Hiding the red motion-detection overlay when viewing stills?

candlerb · Post by **candlerb** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:27 am

Sorry if I'm being obtuse here, but when viewing still images, is it possible to turn off the overlayed red motion detection blob? It makes it a bit hard to see which frames have the best facial images.

I can export the whole lot and then see xxx-capture.jpg versus xxx-analyse.jpg, but just wondered if this is possible within the viewer.

Thanks... Brian.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:29 am

in options untick the 'outline motion' tickbox and it will stop

James

Post by **zoneminder** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:42 am

This will be possible in the individual frame view in 1.22.0.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:43 am

Phil did you look into the possibilty of having the recorder not record these frames but zms send them If passed in url)

James

Post by **zoneminder** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:45 am

jameswilson wrote:in options untick the 'outline motion' tickbox and it will stop

This will stop them being created but wouldn't allow you to view unhighlighted ones if you already have them. I've just done a 1.22.0 mod that lets you click on the imaage in the frame view and which toggles between the two images.

candlerb · Post by **candlerb** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:45 am

jameswilson wrote:in options untick the 'outline motion' tickbox and it will stop

Thanks for the reply. Do you mean this setting under the 'Config' tab?

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ZM_CREATE_ANALYSIS_IMAGES 	Whether to create analysed alarm images with motion outlined (?)

Actually I'm happy for the analysed images to be created. Since both analysed and non-analysed images are stored, I just wondered if it was possible to view the non-analysed ones.

Post by **zoneminder** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:51 am

jameswilson wrote:Phil did you look into the possibilty of having the recorder not record these frames but zms send them If passed in url)

I looked into it. The problem basically is that zms gets the images from the shared memory buffers. The only thing that puts them in there is the capture daemon, the analysis daemon reads them out as zms does. So the highlighted images are not actually stored anywhere except in the files.

To view 'live' highlighted images (which I admit is a cool feature, though I'm not sure how useful) would require a secondary buffer maintained by zma which zms could dip into whenever it had something to look at. Either that or get zma to write the images back, but there's no guarantee that zms would not already have got the original image out by then.

So not impossible, but not all that simple, and I must stop thinking about it now before it's too late as I can feel my feature urges starting to well up and if I'm not careful I'll spend the next few days putting it in!

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:59 am

STOP dont put it in lol
NOt overly uselful
The only uactula use i have thought of is to aid live setup of detection.
Plus it would look awesome in the viewer but it would have to be selectable as you might not want it on all the time

James

candlerb · Post by **candlerb** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:03 am

zoneminder wrote:This will stop them being created but wouldn't allow you to view unhighlighted ones if you already have them. I've just done a 1.22.0 mod that lets you click on the imaage in the frame view and which toggles between the two images.

Perfect. I'm looking forward to trying out the next version, although 1.21.4 is working so well I am currently loathe to mess with it

ZoneMinder is wonderful. I'm surprised that more webcam driver sites don't link to it, when they typically link to 'motion'.

Cheers... Brian.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:07 am

i know, i looked at motion before i found zm, and am still amazed by everyione ramping on about it when zm wipes the floor with it (my opion blah blah) Is there anyhing that motion does better??

In fact is there anythig better??

James

Post by **zoneminder** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:10 am

candlerb wrote:ZoneMinder is wonderful. I'm surprised that more webcam driver sites don't link to it, when they typically link to 'motion'.

If you can point me at them, I'll drop them a friendly email

Though to be fair, motion was first I think.

candlerb · Post by **candlerb** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:30 pm

zoneminder wrote:If you can point me at them, I'll drop them a friendly email

I just sent friendly E-mails for these two:
http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/linux/webcam.html
http://www.vanheusden.com/setpwc/

I couldn't find an E-mail for http://www.cs.umu.se/~c00ahs/exjobb/phi ... rking.html but it seems to be old anyway.

These are out of my bookmarks - I was specifically looking for pwc information, as I have a Quickcam 4000. (I don't recommend this BTW, as it cannot be set any slower than 5fps and your machine spends most of its time receiving USB data. Buy a cheap IP camera instead. I might try the DABS value one at about 50 quid...)

Post by **zoneminder** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:06 pm

Excellent, thanks very much for that!