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1) includes/database.php - 34 line $dbConn = new PDO( ZM_DB_TYPE . ':host=' . ZM_DB_HOST . ';dbname='.ZM_DB_NAME, ZM_DB_USER, ZM_DB_PASS, array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8") ); Remark : yes , may be it can be done with "pdo_mysql.connect_charset = utf8" in php.ini or "php_admin ...

Please excuse me, I was unable to find it in the forum, but I know that it is possible .... I have ZM installed and want to have different configuration for day and night as example during the day cameras will "record" and night will "modect" how to do this ? Thank you in advance

Hello, I have such a problem: After working some time ... some of the /dev/video become "yellow" ... after restarting ZM they are "green" again and recording This happened not only with one ZM installation (on several different computers) why? do somebody know how can be monitored, so I can restart ...

you want to put this link somewhere on other page ? right? I use such solution .... copy part of login page , and make fields hidden ... and I have "button" ... check it , change your URL , user, pass <form name="loginForm" id="loginForm" method="post" action="http://YOURIP.COM/zm/index.php" target ...

yes , I have bt878 too and I am using 2 cards with 4 camera 25 FPS (PAL) with one camera, even < 2FPS with 2 cameras (I did not test with 4 camera) now I am waiting 4 chip bt878 cards .... seems that we can not expect more from $14 card (from dealextreme) and it is still more cheaper to have 3 of ...

I will test it , I am not sure this one will help

ulimit -n still show 1024 after that

so You suggest increasing to 100 000?

by the way this file is not present by default in Slackware , but I read that
"if you create that file /etc/sysctl.conf yourself, then slackware will automatically run "/sbin/sysctl -e -p /etc/sysctl.conf" everytime you boot."

I definatelly do not like to be babysitter of my Zoneminder ... The problem is when someone watch monitor for too long ... the file descriptor of the system by default is 1024 you can see it with # ulimit -a I hope I found the answer , I am testing it now .... editing apachectl (mine is here - /usr ...

I am getting this error message in apache logs

"Too many open files in system"

is it related to zoneminder ? or not ?

any resolution?

all other videos generation is working fine .... I do not understand you really :( here more info ffmpeg log from the event directory FFmpeg version 0.6, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers built on Oct 19 2010 14:56:00 with gcc 4.4.4 configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib ...

ok , no one answer ... please just someone tell me if your Slackware installation is working and producing 3gp video

Hello, seems that everything is working for me but producing 3gp video 3gp video is blank (or black I am not sure) where to look , log file video.log tells me that video is produced it is almost the same size as the avi and other formats , but it is blank my server is Slackware 13.1 all libraries ...

may be you are putting other mod (Device Format) , are you sure that you camera is PAL ? my was PAL , after playing with "xawtv" and changing the formats I found that it is "PAL NC" also it is working (form me) with palette YUV422 so better check your camera documentation (if it exist if not play ...

does china card dvrc100 works?

what is the chipset of the card ? does someone know ?