we’re looking for a simpler way to access security recordings without giving users direct access to ZoneMinder.

What we’ve been doing so far is concatenating the events for a whole day and then converting the video to HLS with ffmpeg. However, this approach requires more storage space, and since we already save the events in MP4 format every 10 minutes, I’ve been exploring the possibility of directly saving the events as HLS streams to avoid the need for conversion with ffmpeg and the additional storage overhead.

I appreciate your help and any suggestions you may have!

[dougmccrary]

simpler way to access security recordings without giving users direct access to ZoneMinder.

Have you looked at the user restrictions available in ZM? That might be all you need.