Vertical colored bars/stripes with high res IP-camera's

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brononius
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Vertical colored bars/stripes with high res IP-camera's

Post by brononius »

Hey,

I'm running zoneminder on a ESXI enviroment. (SSD 8GB for OS, SATA 250GB for data, 8GB memory).
Next to it, I'm having 5 high res IP camera's from foscam (1Mega), and 2 old IP-camera's of WANscam.

The high res camera's are configured as rtsp
  • ffmpeg
  • modetect
  • rtsp://USER:PWD@1IP-ADDRESS:80/videoMain
  • 1280 / 720
  • 32 bit color
My 5 high res IP camera's have a lot of vertical colored bars in zoneminder. Even zoneminder sees this as movement.
When I look at the camera's with vlc, everthing seems fine.

In zoneminder, I've played with already a lot of settings over the last weeks (buffers, memory, resolutions...). But till today, I can't get it to work properly.
If anybody could point me to the right direction, this would be great...
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asker
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Re: Vertical colored bars/stripes with high res IP-camera's

Post by asker »

What do you mean by vertical bars?
Does it look like this: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... SP_streams

If so, its the infamous ffmpeg smudging problem
brononius wrote:Hey,

I'm running zoneminder on a ESXI enviroment. (SSD 8GB for OS, SATA 250GB for data, 8GB memory).
Next to it, I'm having 5 high res IP camera's from foscam (1Mega), and 2 old IP-camera's of WANscam.

The high res camera's are configured as rtsp
  • ffmpeg
  • modetect
  • rtsp://USER:PWD@1IP-ADDRESS:80/videoMain
  • 1280 / 720
  • 32 bit color
My 5 high res IP camera's have a lot of vertical colored bars in zoneminder. Even zoneminder sees this as movement.
When I look at the camera's with vlc, everthing seems fine.

In zoneminder, I've played with already a lot of settings over the last weeks (buffers, memory, resolutions...). But till today, I can't get it to work properly.
If anybody could point me to the right direction, this would be great...
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brononius
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Re: Vertical colored bars/stripes with high res IP-camera's

Post by brononius »

I've followed your link, and with changing the frame rates in the camera itself, it seems to hold. No more vertical bars anymore.
I've changed it to:
- Frame Rate: 3 (default 10)
- Key Frame Rate: 10 (default 30)

I'll keep an eye on it if nothing else give issues, but for the moment, it seems fine...

Thanks!
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