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Keith, how would I get that older version of ffmpeg? I tried going here (svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg ) but timed out. EDIT: I tried that in command line. I also tried just going to the link part through TortoiseSVN and also timed out. Also I just started getting this ...

Thanks for the info Keith. Is it absolutely required to have a video capture card in order to record videos? I have 2 webcams but no capture card. Having major troubles getting this working.

Cordel: "Hi Keith, You need to rebuild ffmpeg and configure with --enable-swscale and that should sort you all out. Corey" I tried to build with that configure option and it said it wasn't valid. I saw when configuring though that ffmpeg/libswscale.so.0 was not found, or some variation of swscale. I ...

This is going to sound really dumb, maybe, but can these webcams record and save video without a capture card? They are locally attached via USB.

OK, I reformatted the box and followed a different tutorial. After doing the whole installation from scratch, I got the source showing up green instead of red in the Zoneminder WUI. There is still no picture when I open up the monitor but I go to settings and there is nothing set for brightness, hue ...

I have figured out that ffmpeg is not working at all and could be the reason Zoneminder isn't working. This is the error I get when I try to run it from the command line: someone@somewhere:# ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 720x480 -r 30000/1001 -i /dev/video0 -y webcam.avi FFmpeg version 0.5-svn17737+3:0 ...

I cannot see any reason why your Logitech does not work with 640x480 Colour Palette YUYV assuming you have enough shared memory and FPS is set to a reasonable rate. If it helps My general tab settings currently are Name: Logitech_9000 Source Type: Local Function: Modect Enabled: Yes Linked Monitors ...

Used Mikets's guide from here: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14281 Took about 20 minutes to install after previously installing Ubuntu 9.04 Server 32 bit, from Wiki installation guide There is now a 1.24.2.1 deb package available. ftp://ftp.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/1.24 ...

Followed the excellent wiki for installing from SVN, and I didn't have do anything other than increase shared memory. I am using a P4 2.8Ghz with 2Gb memory. My shared memory settings, which is plenty are: kernel.shmall = 268435456 kernel.shmmax = 268435456 From what I understand, default install ...

According to the Logitech UVC Frame list here for 08c5 Quickcam http://www.quickcamteam.net/devices/logitech_uvc_frame_format_list.pdf Only 640x480 or 640x360 under Colour Palette YUYV are supported Others formats are supported under MJPG That is a very informative PDF not sure why I never found it ...

codabiz, could you possibly link me to where you got any drivers for your camera for Ubuntu? Or did you not need anything extra? Just in case I am missing somethign I'd like to check. Thanks a lot.

Have you tried Capture Palette: YUYV . What is the Device ID: output from command: lsusb . Apologies if I've missed that from a previous post! Here is the output from lsusb about the camera: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:08c5 Logitech, Inc. Quickcam Pro 5000 I did try YUYV and that also did not work ...

Just for the record, I can use a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 (version2) at 1600x1200 at 5fps, using zm 1.24.2 on Ubuntu Server 9.04, with no problems. Source: Device Path: /dev/video0 Capture Method: Video for Linux 2 Device Channel: 0 Device Format: PAL Capture Palette: YUYV Capture Width: 1600 ...

Sorry Mitch somehow I missed that part about the debug log. 10/08/09 09:24:16.040690 zmc_dvideo0[10255].INF-zm_debug.c/292 [New Debug Level = 5, New Debug Log = /tmp/zm_debug.log.10255] 10/08/09 09:24:16.041073 zmc_dvideo0[10255].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/1712 [Got 1 monitors] 10/08/09 09:24:16.041154 zmc ...

whatboy wrote:

Capture Palette: RGB24

Try BGR24

Still nothing with BGR24