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Well, I feel quite silly. I had forgotten I had tried to up the number of leading and following frames, to make sure I captured all of the lobby activity preceeding and following an alarm state. In particular, I had bumped up the Pre Event Image Buffer and Post Event Image Buffer to 90 and 120 ...

I just had an event that might shed some light on this... Any reason why I would start getting MySQL server syntax errors like this? I don't believe I've changed anything that should have affected the database at all. ov 5 06:24:39 [zma-m1] INF [FrontDoor: Alarm Pixels: 3098, Filter Pixels: 435 ...

Hi Philip, You were right ... the problems were unrelated. I don't know how or why the module went missing, but an emerge of the appropriate perl modules eliminated all of the error messages in zmdc.log. However, I still do not see viewable events in the web interface. The events appear, but are ...

Hi Philip, You were right ... the problems were unrelated. I don't know how or why the module went missing, but an emerge of the appropriate perl modules eliminated all of the error messages in zmdc.log. However, I still do not see viewable events in the web interface. The events appear, but are ...

Hi, Well, I don't know what happend. I was letting zoneminder run, collecting events, and suddenly it stopped providing film clips of past events. Although it does appear the still images are captured, I can't view them either via the web interface. There is no corresponding mpeg file, or ...

This would be great. Even something simple like 1) allow automatic archiving of all events, ideally with transcode capabilities to xvid/divx (mpeg4) or other high quality/low storage requirement format (each event in its own small divx/xvid file, name either based on 'event##.avi' or even better ...

A simple way to transcode the video captured into alternative formats (c.f. the excellent "transcode" utility) such as xvid (for very high quality, very low space, archiving purposes) would be fantastic. A way to set a size queue up (e.g. "we have 4.1 GB of video data stored) that would trigger ...

Thank you Philip for the help! I now have zoneminder installed and working. The final hurdle was actually a misunderstanding on what the term "channel" meant in context with a Hauppauge btv card. It does not refer to the broadcast channel (as I initially thought, i.e. 'channel 96' or 'channel 4' in ...

Hi Philip, You were correct, I need to be putting channel 3 (fourth channel) in ... I think. In any event, it didn't have any effect on my problem. zmc is still dying, and /var/log/everything/current (gentoo/metalog equivelent of /var/log/messages) reports: ct 31 17:34:57 [zmfix] INF [Debug Level ...

Hi Philip, Re your question: What you say you are trying to get it to read channel 4 do you mean as in /dev/video3 (the 4th device) or a 4th channel of /dev/video0 for example? I am trying to read channel four (4) off of the first device (/dev/video0). I have device set to 0 and channel set to 4. I ...

OK, now to the third hurdle (I suspect I'm having a conversation of one, and that I am merely documenting the gotchas in trying to get zoneminder installed on a Gentoo system, but oh well). I discovered that I needed to change ownership of the log directory (/var/log/zoneminder on my machine) to ...

OK, I managed to get over this hump by (re-?)running 'perl zmconfig.pl -noi'. However, when I try to start zoneminder from the web gui (or from the command line using '/usr/local/bin/zmpkg.pl start') zm fails to start. Looking at the logs I find the following messages: Executing: /usr/local/bin/zmdc ...

Greetings, I have installed and configured zoneminder 0.9.15 on my Gentoo box per the instructions in the readme. I chose to do so by hand after struggling with (and getting fed up with) the 0.9.12 ebuild. In both cases (with the ebuild 0.9.12 and the manually installed 0.9.15) I am getting ...