eyeZm 1.2 available on app-store

jdhar · Post by **jdhar** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:47 pm

Hi all,

Just a quick update that v1.2 is now posted on app-store. Changelist below:

* H264 Streaming for live-feed viewing (first for ZM!)
* Each Server gets its own configuration options
* Servers can be enabled or disabled now
* Takes advantage of XML Plugin p2fs2
o Will still work with p2fs1 (some features disabled)
o Can view XML Plugin log directly from app (useful for debugging)
* Menu option to rate app in iTunes (thank you!)
* Improved help system with more info added
* Minor bug-fixes

H264 is the major addition. Note that there are certain system requires for this, so please read the H264 section on our help section before trying to use this. Since streaming H264 through HTTP-5 live streaming is a relatively new technology, bear with us if you are experiencing any issues. Just PM/Email support and we'll work with you to get it resolved!

Note: H264 is supported regardless of whether your cam supports it or not. We take whatever cam your ZM install supports, and transcode it to an H264 stream that creates a low-bandwidth stream which displays using iPhones native video viewing capabilities

v1.3 is slated for around end of year, which will finally include Montage View and a few other goodies that have been requested. Thanks for downloading!

DREMA · Post by **DREMA** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:10 am

I just updated the app and I'm testing the h264 capabillity, I''ll post my thought tomorrow.

I was hoping for a montage view

Excellent work Jai Dhar!

jdhar · Post by **jdhar** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:18 am

DREMA wrote:I just updated the app and I'm testing the h264 capabillity, I''ll post my thought tomorrow.

I was hoping for a montage view

Excellent work Jai Dhar!

Montage is coming for sure in the next release; we had to get this out since people were having issues with MJPEG streaming on really really slow networks... it was either that, or wait longer to release with Montage..

Make sure you read the requirements on setting up H264. You basically need to fulfill the zmstreamer, ffmpeg and httpsegmenter requirements before streaming H264.

apbb2 · Post by **apbb2** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:41 pm

jdhar wrote:Make sure you read the requirements on setting up H264. You basically need to fulfill the zmstreamer, ffmpeg and httpsegmenter requirements before streaming H264.

I upgraded the XML plugin with no issues and it is running great. No issue like last time Jai. I am sure you are much happier than I am about that.

I thought I saw instructions for installing the above somewhere here. Does anyone have the link? I cannot find it.

jdhar · Post by **jdhar** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 6:35 am

apbb2 wrote: I upgraded the XML plugin with no issues and it is running great. No issue like last time Jai. I am sure you are much happier than I am about that.

I thought I saw instructions for installing the above somewhere here. Does anyone have the link? I cannot find it.

Our online help guide is the most valuable source of information for eyeZm and the XML Plugin. Visit http://eyezm.com/help/?ver=current for more information.

For installation specifically, view the README file included with the XML Installer, or you can visit here: http://eyezm.com/plugins/README_r3203

Glad to hear you were able to install successfully!

DREMA · Post by **DREMA** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:06 pm

Ok I'm tryning to test this, I'm only missing the "HTTP Segmenter installed"
What packages or confs I need to get that?

jdhar · Post by **jdhar** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:13 pm

DREMA wrote:Ok I'm tryning to test this, I'm only missing the "HTTP Segmenter installed"
What packages or confs I need to get that?

The httpsegmenter can be obtained from the XML Plugin installer package. If you already have the XML Plugin, you don't need to re-install it, but just get the latest package (http://eyezm.com/plugins/zm_xml_p2fs2_r3211.tar.gz) and run make; make install in the httpsegmenter directory.

The httpsegmenter is currently expecting the ffmpeg libraries to be built as shared libs. For this, you would have had to compile ffmpeg with the --enable-shared option. If you haven't done this yet, I recommend removing all of the ffmpeg libraries from your system (libav*, libswscale etc..), and then rebuilding ffmpeg with --enable-shared.

PM me if you have any issues.

DREMA · Post by **DREMA** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:32 pm

Uhhhhhhh!! The h264 streaming is pretty awesome!! The live view es VERY fluid now, and with little lose of quality, also it doesn't seems to be resource hungry.

Excellent work, I'll deploying it on my zm boxes.

jdhar · Post by **jdhar** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:35 am

DREMA wrote:Uhhhhhhh!! The h264 streaming is pretty awesome!! The live view es VERY fluid now, and with little lose of quality, also it doesn't seems to be resource hungry.

Excellent work, I'll deploying it on my zm boxes.

Since no one has done something similar with ZM/iphone/live-streaming, it took us quite a bit of research and testing to get it working, so I'm glad it's working well for you (after sorting through the ffmpeg pains)!

jdhar · Post by **jdhar** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 7:30 am

In case anyone is interested in H264 support with eyeZm, our User Guide has been updated with a much more thorough description of H264 support and installation: http://eyezm.com/help/?ver=current&sec=h264

DREMA · Post by **DREMA** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:08 pm

Since no one has done something similar with ZM/iphone/live-streaming, it took us quite a bit of research and testing to get it working, so I'm glad it's working well for you (after sorting through the ffmpeg pains)!

Yeah, excellent work man, and it wasn't a pain, it's pretty straight foward, also there're many guides here to accomplish a ffmpeg+x264+zm_svn.

Now, if someone gets to stream on h264 on the browser or a new and nice desktop app, that would improve ZM a loooot!

jdhar · Post by **jdhar** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:25 am

We have an RSS feed up for sending out more detailed and frequent updates to those who are interested: http://eyezm.com/rssfeed.xml

In the interest of not spamming the forum too much, we will only post new releases of eyeZm here so people can shoot out any issues for others to see (and resolutions). Otherwise, please use the RSS feed for minor updates!

Thanks, and happy holidays!

Andre81 · Post by **Andre81** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:24 pm

Just downloaded this app...

great job jdhar, great job!

Andrea

apbb2 · Post by **apbb2** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:50 pm

Hi Jai,

First install is still working flawlessly, but just tried to get another one going and having one issue. I figured we would hash it out here so others may see.

Have 1.24.2 installed on Ubuntu 9.10. I had to upgrade FFmpeg which seemed to go well.

All setup correctly on the iPhone but when I try to playback events, I see the frame that you display but EyeZM will not playback the event.

Here is the instructions i used to upgrade FFmpeg: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... tcount=967

I installed the FFmpeg portion of this post plus the x264 support. I did not install any of the optional products.

Any suggestions?

jdhar · Post by **jdhar** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:35 pm

apbb2 wrote: All setup correctly on the iPhone but when I try to playback events, I see the frame that you display but EyeZM will not playback the event.

The best way to debug events not showing is to take a look at the logs we have available, and there are 3: Apache log, XML Log and the eyeZm application log. For XML Logging information, see our User-guide (http://eyezm.com/help/?ver=current), under the Troubleshooting section.

If you can paste your apache access/error log and the XML Log (when you enable debugging), that will shed some light on your issue. If you enable XML Logging and log-to-file option, you can access the log directly from eyeZm too.