# Purpose

ZMStream is a library for creating creating an iterable object for image frames from a ZoneMinder stream, other motion jpeg stream, or anything FFMPEG can handle. Frames are emitted as PIL.Image.Image objects.

# Dependencies

• PIL
• pyffmpeg (http://code.google.com/p/pyffmpeg/) if Mode.FFMPEG is used.

# Platforms

ZMStream has been tested to work on Ubuntu 10.04 and Debian Squeeze, using CPython 2.6.x and 2.7.x. Centos 6 is known to work as well.

# Examples

• Please see test.py for an example.
• Another use case for zmstream is lidless (https://github.com/eastein/lidless).

# Camera / Source Compatibility

Known to work:

• ZoneMinder 1.22.x, 1.24.x
• Rosewill RXS-3211
• ABS MegaCam ABS-4210