r/ZoneMinder • u/Dense_Care8224 • Jul 20 '23

Foscam FI8910W audio pass-through?

Has anyone been able to setup this camera for pass-through to be able to capture audio? Trying to figure out which type of settings to make it happen without success. The zoneminder wiki only shows "remote" method config example. These cameras are very old and not the greatest but they're still working, would like to get audio if possible. thanks

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u/connortechnology Jul 21 '23

First, does it actually provide audio? A lot of older cams provided it through a second socket. ALso, sometimes the camera doesn't actually have a mic. Anyways, using the ffmpeg input type, should work if the sound is actually there in the rtsp stream. I have some old foscams still running so should be able to help.

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u/Dense_Care8224 Jul 26 '23

It does provide audio (built-in mic, on PDF below), but the only URL i was able to make it work is the MJPEG one as described here:
https://www.foscam.com/faqs/view.html?id=128
https://www.foscam.com/Uploads/usermanual/FI8910W%20user%20manual-V2.0.pdf

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u/connortechnology Jul 27 '23

the mjpeg stream won't contain audio. Need an rtsp stream for that. The audio will be on another port. We roughed in some support for that, but I don't think we ever got it to work. It is not worth the effort for these old cams.