jpegs disabled but still written

[alanm]

I'm trying to tune my zones and streaming settings and I am able to detect motion and see the captured video via the UI; that's great however.

I noticed in this error in the logs for my event (8076)
Could not open input file '/var/lib/zoneminder/events/10/2024-11-06/8076/8076-video.mp4' (error 'No such file or directory')

It's true that file doesnt exist, but there are jpeg files in the /var/lib/zoneminder/events/10/2024-11-06/8076/ directory.

These are my settings. So
1. Is there supposed to be an mp4 file there?
2. Why are there jpegs there when i have disabled that?

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[alanm]

And when I configure Video Writer: Passthrough I DO get an mp4 file generated for the event.
I'm on a mac so I can't see it via Safari but I can see it via Chrome

[iconnor]

If we fail to create the mp4 it will automatically fall back to jpegs.

There must be a problem with creating encoder. There should be more errors in the logs relating to that. Perhaps whatever encoder it is choosing needs other parameters.

[alanm]

It's not an issue anymore.

I changed all the monitor's storage options to passthrough and I consistently getting just the mp4 created.
Save JPEG Disabled
Viedeo Writer Passthrough
Encoder params crf=1

Still can't view them on apple but I mainly use Android & Chrome so I'm ok with that.

The camera are streaming h265 and I previously had
Save JPEG Disabled
Video Writer Encode
OutputCodec h265/hevc
Encoder Auto

[iconnor]

well passthrough will use the least resources.. I find it interesting that chrome/android will play it but not apple. As far as I know apple is the only one that SHOULD be able to play it. Weird