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Comments (19)
Undisclosed #1
Thank you for this article and a big nod to the Zoneminder team for their work and effort.
One part caught my attention...
Several thousand? All managed within the same instance? Would love to know more. While I don't see technical issues that would prevent this (if you can configure storage with such granularity), I'd be interested if such big installations are also centrally managed, or are they composed of smaller bits that are managed separately.
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Undisclosed End User #2
How is Shinobi as a NVR w.r.t. ZoneMinder?
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Undisclosed End User #3
As a personal learning goal, I would like to use this as a tool or pathway to learning many disciplines of IT where the end product would be a nostalgic command line only VMS...
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Sebastian Kratzke
Can ZoneMinder record H.264 streams now?
As I remember last time I read about it, there was only some side-branch of development supporting this while official release only could decode H.264 streams and re-encode them into MJPEG?
Never found out how to install "H.264 video storage branch"... :(
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Sebastian Kratzke
Thank you for your explanations, Isaac.
Where can I dind that development build for testing purposes?
Do I have to compile it from sources?
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Isaac Connor
If running on ubuntu we have nightly packages available using a ppa at ppa:iconnor/zoneminder-master
My development builds are available using
ppa:iconnor/zoneminder-storageareas
Builds for centos/fedora/etc are at zmrepo.zoneminder.com
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Sebastian Kratzke
Thank you!
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John Honovich
Open source social media from Shinobi developer:
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