#zoneminder

ok so .. am i being unreasonable to expect that when i buy an ip cam ... the image quality will match their youtube vid ?

for that exact model

and any other model (other make) that puts foward a sample that looks very nice

esp the night time view

or this

and specially this

though the last one is a user vid not a company vid (as far as we know)

compare to the sv3c ... which by comparison id call BLOODY AWFUL

time to spend real money on one or two cams

It would be nice to enter your findings into a wiki page entry...

remind me of the url so i dont have to find it

but my question ... am i being unreasonable ?

i want to see stuff

and recognise myself as vaguely human looking

not some alien grey

i feel like I'm feeding the Sasquatch conspiracy

jzaw: you can, I see that kind of quality from 20+ Grandstream gxv3610. Most are 3fps and 5fps though. Since I'm in Vancouver and my server is in Paris I'll see some quality loss once In a while but mostly I can see faces and read license plates.

_moeiscool_, thanks ... i was starting to think i was being unreasonable

yeha i only use 5fps ... which should really be even easier for the camera to do

than 25fps

Haha for sure

thing is i suppose one has to buy a reputable make and model with proven performance

which means not buying the very cheapest

[14:40:47] <jzaw> thing is i suppose one has to buy a reputable make and model with proven performance

[14:41:17] <jzaw> which means not buying the very cheapest

someone has to crashtest the new models

and eliminate them

This is why I read IPVM

Agreed, usually I get grandstream cameras, their interface doesn't need an onvif manager to setup the camera. the web panel is clean and robust. They are just really expensive...

HOSAFE makes nice hardware but the software needs an onvif manager to tweak the settings

did you see this this IR test ... pretty impressive at 100m 200m and more

it's a pretty good cam if yuu can see individual blades of grass at 100m

you

at night

jzaw I setup that mjpg-streamer last night, today the feed is blank, I suspect that means that it doesn't support that uvc spec you spoke of even though it's autodetected as a "vlc camera" ad "/dev/video0

gehidore, check dmesg and see that it finds a UVC cam or a spgca (or what ever the correct other type is)

heh

good idea

[ 26.105000] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB 2.0 PC Cam (090c:037c)

well she sure says she's uvc

interestings...

my command is

yet the page just gives a black image...

./mjpg_streamer -i "./input_uvc.so -d /dev/video0 -f 5 -r 1280x1024" -o "./output_http.so -w ./www -p 8080"

and then you can browse to http://<ip of device running mjpg-streamer>:8080

I'll try that

and the stream will be http://<ip>:8080/?action=stream

which you can use in vlc

and also in zm

let me look at what mine was

I ccreated it late late last night

/usr/local/bin/mjpg_streamer -i "/usr/local/lib/input_uvc.so -n -f 10 -r 640x480" -o "/usr/local/lib/output_http.so -p 10088 -w /usr/local/www"

hrm I'll try specifying the device evne though it's automatically detecting it

also you might try to export your local bin path

trying all the things... will report back