ZoneMinder streaming...

ScottishCpatain · Post by **ScottishCpatain** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:08 pm

Okay...

Well, I've got my rig running with 4 cameras now. Each are setup to stream a 640x480 image (apparently interlaced).

I'd like to use one of the video formats, rather then MJPEG.

However, every format I try, ether doesn't work (the media player just sits there doing nothing), or Firefox says I need a plug in that doesn't exist.

To this date, the only two formats I've ever seen work is MJPEG (Jpeg Streaming) or SWF, and SWF tends to lockup and stop displaying the video (probably because the server needs to be upgraded soon).

Has anyone had any sucsess with the Streaming options of ZoneMinder? If so, what settings did you use under "Images"?

-SC

Post by **cordel** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:19 pm

With mpeg checked:
avi, and swf both work fine for me.
Obviouly if you can't stream any formats from ffmpeg then something is not right with it.
What happens if you try to make a clip through it?

Corey

ScottishCpatain · Post by **ScottishCpatain** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:28 pm

I can generate video from it under ZM just fine as AVI, and it plays back as expected.

When streaming AVI, under Firefox it says I need to download a plugin, and then when I click on the plugins button, it says no suitable plugin could be found.

Under Internet Explorer, it just says "Windows Media Player" and never plays the live stream.

Also, changing the replay format to MPEG yeilds the quicktime icon with a ? on it, and that never plays ether.

I'd rather not use MJPEG, as it's slow as heck and consumes a great amount of bandwidth, even at low FPS. I'm also wanting to load the reply up in such a way that I have the controller bar from something like Quicktime to cycle through the movie (ZM's navigation bar doesn't really work that well).

-SC

Post by **cordel** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:38 pm

The only settings I have other than above are
ZM_FFMPEG_OUTPUT_OPTIONS -r 25

The only thing is you have to wait for MP to buffer the video

Thats why I don't use MP and use SWF.

Regards,
Corey

ScottishCpatain · Post by **ScottishCpatain** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:51 pm

Okay, I'm tracking it down slowly...

Using Mpeg, quicktime gives me the ?.

Apache's log says something like:

[Thu Nov 09 08:43:53 2006] [error] [client 10.0.0.83] MPEG1/2 does not support 20/1 fps, referer: <Zoneminder URL>

What does this mean? My cameras are setup for 10FPS Max, 30FPS Alarm. There's nothing else configured except -r 25 as you mentioned... Seems like a nonsensical message to me.

-SC

Post by **cordel** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:21 pm

That was a problem in ffmeg at some point they desided that they would not accept a fps of les that 20

what version of ffmpeg are you running?

ScottishCpatain · Post by **ScottishCpatain** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:26 pm

It's a CVS 2005/09/18 version from Ubuntu.

Basically, I just ran "apt-get source ffmpeg", and that's what it downloaded...

I've been trying to find an older version with no avail.

-SC

Post by **cordel** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:33 pm

You can use a newer version but you will need to apply the pacth on the wiki for ffmpeg.

ScottishCpatain · Post by **ScottishCpatain** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:42 pm

What patch? Been looking for a few minutes.

The closest thing I could find is on this page:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/1.22.2_Patches

Is that the patch, and all of it? Seems like an awefully small patch?

-SC

ScottishCpatain · Post by **ScottishCpatain** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:13 am

Okay, I can't find any patch that does what you say. The only patch I did find is already incorporated into ZM.

I've tried every format available for Quicktime. MP4, Mov, Mpeg, etc. MP4 actually appears to do something, but it never displays on the screen (as in, ffmpeg doesn't complain) on the client computer.

Is ZM streaming like simply broken or something? Because I'm not having an awful lot of luck getting this stuff to work. AVI streaming under WMP 10 doesn't do anything at all, it just sits there.

-SC

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:18 am

ffmpeg command set chnages with every version. In zm4ms i use 0.4.8 cos 0.4.9 is borked for jpegs.
zm streams quite fine for me in asf or flash, i have never tried any other format, but whatever format you use dont forget that the stream isnt comming form a file and ffmpeg expects this for some formats

emamirazavi · Post by **emamirazavi** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:49 am

Hi, my friends, I've got this problem too...
Can anybody help me?
everything is good but alone this problem's stopped my progress...

caseystone · Post by **caseystone** » Sat May 26, 2007 5:46 am

Sorry to reply to such an old post, but I'm having these same problems still.

I'm on ZM 1.22.3 on the Kubuntu distro from Bluecherry (which is Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS -- Dapper).

Here's the version info for ffmpeg.

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root@zoneminder:~# ffmpeg -version
FFmpeg version SVN-r7222, Copyright (c) 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration:  
  libavutil version: 49.1.0
  libavcodec version: 51.25.0
  libavformat version: 51.6.0
  built on Dec  5 2006 14:07:04, gcc: 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)
ffmpeg      SVN-r7222
libavutil   3211520
libavcodec  3348736
libavformat 3343872

Is it the low framerate issue? I capture at 8 fps.

Thanks.

-Casey