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ZoneMinder Interview W/Perl Doge Randal Schwartz

John Poole

•Sep 16, 2018

As a Perl programmer and someone who is exploring open source alternatives for video surveillance, I cam across a show on the Floss Weekly netcast hosted by Randal Schwartz -- a leader in the Perl Programming community. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_L._Schwartz. Randal is the author or co-author of several leading books about Perl published by O'Reilly: https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/335 I've used his books extensively and was delighted to learn of his hosting role in Floss Weekly.

Here's his 1 hour broadcast about Zoneminder:

For what it's worth, I've been exploring a recent upstart project, Shinobi, as it sports features that I'd like to have in Zoneminder and I felt that Zoneminder might be languishing. (I have not finished watching this netcast, I wanted to post here while I remembered.)

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John Honovich

•Sep 16, 2018

IPVM

John, thanks for sharing!

I've embedded the video above to make it easier for others to watch.

Also, we have recent posts on ZoneMinder and Shinobi, see: ZoneMinder Open Source Profile and Shinobi: Moe Is Building His Own VMS

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John Poole

•Sep 16, 2018

For what it's worth, my take-away notes from the hour long video:

Load limit: Four 720dpi per core

264 is decently CPU intensive
265 is ridiculously intensive

Raspberry PI with 4 video feeds not breaking a sweat, limited by RAM.

0ver 100 cameras require re-architecture of the system ran into
1 TB/sec network usage

plans to release 1.32.0
The roadmap is not visible.
Some idea they have in mind:
- onvif probe https://www.onvif.org/
- browser limitations on streams, 6 limit, so they need to get around that limitation

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