[CentOS] zoneminder
Lamar Owen
lowen at pari.edu
Thu Feb 6 14:14:32 UTC 2014
On 02/05/2014 07:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> You could spend your budget on IP cameras and not need to worry about
> hardware connections or where the server sits. If your old system
> works with IP cameras you could probably use the same approach - run
> it under an OS that works in a VM somewhere and treat it like an
> appliance.
>
The caution with IP cameras and zoneminder together is the significant
increase in CPU load due to zm's transcoding, with MJPEG cameras in
particular. I'm running a zm here with a few older IP cams on VMware
ESX and had to drop the framerate each time I added a camera due to the
CPU load. And the load of just storing the individual JPEG files is
pretty significant if you record.
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