[Camera Support]: H264/5 and the review tab

[KenwoodFox]

Describe the problem you are having

I got a new camera recently and overall I've been super happy with it. Its a PTZ1A4M-4X-S2 with zoom and everything.

I got it woking in frigate like no problem, ptz and zoom and everything works fine (haven't tried auto tracking but i intend to later)

My issue is actually simpler.. uh.. i cant get the review section to "work"

Now i know in the docs it says

H265 recordings can be viewed in Chrome 108+, Edge and Safari only. All other browsers require recordings to be encoded with H264.

And that's fine but even in chrome browser when I scrub through the footage and leave it it just sits there never actually playing, scrubbing is fine but it wont play.

I think I'll start by just, encoding in 264, does it matter that i use 264? is that more supported in frigate? I just feel like if it can do 65 that's what i should be using? Thanks for input.

Version

0.14.1-f4f3cfa

What browser(s) are you using?

Chrome 131.0.6778.204, firefox 133.0.3

Frigate config file

cameras:
...
  field:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://admin:<passwd>@10.0.11.20:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0
          roles:
            - record
        - path: rtsp://admin:<passwd>@10.0.11.20:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1
          roles:
            - detect

    # PTZ Control
    onvif:
      host: 10.0.11.20
      port: 80
      user: admin
      password: <passwd>
...

Relevant Frigate log output

...

Relevant go2rtc log output

...

FFprobe output from your camera

...

Frigate stats

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Operating system

Proxmox

Install method

Docker Compose

Object Detector

Coral

Network connection

Wired

Camera make and model

PTZ1A4M-4X-S2

Screenshots of the Frigate UI's System metrics pages

Ok?

Any other information that may be helpful

Thanks!

[hawkeye217]

Because browsers have varying levels of compatibility with H.265, H.264 is recommended. If you switch to H.264 and are still having an issue, let us know and we can help further.