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After my complaint in May about ZM,
continued on my own and after trial and error within the linux environment (learned a lot),
Zoneminder is working in following environment:

Redhat 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL
Logitech Pro 4000 - USB
Pentium III 665 MHz

based on following steps:

1. recompiling the kernel to make the driver available,
2. downloaded and installed xawtv,
3. installed mysql
4. downloaded zoneminder
5. configured the zm database based on zmschema.sql (based on zm instructions)
6. installed cambozola (download/unpack/ant)
7. checked camera with xawtv
8. zmu -d <device_no> -q -v
9. started zm with the minimum config
10. received the webcam output in the zoneminder web page.
11. selected authentication - logon & password
12. zm runs.


ZM runs in Monitor mode (simple in the beginning) running with high bandwidth,
to learn (and enjoy) the zm basics.

appreciate your guidance for following ZM questions:

1. zm runs from my point of view correctly : streaming with 10 FPS,
(the camera limit is 30FPS mentioned on the box)
however if i bring an object before the camera it takes seconds before
this is shown as picture on the web, also the object is still shown as picture
although already removed a few seconds before.

I assume that this behaviour is related with the setup of the zm,
what zm setup param is nescessary so that a real time view is provided ?

2. when zm is started with : still
no still (or single) screen is shown it is a full white area.
Is it correct to expect a single (static) screen without dynamic behaviour ?

Thank you already in advance
Looking forward to your reply.

BR
Hugo.

Hi Hugo,

hbr wrote:1. zm runs from my point of view correctly : streaming with 10 FPS,
(the camera limit is 30FPS mentioned on the box)
however if i bring an object before the camera it takes seconds before
this is shown as picture on the web, also the object is still shown as picture
although already removed a few seconds before.

What method are you using to watch the stream? If it's mpeg with Windows Media Player then WMP introduces a lag of at least 5 seconds. Normal streamed JPEGs are usually pretty instant though if you are sending them faster than your connection can handle they may start to back up.

hbr wrote:2. when zm is started with : still
no still (or single) screen is shown it is a full white area.
Is it correct to expect a single (static) screen without dynamic behaviour ?

You should see an image appear. This is generated on the fly by zms (check the source for the full path). It may take a couple of seconds to appear initially though.

Phil,