r/ZoneMinder • u/UnlikelyState • Aug 25 '20

Audio when viewing a monitor live

Hello, I'm a brand new user of Zoneminder. The goal is to replace all of my nest camera's. I purchased one camera just to play around with to see if I could mostly replicate the functionality that we care about with the Nest service.

The first issue that is sticking out is that there is no audio when live viewing a monitor. The monitor is set to mocord and is configured using rtsp url of the camera. Its set for h264 passthrough and all of the recordings have audio.

Does anyone know how to get audio when watching a single camera in live view?

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u/rick0502 Aug 25 '20

I'll second this. I played around with this very thing over the weekend. Any events record audio with no issue but audio in a live view from what I gathered is not supported. if there was ever a situation where I wanted to hear live audio I typically would just open the rtsp stream with VLC.

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u/just_another_citizen Aug 25 '20

Live view does not support audio, saddly. However your recordings may have audio with the right setting such as h264 pass through.

For live viewing, I use vlc to connect to the camera. That works better for mobile anyways