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Did anybody get some of this camera family work with ZoneMinder?
aliexpress, 2MP-1080P-IP-Camera-Security-3MP-HD-Lens-P2P-Plug-and-Play-80m-Infrared-Night-Vision

I ordered 5 of these before doing my homework like checking the seller's reputation and reading more of these forum topics here...
I received the package today. The cameras look nice physically. The image quality could also be nice. But the software compatibility looks bad (it looks like it isn't really ONVIF compatible) and either the firmware is bugged or the SoC inside is way too slow to handle the streaming. I have some random dropouts and/or image corruptions even at 1024Kbps and I-Frame_Interval=2 which only gets worse as I increase these numbers (up until the point where it seems like the whole camera just froze for good). Although, it could be a problem with the software they sent me on the CD-ROM: the age old "CMS" used for many Chinese DVRs. It doesn't seem to be able to record directly to a NAS (despite the item description on Aliexpress).

A little update.

- The camera works fine at it's highest quality setting (1080p30@8Mbps). It's only the supplied CMS software which can't properly decode that kind of a stream in real-time (I was testing a single camera on an PC with an Intel i5-2500K@4.4Ghz CPU, so I guess the decoder is simply buggy.) But this infamous CMS software does a decent job in saving the 8Mbps stream on a local HDD space and I can play those videos with MPC-HC after remuxing them with mkvtoolnix (with the 30fps info injected to the container metadata, so the player knows how to play it). So it's usable.

-It also seems to work with ZoneMinder. I just had to enable the RTSP protocol and grab the proper path syntax from ONVIF Device Manager. Although, the image on the web interface is severely corrupted which I guess is a decoding problem again.