Hex wrote:Gentlemen, forgive me for being new to the ZoneMinder (i.e. asking stupid questions), but how do I exactly use this in an already compiled version, such as the one used in Ubuntu (from reps)?
I have a camera with an mjpegb (yuvj422p) stream that I can view with ffmpeg/ffplay. Since using mjpeg gives me twice as good fps than using a static jpg path, I'd like to give gertjan's script a try. Thank you for not hitting me with a brick here
Be asured, i wont start hitting people with bricks Unfortunately you cannot use this version i made with a precompiled version, you'll have to build from source yourself and use my version of the remote camera support.
You can also try the latest test version which now has ffmpeg as a monitor type, see above for the link:
zoneminder wrote:
I thought you might be interested that the latest release candidate for 1.24.0 now includes an ffmpeg monitor type which essentially implements a similar process to that described above in that any path can be assigned and that is passed directly to ffmpeg for processing. Please see the last post in this thread for details. Thanks to gertjan for his original post which was part of the inspiration for this.
Thank you for replying. I've successfully compiled 1.24.0, but I have trouble setting it up (mysql, etc.) - not really such an advanced user as I wish to be. I'll read through the documentation and will try to set it up. Starting to think that it's easier to use Windows (oh no! ).
zoneminder wrote:I thought you might be interested that the latest release candidate for 1.24.0 now includes an ffmpeg monitor type which essentially implements a similar process to that described above in that any path can be assigned and that is passed directly to ffmpeg for processing. Please see the last post in this thread for details. Thanks to gertjan for his original post which was part of the inspiration for this.
Also I submitted a patch to ffmpeg to permit urls with authentication of the form of user:pass@hostname/path to be correctly authenticated which should fix some of the issues described in earlier posts. The patch has now been accepted and should be available in the latest ffmpeg via svn.
Had time to do a first test today, it's looking great and much easier this way. I'll try a few of our camera's the coming time.
extract from change log 1.24.1
>...MPEG cameras, MPJPEG cameras, video files or basically anything that ffmpeg will understand
since ffmpeg understands h.264, will we be able to use cards which can hardware encode in h.264 and save it to disc in that format ?
Unfortunately you cannot use this version i made with a precompiled version, you'll have to build from source yourself and use my version of the remote camera support.