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Grayscale and RGB24(often called BGR24?) are the only formats ZM supports natively without a need to do conversion, so make sure to try that! Please upload some lines of your system log (tail -n20 /var/log/messages) so we can see the error. I'm finally revisiting this - the gray is really ok for ...

I think the PV-155 is petty much the same as my PV-149, but I can't seem to get any of the RGB settings to work under Ubuntu. I keep wondering if it's something to do with the way the bttv driver is recognizing the card under Ubuntu; if the driver thinks it can only do grey, that would explain it ...

I've tried that, but no luck. The source turns red & stays that way, but as soon as I set it back to grey (even without a restart) they go green & start working again.
Thanks,
Bobby

That's great, unchecking the V4L_MULTI_BUFFER fixed my split image problem. The images now look better than they do in 1.23.3.

Now all I need is to figure out how to get color back!

Thanks,
Bobby

Hi: I've been running ZM 1.23.3 on CentOS for a while, and I'm testing out Ubuntu Server 10.4 (beta) with 1.24.2 on a new hard drive in the same box. I'm having a couple of issues and I'd appreciate any suggestions. I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, the hardware certainly works fine ...

I'm on v1.23.3, but I came across this thread with a similar issue (power outage last week, source path orange, not recording). In my case what fixed it was: service zm stop mysqlcheck -A --auto-repair -u<user> -p<password> service zm start Once the database was cleaned up, happily recording once ...