[H264] Time overlay during playback

[abishai]

In h264 passthrough mode, ZM seeds original camera stream saved on disk, so we have no timestamp. In web interface, timestamp is overlayed during playback. ZMNinja have only 'x hours ago' information, which is not enought)

[pliablepixels]

is this a ZM issue or a zmninja issue?

[abishai]

In h264 passthrough, no timestamp is put on video be design. ZM web player put timestamp during playback above the player window. ZMNinja is not. So, I think it can be called enchancement - option to put timestamp somewhere.

[pliablepixels]

I don't use the video branch - do you have a test account I can use to see how it does it ?

[abishai]

I can setup test system, how can we communicate in more private way ?

[pliablepixels]

pliablepixels@gmail

[pliablepixels]

Thanks for the setup -very useful. I don't see any time overlay in events.I just see a static start time. Can you tell me where to look?

[abishai]

On the bottom when you playback an event :-]
http://i.imgur.com/X6cyfVp.png

[pliablepixels]

Thanks - it doesn't show up on Safari, but works on Chrome

[abishai]

web interface is rather buggy, for example it uses external links to js components and some functions like single frame view is not working at all (php error), but the core itself is rather stable (maybe, devs prefer ZMNinja :) ).

I think, h.264 passthrough will be the favorite mode as it doesn't introduce any cpu pressure on mp4 generation and ZM still lacks any hardware support on encoding. So, I think it would be nice to have something similar in ZMNinja. Alternative way is set overlay in camera admin menu, but I'd avoid it.

[pliablepixels]

done