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Posted: **Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:14 pm**

It seems whenever the FPS of this camera exceeds 1, I get a blue screen.
Is that to be expected? Shouldn't it be better?

Posted: **Sat Sep 21, 2013 1:59 pm**

I found out that this camera has two commands: One to take a snapshot and one to get streaming video either in H.264 or MJPEG mode.

I have zoneminder set up to take a snapshot every other second, because that's the maximum I seem to get reliably. I use this command:
/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr=admin&pwd=xyz&

For streaming video, this command can be used:
/cgi-bin/CGIStream.cgi?cmd=GetMJStream&usr=admin&pwd=xyz

The camera I believe first has to be put into the MJPEG mode before this will work..
http://192.168.1.11:88/cgi-bin/CGIProxy ... t&format=1

format=0 being H.264, and 1 is MJPEG..

The trouble is, I CANNOT get zoneminder to accept either MJPEG or H.264 output from the camera!
I tried Source: Remote, Source: Ffmpeg, and various URL's, but it either showed black or blue screen when previewed.

The camera comes with a plugin that works on Windows browsers and it allows for:
720P/10 FPS/2 MB
or even:
960P/10 FPS/4MB
modes. Therefore, if I could switch to using streaming video, things will be a lot better in terms of FPS..

Any help would be appreciated..
-turgut

Posted: **Sat Sep 21, 2013 6:47 pm**

This isn't a direct response to your question, but have you tried RTSP?

I you haven't, and want to, there's good and bad news

.

The good news is that you'll get a higher frame rate.
I have an FI9805W setup as follows (everything else is the default):

Zoneminder

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Source Type: Ffmpeg
Source Path: rtsp://username:password@ip_address:port/videoMain
Capture Width (pixels): 1280
Capture Height (pixels): 720

Camera | Video

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Stream Type: 0
Resolution: 720P
Bit Rate: 512K
Frame Rate: 25

Displayed frame rate when monitoring in Zoneminder, for me, is around 25fps. Visually it's not that (with Cambozola) although it is OK.

Now the bad news:

http://foscam.us/forum/fi9805w-can-t-ge ... t6980.html

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