Make zoneminder movie from stills, uses mencoder apache mysql and zoneminder. Tested on ubuntu 14.04 and zoneminder 1.28 installation from iconnor repository
PHP script to create videos between start/end dates from stills (Note I am not a programmer so code may not meet industry standards!!!)
Ensure the folder where the script resides is writable by www-data and mencoder is installed
Simply drop the script in /var/www/html somewhere and point your browser to it. Uses default ZM 1.28 paths and mysql credentials. The script will create a video in the folder where the script resides. Once mencoder has finished making the video, the script will display the video available for download on the script page (you have to refresh the page).
The script has 2 modes: All = movies generated from all frames Alarm = alarm frames only (with time buffer before and after). The intent of this is to be used with mocord.
Due to zoneminder writing bulk frames to database in continuous recording the buffer time may not be exact in the video. For high frame rate recordings (30fps) buffer should be fairly accurate but for lower frame rates (5 fps for example) you may want to reduce the bulk frame interval in zoneminder settings (script to be adjusted later).