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Wow, that RTFM was incredibly helpful... :roll: What might be more helpful, for anyone else who hits the same problem, is that ZM seems to have an issue with resolutions higher than 320x240 for MJPEG streams. A colleague of mine mentioned today that he'd had the same problem - a cam streaming ...

(Of course, I meant 640x480 above, 420 was just a typo...)

Hi, So, on a previous thread I was unable to get my USB webcam working with ZM at all (it worked fine with XAWTV, strangely.) My latest greatest plan is to use motion, which I've had working for a few months now, to output an MJPEG stream, and simply pipe this into ZM. So, I've got a stream, I can ...

Hi guys, Thanks for the replies. I did try a whole host of different things to get this working, but to no avail unfortunately. I have another plan now, around using mjpeg streaming instead, and am 99% of the way to a workable solution, so I'll start my whining on that subject on a different thread ...

By the way, the "invalid" argument error might just be a red herring - I entered what I thought were the most logical settings into ZM, because I couldn't get zmu -q -v to show me what I really should be entering. So no doubt, the settings I entered into ZM were complete rubbish...

Thanks for the responses (and sorry for the delay, damn day-job taking over again!!!) Yes, I did try /dev/video instead of /dev/video0, but that device seems completely wrong, as I'm getting nothing back. Also, the cam works absolutely fine in Cheese Webcam booth (bundled with Fedora 11) and shows ...

By the way, my messages log contains this info, in case it's helpful: Sep 20 22:22:01 jellycomp zmdc[8218]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' started at 09/09/20 22:22:01] Sep 20 22:22:01 jellycomp zmdc[4811]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 09/09/20 22:22:01, pid = 8218] Sep 20 22:22:01 jellycomp zmc ...

By the way, I should also have said, my ultimate goal is to use MythTV's zoneminder plugin to run the whole show, taking feeds from several machines around the house. I saw someone on this forum mention that MPEG-streaming across a network is less resource-intensive than running ZM on multiple ...

Hi there, I've been wrestling with zoneminder all day (originally tried to install from source on 64-bit Fedora 11, wasted an hour on that before finding a precomiled RPM which did it all for me - duh...) Anyway, all's running fine now, ZM 1.24.2 is fired up, and I try to add my USB webcam, which ...