Zmodopipe
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ZmodoPipe
Zmodopipe is a tool that can take the stream from certain model of DVRs and provide that stream through a Named Pipe where programs, including Zoneminder (through it's zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp and ffmpeg can read that stream.
User Case
I purchased a Night Owl Poseidon DVR in the hopes of getting zmodopipe to work with it. This is what I found.
Equipment: Ubuntu 14.04, Zoneminder 1.30, Night Owl Poseidon DVR8, Zmodopipe .41, ffmpeg 3.0 compiled from source (used current ffmpeg ppa for libraries)