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I tried Debian but it doesn't recognise the HDD in the machine I'm using, which is a bit of an issue! Currently running Ubuntu Server 9.04 (as I've read people here have probs with 9.10) and built Rev 3007 from source, but still getting the problem of zm crashing and restarting causing 5 sec gaps in ...

Actually getting the snap is OK for me, rock solid I have it at 6fps which is just good enough I suppose. Still would be nice if MJPEG worked, when it did work it was getting about 18fps. Maybe a case of getting what you pay for. I have tried getting the snap but it's still crashing for me, every ...

Somthing is wrong with the Maygion output. I don't find this entirely surprising. Maybe it's time to go back to looking at getting the static jpg? This should work but appears to fail because ZM crashes if it recieves a 0-length JPG. This is surely a bug in ZM? Why can't we patch ZM to just try ...

New error now: 02/08/10 17:04:17.093045 zmc_m7[15019].INF-zm_debug.c/296 [New Debug Level = 5, New Debug Log = /tmp/zm_debug.log.15019] 02/08/10 17:04:17.093610 zmc_m7[15019].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/2273 [Got 1 monitors] 02/08/10 17:04:17.093926 zmc_m7[15019].DB2-zm_remote_camera_http.cpp/70 [Request ...

I can't even get it to work occasionally, I just get a constant black screen and this error in the logs:

"Unable to store frame as shared memory invalid"

Even though I'm sure my shmmax is set high enough. Any ideas?

Nice! Are you running this command line vlc on the same box as zm? What do you put as the source details in zm?

Update: I'm also getting this error: 01/29/10 22:48:45.029605 zmc_m7[3498].INF-zm_debug.c/296 [New Debug Level = 5, New Debug Log = /tmp/zm_debug.log.03498] 01/29/10 22:48:45.030099 zmc_m7[3498].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/2273 [Got 1 monitors] 01/29/10 22:48:45.038539 zmc_m7[3498].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/338 ...

Looks like the version of ffmpeg I have does have the RTSP Auth code. CrazyPilot's method looks interesting, I've installed and set up vlc-wrapper and when I try to connect to the port on the IP I've set up with my browser it prompts me to save the Octet stream which looks good, but ZM is still ...

I'm getting very little output at all. If I type ffmpeg -loglevel debug -v 3 -i rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.2.103:80 /tmp/cam.avi I'm getting: FFmpeg version SVN-r21006, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al. built on Jan 20 2010 00:02:19 with gcc 4.3.3 configuration: --enable-gpl --enable ...

OK, I've recompileed ffmpeg with --enable-libx264 but still having the same issue. I have power-cycled the camera TNA. I should also reiterate that it works in VLC.

Assuming it's not an authentication problem, are there any other options I'd need to compile ffmpeg with?

1. Need to compile libx264 in ffmpeg: Wow, this may well be the answer to the ffmpeg problem, I haven't complied libx264 in it (will do this tonight) Can you try removing authentication and retry ffmpeg? Perhaps is related to authentication. It may well be, but as far as I can tell there's no way ...

Yeah, I've still got the same problem with the 1.9 firmware.

Does the error suggest the camera isn't sending the response it should (or at least, the response that ZM is expecting)?

coke wrote:Hangs with, or is that avi file getting bigger and bigger? Try ffplay instead of ffmpeg, then you can see what it's seeing.

It just hangs, the AVI file isn't even created. This server isn't running a GUI, but I'll try ffplay on my Ubuntu netbook. Thanks for the advice

He means change /dev/video to /dev/video0 in the ZM options

After Maygion released a new firmware for my IPCamera which supports RTSP streaming, I've tried getting it working in ZoneMinder but with no success. I can view it fine in VLC by opening rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.2.103:80 However, with the following settings in ZM: Remote Protocol: RTSP Remote ...