6 Feb
2014
6 Feb
'14
2:14 p.m.
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.