Want to View@15fps, Record@3fps, & Dtect Motion

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FuriousGeorge
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Want to View@15fps, Record@3fps, & Dtect Motion

Post by FuriousGeorge »

I thought i had this working but there is a small problem...

Bandwidth isnt an issue for me, and I'd like to view at 15fps.

Disk Space, on the other hand, is an issue, so I would like to capture at 3fps.

It seems every mode has an issue for me.

Modect records at 15fps even with Frame Skip, and regardless I notice that it's not reliable, even after much tweaking. ZM has trouble identifying motion on any sort of consistent basis at 15fps. Even with the Blend %ge at 2 and the sensitivity set to high and fast.

As a result, events rarely last longer than a few seconds, so I get hundreds per hour, and worse, I miss large chunks, too.

I've been trying/wanting to use Mocord with a 60s segment threshold[/b]. I like the predictable size of event, and it doesn't matter how accurate the detection is. When the disk get's full I go through and delete the 1min events with < 3 alarm frames.

The problem with that is the moment motion is detected it jumps up to recording at 15fps, blowing through my entire HD in a few days.

Record is one mode that I would rather not use, as there is obviously then no way to easily filter out 'empty events' afterward.

Is there another way to achieve objective?
Last edited by FuriousGeorge on Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:02 pm, edited 2 times in total.
FuriousGeorge
Posts: 24
Joined: Fri May 02, 2008 7:48 am

Solved?

Post by FuriousGeorge »

I lowered the FPS/Alarm FPS to 3 on all feeds, and set up a duplicate just for viewing.

Then, I have an 'All' group, a 'Record' group, and a 'View' group.

I left my 'Record' group in 'Mocord' mode, and set up a filter to periodically go through and delete events with no action.

Does anyone see a problem with this? My load is much lower than when I was trying to detect motion at 15fps.
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