Network (IP) Camera Selection Criteria

homespy · Post by **homespy** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:48 pm

Hi,

I'm not able to find how Zone Minder uses network cameras (eg. does it look in a directory where the camera dumps its images, does it poll the camera, etc..). I haven't set anything up yet, but in the process of gathering all the hardware. I realize that many cameras were recommended in the forums, but I was wondering if someone can shed some light on how zone minder uses Network Cameras and what specific imaging methods it should support.

Thank you.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:12 pm

jpeg get!. it issues a http request to the camera in much the same way a browser would, as long as the cam supports jpeg or mpjpeg then you ok, mpeg is not currently supported

homespy · Post by **homespy** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 5:42 pm

Thanks for the quick reply. That answers my question.

homespy · Post by **homespy** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:14 am

In looking at Network Cameras, I noticed that most newer types support MPEG4 compression exclusively. Is MPEG4 support planed in the next release of ZM? Is there a current beta test for MPEG support that I can experiment with?

Thank you.

Post by **cordel** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:40 am

I know Phil plans to try to implement mpeg support at some point but it will not be the next release and what is available here is the most current code.
I suspect it will take a bit of work to do and might take some time.

Regards,
Corey

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