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No time display on events

Open basildane opened this issue 2 years ago • 8 comments

Describe Your Environment

  • Version of ZoneMinder - 1.36.33
  • How you installed ZoneMinder - PPA
  • Full name and version of OS - Ubuntu Server
  • Browser name and version - Brave

If the issue concerns a camera N/A

Describe the bug The recorded event viewer used to display the channel name and time on at the bottom of the video. This was working in 1.36.32. Today I updated to 1.36.33 and the time display is gone. When you play an event, it's just raw video with no indication of what time it occurred.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to Console
  2. Click on an Event
  3. See video - no time display

Expected behavior Playing an event, need to see the time on the video

Debug Logs

basildane avatar Mar 02 '23 02:03 basildane

See #3488

We are going with the stance that we should not be overlaying things over the video that may block seeing useful parts of video.

connortechnology avatar Mar 02 '23 02:03 connortechnology

OK, glad there is a reason for this and I can stop troubleshooting it.

So I want to ask your advice on how to proceed, because for any security uses (which is what I need zoneminder for), having the exact time burned in the video is absolutely required. I am using pass-through video at the moment, because all the HD cameras were overloading the machine.

Do you have any recommendations?

basildane avatar Mar 02 '23 02:03 basildane

Have the cameras do it. Passthrough has no hard coded time unless the cameras do it. That little display meant nothing. It was simply generated from the db record.

connortechnology avatar Mar 02 '23 04:03 connortechnology

Migrating from Raspberry Pi version 1.34.22 to Ubuntu v1.36.33 gave me the same "problem". I liked the 1.34.22 situation better. Could it not be optional?

hansrijn avatar Mar 03 '23 21:03 hansrijn

Why I liked it better (and many more will, it saves trouble to get all the camera's at the right time. Some of mine will even refuse to do it right. ) pi Montage, image times from server raspberry pi os Zm v1 34 22 Montage, image times from server Ubuntu on Intel NUC Zm v1 36 33

hansrijn avatar Mar 05 '23 20:03 hansrijn

I also used the overlay timestamp on videos. When reviewing a large (most of the screen) video stream, I don't get the sidebar with the time/date, so I used the overlay time quite a bit. Now it's gone. I have to shrink the video window to get the sidebar to show up, which makes seeing anything inside the video window more difficult.

gandihar avatar Mar 07 '23 18:03 gandihar

I don't think you know what a massive pain in the butt this is for most people.

I have built an NTP server now, put it on my private VLAN to support the camera array, and configured firewall rules for it. Then I started manually configuring all the cameras. This simply is not going to work. I have not encountered even ONE SINGLE camera that properly supports daylight savings time, and some cameras cannot even use my NTP server. They are hard coded to go to nist.gov or something, which is impossible because they are not on the internet.

Therefore, I am now forced to have no time stamping in security recordings.

Please reconsider this functionality.

basildane avatar Mar 25 '23 16:03 basildane

If you want it back, edit /usr/share/zoneminder/www/skins/classic/css/base/views/event.css and delete the last three lines.

But you need to be aware, there is NO TIMESTAMP IN YOUR VIDEO unless you put it there, either in the camera, or by re-encoding the video. Your video will be useless as evidence.

I know exactly what a pain in the ass it is to manage all this. Which is why people pay for cloud cameras.

connortechnology avatar Mar 25 '23 18:03 connortechnology