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Wow, that was a lot of trouble for a simple problem. Remember the part about making it better? I see I'm not the first with a similar issue: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12089 I did edit the wiki to address the topic over at: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Main ...

Curiously: # zmc -d /dev/video0 Results in video, right in the same browser window that had black before! It captures about 1fps, or maybe a little less (half a frame per second). Though, the events look pretty messed up Id Name Time Secs Frames Score 13 New Event 1969-12-31 16:00:00 16429971.74 ...

Enabling "Options->Debug" EXTRA_DEBUG at level 9 results in no files in /var/log/zm, and lot of files in /tmp /tmp/zmdc.log has nothing useful: 05/08/2011 22:35:14.086924 zmdc[3067].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0] 05/08/2011 22:35:14.088415 zmdc[3067].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0 ...

I'd rather get it fixed and fully supported, as opposed to hacking it out or working around it. I will donate hardware.

With the above settings and the C260 camera, /var/log/zm is empty. But /var/log/messages has: May 8 08:36:26 bnesbitt-desktop zma_m6[17621]: last message repeated 17 times May 8 08:36:26 bnesbitt-desktop zmdc[2899]: INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0] May 8 08:36:26 bnesbitt-desktop ...

I've seen that, but it also implies ZM should be able to get UVC cameras working directly:

NOTE: As of July 21 2008 support for V4L2 drivers has been incorporated into Zoneminder 1.24.0 [1], rendering this method not required for most uvcvideo enabled cams.

With those settings I get a black square.
The camera was purchased in the USA, but NTSC does the same.

For this camera guvcview works perfectly. xawtv comes up immediately showing video. The device shows as supported over at the UVC support page at "ideasonboard". With ZoneMinder I get a red device name and (at best) a black video square. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS , set up via the Ubuntu page on ...

There is a typo in the script "kernel.shmmall" is misspelled.

Thanks for the patch. I'm getting a similar error with a Logitech Webcam C260: xxxxx:~$ zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v Error, failed to query crop /dev/video0: Invalid argument xxxxx:~$ zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v -V1 Video Device: /dev/video0 Video Capabilities Name: UVC Camera (046d:081a) Type: 1 Can ...