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How are you satisfied with camera? Is it fully working under zoneminder?

Nope
And in my home I had two cameras working, not they too are just black frames.

Is there a way to troubleshoot Zoneminder and see what errors are causing this?

Thanks, it looks like VLC is working perfectly because I can view stream with other video player like mplayer, but Zoneminder still doesn't see any video coming in :( I edited shmmax and shmall and it should accept video images bigger than 320x200 because that is usuall issue with Zoneminder and cam...

Thanks, it looks like VLC is working perfectly because I can view stream with other video player like mplayer, but Zoneminder still doesn't see any video coming in :( I edited shmmax and shmall and it should accept video images bigger than 320x200 because that is usuall issue with Zoneminder and cam...

I thought about converting camera to mjpeg stream but Fedora doesn't have mjpg-stream tool packages and I'm not sure how to setup vlc to stream video that is compatible with zoneminder.

Has anybody used vlc as streamer that sends video to zoneminder ?

Hi, it is hard to give an answer to such a general question. How much linux experience do you have? Have you investigated which processes are causing this? Have you tried going step by step and seeing WHEN cpu starts working at 100%? For start read really carefully helpfull wiki page - http://www.zo...

Are there some command line tools that I could use to find out which options I should use with this usb webcam?

Hi, I finally managed to install Zoneminder on both Fedora 14 and 17, and I'll post a detailed howto very soon because all tutorials I have seen so far are lacking, and are outdated. I have used one IP webcam and got it to work without problems with zoneminder, but I'm having problems with locally c...

Search for "Zoneminder Installation With Web Camera (Part 1 of 3)" on youtube
Watch all three parts of this Zoneminder overview, it is awesome and answers your question.