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How is recording in ZoneMinder configured? I set up one camera in record mode and when I checked the folder it seems that lots of jpegs had been created.

Does ZM have a way of automatically creating video files after a set time and timestamping them, such as once every 24 hours or 48hrs?

I was able too use ffmpeg to generate a video of an event, that lasted about 48secs. Is there way of getting ffmpeg to generate a video for every time period?

I am looking for a system where every day can downloads the previous days recording and backup it up to an archive.

Richard

in record mode there will be only jpegs.

try the "filters" button on the main screen.
make a filter that matches the events you want to generate videos from. when you save the filter choose the option "automatically create videos for all matches".
this will result in one video per event.

What I want to do is to have a filter that tells when the event is complete - it is mainly continuous recording.

It should simply convert the jpeg captures to a video automatically, copy it to a given location and delete the jpeg captures.

If the conversion to video takes too much time. The jobs can be done at night when the shop is closed.

What is the syntax for a filter that can match this type of event?

I could probably write a script that would query the database and run the conversions - but I would rather learn as much about Zone Minder as I can