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Posted: **Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:35 pm**

Hi,

I am using zm 1.24.2 on openSUSE 11.1 (MP-version) with an ABUS eyseo tvip 115500 camera.

I have several questions:

I would like to use the H.264 stream, but ZM cannot decode it whatsoever. I have seen in other posts that x264 is a planned feature. I would be happy to assist testing

I am now using the MPEG4 stream and it works well. The only thing is that I get really lots of RTSP errors like this in the log:
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zmc_m1[18094]: WAR [Unexpected format RTSP interleaved data, dumping 95 bytes]
zmc_m1[18094]: WAR [32: 52 54 53 50 2f 31 2e 30 20 34 35 35 20 4d 65 74 68 6f 64 20 4e 6f 74 20 56 61 6c 69 64 20 69 6e]
```
I have no idea what they mean (Google / ZM Wiki & Forum search came up empty). Is it safe to ignore these errors? Can I configure ZM to suppress these errors (if they are meaningless)? Maybe we can make ZM more tolerant with regard to RTSP... ?

It seems like ZM is recording all fine, zmc keeps running for very long before crashing (up to several days).

BTW, I updated ffmpeg to 0.6 but the RTSP errors did not change. I checked that zmc is dynamically linked against ffmpeg...

Thanks a lot,
Schlomo

PS: Really great piece of software!

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:55 pm**

Hello schlomo,

I am using an Abus TVIP71550. With your entry in the Wiki
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Abus
I thought I would have the camera up and running in a minute.
But I had no luck.

Platform is Ubuntu server 10.04 lts.
I installed zoneminder with apt-get install zoneminder.

I can connect to the camera with VLC Player using h264/mpeg4/mjpeg without any problems.
URL for mpeg4 -> rtsp://<cam>:554/video.mp4

ffmpeg starts to receive the stream, but after a few seconds it drops all frames.
I even downloaded the latest ffmpeg to test.

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root@srv1:/home/chris/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-0.6.1# ./ffmpeg -i rtsp://192.168.119.50:554/video.mp4 /home/chris/video.avi
FFmpeg version 0.6.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jan 21 2011 18:43:48 with gcc 4.4.3
  configuration: 
  libavutil     50.15. 1 / 50.15. 1
  libavcodec    52.72. 2 / 52.72. 2
  libavformat   52.64. 2 / 52.64. 2
  libavdevice   52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
  libswscale     0.11. 0 /  0.11. 0
[rtsp @ 0x28fc420]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, rtsp, from 'rtsp://192.168.119.50:554/video.mp4':
  Metadata:
    title           : QStream
    comment         : QStreaming Media
  Duration: N/A, start: -2.-66667, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 1280x1024 [PAR 1:1 DAR 5:4], 15 fps, 15 tbr, 90k tbn, 15 tbc
Output #0, avi, to '/home/chris/video.avi':
  Metadata:
    ISFT            : Lavf52.64.2
    Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 1280x1024 [PAR 1:1 DAR 5:4], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 15 tbn, 15 tbc
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame=   68 fps=  4 q=31.0 Lsize=     409kB time=7.07 bitrate= 473.9kbits/s dup=0 drop=75    
video:401kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 2.031157%
root@srv1:/home/chris/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-0.6.1#

Maybe I will get this working with a later firmware for the camera or a newer ffmpeg.

Until then I would like to use the JPEG images.

In the wiki you wrote "Of course also the MJPEG and JPEG variants can be used but require a much higher bandwith.".

I compared the 11550 and 71550 instruction manuals. There are basicallye the same. So I assume the software/firmware cannot differ very much.

I did not find any instruction on how to access the JPEG Files.
Maybe you can help me out.

Thanks!

regards
Chris

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:13 pm**

This looks interesting
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16060

My linux is also 64bit
Linux srv1 2.6.32-27-server #49-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:05:21 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:39 pm**

cle wrote: My linux is also 64bit

using ffmpeg on 32bit linux shows the same problem (dropping all frames after some seconds).

Posted: **Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:10 pm**

cle wrote:Hello schlomo,

I did not find any instruction on how to access the JPEG Files.
Maybe you can help me out.
Chris

On my 11550 camera the JPG path is /jpg/image.jpg, I found this out by checking the image path on the main page

Regards,
Schlomo

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:46 am**

schlomo wrote: On my 11550 camera the JPG path is /jpg/image.jpg, I found this out by checking the image path on the main page

This worked!!
Many Thanks!

Chris

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Unexpected format RTSP interleaved data, dumping 95 bytes

Unexpected format RTSP interleaved data, dumping 95 bytes