Keeping disk usage to a minimum

LeaAnthony · Post by **LeaAnthony** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:21 pm

I've got ZM running on a server with 200G partition for the data. It has filled up very quickly because of the necessity to record for most of the day. Even though we go through and manually delete events, it seems that the auditor isn't working that well, even though there is no errors in the logs. What I'm after is to be able to get ZM to ffmpeg every event at the end of the day and have it in an archive for review. Is this possible? I'd be interested to hear from other users...

SyRenity · Post by **SyRenity** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:17 pm

Hello.

I'm working on a script, which will be run via the ZM filters system, and will compress the JPG's to MPG, removing the JPG's. The problem is, that I need to modify ZM to support these MPG's, meaning, it will recognize that the video was converted and playback it accordingly. It's under works, but will be eventually completed.

When it done, I will submit this script to the contrib. forum.

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:12 pm

You can create filters that run custom scripts. It wouldn't necessarily be at the end of the day but your script could do the video conversion and any tidying up for events as they were created.

Phil

gnuorder · Post by **gnuorder** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:05 am

How are the filters actually run?

Post by **zoneminder** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:48 am

The zmfilter.pl script periodically runs any saved filters and executes any actions those filters are defined to execute. To make a filter run automatically just 'save' it and check one or more of the boxes depending on what you want it to do.

Phil

gnuorder · Post by **gnuorder** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:11 am

Yes, I found another thread on the subject of why they dont run, the one about missing mime::something. I think that was my problem too. My disk is far from full so I will have to make some other script to test it.