HTML5 compatible video for live & replay

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HTML5 compatible video for live & replay

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I played a little bit with zoneminder in the last weeks and by general that is a interesting project, but there is one thing that is not so nice for my taste. The video output for live and for replay.

My question:
Is there any way to make this HTML5 compatible, that I would use it with a standard HTML5 video tag (on my own skin)?

Thanks,

Joseph
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Re: HTML5 compatible video for live & replay

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As of today, ZM stores images as jpegs so you won't be able to use an HTML video tag with the mime types that it expects.
There is a video branch of ZM (check github) where folks have done some basic work on video, but its only gone as far as directly storing video instead of jpeg.

You can check out that branch and see.

In the mean time, you may also look at other options of just creating a montage view yourself by directly accessing the video feeds of the cameras and not routing it through ZM
Joseph wrote:I played a little bit with zoneminder in the last weeks and by general that is a interesting project, but there is one thing that is not so nice for my taste. The video output for live and for replay.

My question:
Is there any way to make this HTML5 compatible, that I would use it with a standard HTML5 video tag (on my own skin)?

Thanks,

Joseph
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