Yet another Zoneminder question - and it's a weird one!

[Michael Butash]

Jim,

  You might want to check the ZM forums, when I was looking for info on
my Airlink IP cameras, I had the same issue, and typically there seemed
to be embedded video within the link, such as /video.mpg or /video.asx
as the _actual_ video, not so much the .cgi that is generating the
content page.  You might also want to look at the page source and see if
you can find a link to the actual streaming video.  I think the CGI is
mostly responsible for finding a suitable host player, shelling it, or
invoking a java runtime jar to do so itself - hence no actual video at
that link that ZM is literally trying to fetch video from.

-mb


On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 13:00 -0700, Jim March wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Bob Elzer<bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Where is the video.cgi located ?
> >
> > Is the server setup to allow cgi in that directory ?
> 
> That's on the camera itself.  The controls are fairly primitive...
> 
> > If it's in cgi-bin  have you tried adding /cgi-bin/video.cgi
> 
> No, this link doesn't work:
> 
> http://192.168.0.55/cgi-bin/video.cgi
> 
> This one does:
> 
> http://192.168.0.55/video.cgi
> 
> Again, that's talking straight to the camera's IP address, bypassing
> Zoneminder completely.  The problem is, I can't get Zoneminder to see
> that feed.
> 
> Jim
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On
> >> Behalf Of Jim March
> >> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 11:33 AM
> >> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> >> Subject: Yet another Zoneminder question - and it's a weird one!
> >>
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> I've added two DCS-920 cameras to my setup. Zoneminder box is
> >> based off the latest Bluecherry liveCD, ZM 1.24.0 on Xubuntu 8.10.
> >>
> >> The 920 is a WiFi version of the 910 and I've found very
> >> little info on it.
> >>
> >> I'm running the cameras at 640x480 low-grade JPEG. I can't
> >> get more than .65 to .70fps off them UNLESS I have another
> >> browser window on some system on the local net continuously
> >> query the camera's video feed - in that case, Zoneminder's
> >> FPS goes to a more usable state just under 3fps, which I can
> >> live with.
> >>
> >> Before I grab a bell, book and candle next lemme show you how
> >> it's working now.
> >>
> >> From a regular web browser window talking straight to the
> >> camera, I can go to a camera's IP address such as:
> >>
> >> http://192.168.0.54
> >>
> >> ...and login. From there I can access the latest image snapshot at:
> >>
> >> http://192.168.0.54/image.jpg
> >>
> >> OR the camera's continuous video feed at:
> >>
> >> http://192.168.0.54/video.cgi
> >>
> >> ...and this line seems to work too:
> >>
> >> http://192.168.0.54/video.cgi?
> >>
> >> Getting the camera's video feed gives me a somewhat "choppy"
> >> view, as it will delay refreshing every few seconds for a
> >> split second...but when it's displaying video, it looks to be
> >> about 5 to 8 FPS.
> >>
> >> (Note: I have static camera IP addresses, and the ZM central
> >> box is on the same internal net.)
> >>
> >> Great. So go over to Zoneminder and it'll work off of
> >> /image.jpg just fine, but at low frame rates (under 1 frame
> >> per second) unless I have a separate browser window pointing
> >> to the camera's /video.cgi feed - then it quadruples to
> >> something usable.
> >>
> >> I can't get zoneminder to see the /video.cgi or /video.cgi?
> >> feeds at all - no picture.
> >>
> >> ZM setup stuff:
> >>
> >> I've been looking at this thread:
> >>
> >> http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12233&sid=f51
> >> f2ed70b9d332ce9dc9e4a8ce9ca4b
> >>
> >> ...for the 910 cameras and ZM 1.23 series. In ZM version 1.24
> >> I see no way to set anything in Options>Network related to
> >> "ZM_NETCAM_REGEXPS"
> >> or similar. Am I missing something?
> >>
> >> In the camera's setup window in ZM I'm doing "source type" as
> >> remote of course, "remote protocol" as HTTP, "remote method"
> >> is "simple", remote hostname is [username]@[cameraipaddress]
> >> (this is behind a firewall so I'm not bothering with
> >> passwords), "remote host port" is "80".
> >>
> >> Under "remote host path" I've tried all of the following:
> >>
> >> video.cgi
> >> /video.cgi
> >> video.cgi?
> >> /video.cgi
> >>
> >> Thanks!
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