unexplained image behavior

[ppost]

I have 6 cameras running off of a Nightowl DVR-THD30B and I am getting rtsp video off of it and display the video in zoneminder. Everything is working well and with relatively few problems except the camera view on three of the cameras is displayed in a "3 top images lower main image format (see pics) I can not figure out how this setting is made. I would like to turn it off so that the one image takes the whole monitor but I can't find any setting for it and I can not find any reference to this as a feature of zoneminder. I feel that it is a zoneminder issue because I can monitor the rtsp stream in VLC and it looks normal.

The line in the source path (and the one displayed in VLC) is rtsp://admin:[password]@192.168.1.9:554/Streaming/channels/201

This is what I am getting in zoneminder

zmimage.png (252.58 KiB) Viewed 2621 times

This is the rtsp stream image (and what I want zoneminder to display

rtspimage.png (382.59 KiB) Viewed 2621 times

This has to be an easy fix but it's been driving me crazy on and off for months

[Magic919]

Makes no sense to me.

[iconnor]

Is this an ffmpeg monitor or a remote ?

I've seen stuff like that when you setup the stream for lets say 1080p, and then go into the camera and change it to 720p. ZM doesn't know about the change. However a zoneminder restart would fix it.

Um, hey this is in the 1.34 section, which has been unsupported for years. Upgrade.

[ppost]

ffmpeg is in use, do you think that could be causing this?

This has been running for quite a while like this and has been rebooted many times. as I was posting this yesterday I had the rtsp stream running in vlc in the background and every so often the image size would change. don't know if that was vlc or the stream or something else.

Yea, I could (and probably should) upgrade but I don't know the cause of the problem and not sure it would fix it. (and it aint broke )

thanks for the input. any other ideas?

[iconnor]

Look in logs. I would imagine teh ffmpeg libs are generating messages