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That seemed to do the trick. I ran `chown -R www-data:www-data /var/cache/zoneminder/images/` then `chown -R www-data:www-data /var/cache/zoneminder/events/` and events seem to be sucessfully listing. Thanks!

Here is my /var/log/syslog. I couldn't find the option to enable logging in Zoneminder.

What other details do you need? I can tell you I'm using a pair of PV-143 cards. Where are the log files you want me to post?

For some reason I cannot get Zoneminder to capture events. I have tried setting the function to either record or mocord but events still do not show up in the list. What else do I have to do to enable events?

I figured it out. I found the Debian Squeeze page on the wiki and it mentioned having to add /etc/udev/rules.d/90-zoneminder.rules with the following lines in it: # allow non-privileged users to access the /dev/video* files SUBSYSTEM!="video4linux", GOTO="zm_rules_end" SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", MODE ...

I changed the line and rebooted. In mplayer the green went away but the distortion is still there. ZoneMinder still shows nothing but that white square. xawtv still works. Why would xawtv work but not the other two programs?

Update: I just tried the camera in xawtv and it seems to work flawlessly. It's only mplayer and zoneminder where I have problems.

According to http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Bttv , I don't need the .conf at the end of the file. I tried moving it to /etc/modprobe.d/bttv and rebooted. No luck. I then did what you suggested. I took out one of the cards, turned of the computer and left it off for a little more than 5 minutes, then ...

Here is what I see in mplayer.

I'm going to try uploading attachments now. Here is what I see in Zoneminder.

Sorry for the late reply. I've tried making your suggested changes in zoneminder, still no luck. Just a white square shows up. I then created an /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf file with "card=105". Still no changes in zoneminder nor mplayer. Is that the only line I need to put in bttv.conf? Am I even ...

I don't have a /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf or a /etc/modprobe.conf or a /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf. Sorry, I totally forgot to mention my system information. I'm running Debian Squeeze. My uname -a: Linux dvr 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 25 00:26:11 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux (I just noticed the ...

I never intentionally edited a bttv.conf file. Where can I find it? Here's what I've got in my source tab: Device path: /dev/video1 (I have two cards, I change this depending on which one I'm plugging into) Capture method: Video For Linux version 2 Device Channel: 0 Device Format: NTSC Capture ...

Hi I just bought a pair of PV-143 capture cards from the Bluecherry website. I am not able to get anything except a white box to show up in Zoneminder when I try to view the picture. I try to use mplayer to view the picture by running the following command: mplayer tv://0 device=/dev/video1 I get an ...

I got to the "Check that your Camera Works" part of the Documentation where I started running into problems. I tried running xawtv as suggested and got this error: brad@bigbrother:~$ xawtv This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/x86_64 (2.6.32-5-amd64) v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or ...