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Hello,

I've built ZM on Fedora Core 6 this morning, with the latest SVN ffmpeg, and the ffmpeg patch from the wiki. I also applied the zmfilter patch from the wiki.

I have three cameras installed at the moment:
Axis 207
Axis 211
Axis 213PTZ.

All are using the axis 640x480 mpjpeg max 5fps preset.

The 207 works fine.

The 211 and 213 both give me a montage effect. The screen from ZM monitor function looks like it's divided into 3x3 and the top 3 show the image from the camera. The bottom two rows are black.

If I power cycle the cameras this effect goes away temporarily. Rebooting them from their web control panels does not clear the issue, not does restarting ZM.

I believe, but have not yet proven, that this issue is related to my selecting Montage from the ZM Console.

The direct output from each camera via http is not montaged.

All cameras are outputting motion jpeg.

Can anyone tell me what I've misconfigured, or am doing wrong?

The 207 has not yet exhibited this issue.

Thanks much!

Darren

As it turned out, it was a problem with my inexperience. I needed to use black and white rather than full color as the CPU load was too high. So, I configured the cams for black and white.

What I didn't do is change ZM cam source from 24 bit color to 8 bit grayscale.

Once I did that, cpu load dropped dramatically and the tiling effect disappeared.

The support for Axis cameras in ZM is very well done. Kudos to the ZM community for this excellent work.

I even have the PTZ functionality working from ZM on the 213PTZ cam.

Darren

Hi -
I am having troubles getting an image to show up from my Axis 213 camera and was wondering if you could help me with some settings.
Here is what i have:
Remote Host Name: ip address
Remote Host Port: 80
Remote Host Path: /axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=4CIF
Remote Image Colors: 24 bit color
Capture Width (pixels): 640
Capture Height (pixels): 480
Orientation: Normal
I would like to disable anonymous access to the camera and supply a user and password but I enabled anonymous access for testing

For the Axis camera i have these default settings:
Aspect Ratio Correction: On
4CIF (640x480)
Compression: 30
Rotate Image: 180
Color Settings: Color
Brightness: 30
Video Format: Motion JPEG

any ideas? No image shows up when i click on the name of the camera
I have another local device that works great. I do not have another network camera to test with. Thanks ,