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Hi all, I was finding if exist some IP cameras viewer, I tried viseon viewer but without luck also the ZM viewer but it makes ZM to do much work (CPU).

The ideas is to have a IP monitor for "x" nr. of cams (also megapix)a easy stable remotly real time streamer for windows or linux for each ip cams I have.


Regards.

J.

Have you try running ZM Viewer from another PC but locally???

yes, but as I said it makes ZM CPU to do a lot of work and the streaming is not realtime.

Would be the best stream the IP cameras directly from the cameras with an application like ZM viewer.

Regards.

If it's mjpeg streams, you can just write a simple html file with <img> tags pointing to the streams from each camera.

With firefox, you just go to that page and you get a montage from all the cameras, without adding any load to the server.

Yes of course but what about the stability of Firefox with one window opened and 20 or more cameras streaming at 20 fps?

I had experienced firefox max. 2 days stability and for this proyect I want ~90 stability.


Regards.

That is actually a valid concern - FF was rock solid with mjpeg streams in its earlier versions, but somewhere about v.2 they broke the mjpeg stream code. (It, close the stream or tab and it would continue to recieve and process the stream until the browser was restarted or crashed, leading to massive client pc loads)

I raised a bug and after 8 months finally got it closed, but still experience the odd crash when streaming mjpeg with ff.

Maybe look at a version of FF < 2.0, but 400fps combined will kill your client pc with mjpeg.

Hi, my idea is to create some frontend common application for linux/windows streamer (mjpeg,mpeg4) thant will connect directly to the cameras throught a simply : http://ipmycamera/stream.cgi
here Zm is beside.


I was surfing in internet and I saw a fantastic thing : opencv

http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/

Do you anybody try to do something with ZM and Opencv?


Regards.

Yes we have looked at OpenCV, ZM does not support it nor does is support any pluggable libraries for its detection engine.

ohh yes I understand that ZM is not compatible with Opencv but what I mean is only for streaming from the camera just a monitor application for "x" nr. of cameras.