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I've turn down the box now, so it'll just be academic and a waste of your time to troubleshoot now... but... Once I got through the jungle of config quirks (which imho aren't documented), what I found was most likely a driver/hardware issue. The card has 4 separate bt878a chips, and 4 ports ...

First - it's good to see someone jumping in to help this persons request. After time "friggin'" with this, I learned error 255 was a catchall for any (most?) errors from an ungraceful exit from the monitor/driver communication. Speaking to the developers... Couldn't more information be documented ...

Actually... I did put in the time... read on the shared memory, set the kernel parameters, and did get a higher resolution going... all this without anyone responding to my request for help... still very unstable though.

That brings the support out of the woodwork

I was in the same boat, I just frigged with the setting until I finally got it. Then the cameras kept switching channels, crashes, etc. The error reporting in zoneminder is abysmal; and not much support from the group either... keep friggin' with the setting or just go on ebay and buy a black box ...

Saved myself a tone of grief, and just bought an all in one box from China... order to my door in less than a week, $100 and works right out of the box. Highly recommended to anyone else who is frustrated with zoneminder. If only I did this from the start - I could have saved myself hours of ...

This software - well, to put it lightly - needs some work

I purchased one of those "black boxes" from china...hardware, software, everything you need for $100 - works great. Now only if I could get back the time I wasted with zoneminder lol, oh well.. it's a hobby I guess.

I managed to get a signal! I got a video displayed... but things seem very flaky. I managed to get a signal by dropping down to 320x240 (wow, this is pretty low... will I be able to get better?). BUT, the camera channels and source seem to be randomly moving. I got one camera going on channel 1 ...

This is a copy of a post I made in the general forums 2.24... but probably should have posted this question here... Admittedly I'm new to zoneminder, but I spent a great deal of time getting my card so that I can get tvtime and xawtv to display video from my cams. The card is a generic Kodicom 4400r ...

Admitedley I'm new to zoneminder, but I spent a great deal of time getting my card so that I can get tvtime and xawtv to display video from my cams. The card is a generic Kodicom 4400r. BUT ZONEMINDER KEEPS EXITING FROM MONITORING, with "exit status 255". The error log shows... 10-06-14 23:42:45 ...