Record directly to mpeg or avi

skiller · Post by **skiller** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 5:56 pm

Hi, Is there any way to record to mpeg or avi without saving lots of jpgs to harddisk.
Currently I need to record 24/7 and I'm thinking to generate one mpg or avi per day.

Post by **zoneminder** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:21 pm

There is no technical reason why this could not be done, all the pieces are there already just not all joined together in the right way! The only issues I'd be worried about would be keeping the same file open all day and the difficulty in navigating around one giant MPEG file which could be hundreds of megs in size.

Phil,

skiller · Post by **skiller** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:24 pm

Ok maybe 1 file per hour, is there any way to do it, could you tell me howto?

TheWayne · Post by **TheWayne** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:14 am

Is anyone currently doing this ? I would like to record hour long video clips from my cameras and have them saved with a file in a format like MonitorID_MM_DD_YYYY_HH:MM.avi .

aot2002 · Post by **aot2002** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:13 am

why not just read up on the ffmpeg
here is the documentation link for the ffmpeg

http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ffmpeg-doc.html

now just setup zoneminder to execute a script for each camera every hr generating the jpegs collected in the directory....
then have zoneminder automatically remove the jpegs when done and name the file as you wish