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Hey blackpot, You're right in your discovery. Someone has actually written a few patches to the RTSP library to make it work with newer cameras. I've never understood why we have both the RTSP and FFMPEG source options but I would say this goes back to when FFMPEG's RTSP support was crappy. Don't ...

I did see that, didn't know that puppet config had been updated to use 1.26. Trying now!

What's the line to do it on Ubuntu 12.04 server? Should I be using the Ubuntu-supplied avconv or be building ffmpeg from source? Have tried building ffmpeg from source but I get a whole lot of errors when coming to compile ZM: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/include -I/root/ffmpeg_build/include ...

I did it source : remote protocol http remote host name <user>:<password>@<ip_dir> remote host path: /record/current.jpg don't forget that the resolutions has to be the same between camera and zoneminder configuration. Just thought that I'd promote this - I spent AGES trying FFMPEG combinations and ...

Can you be a bit more informative? Please post some output from the compilation and your configure options etc (if you can pull it out of the ebuild?)

The other alternative is to add the following to the output options: -b 20000000 which makes the bitrate of the output video 2mbit

Have you got the correct packages installed for memory mapping? Can't recall off the top of my head what they are but I believe you also need support for it in your kernel

Fabietto: glad my guide worked! Was mildy worried it wasn't complete enough but turns out it was!

We mainly use AirCams in all of our installations. They work fine when set up as an ffmpeg source camera with the URL as rtsp://x.x.x.x/live/ch00_0
Width 1280
Height 720

Make sure you are running the latest AirCam firmware as earlier versions had RTSP bugs!

Hi Nextime,

I'm now getting zma crashes with your wonderful ANPR plugin. Unfortunately the only debug info I get says it exited abnormally. So I am unsure what I should be doing to debug this. Can you provide some insight? I'd like to help out get this as stable as possible.

Cheers
Chris

Write one yourself! We would all be very grateful

The problem is due to the libav/ffmpeg split and all the deprecated functions that resulted from this. Please see the HowTo I wrote to help you with this: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_Server_12.04_64-bit_with_Zoneminder_1.25.0_from_source Let me know how you get on. I haven't been ...

Hi Nextime, Loving your work here. I have tried and tried and only just finally have I found out why the code wasn't compiling on Ubuntu. Your checks inside configure.ac aren't quite right. Here is a diff to show you what I've changed based on the libav9-ftbfs patch that is going to be part of the ...

OK I have already done it

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... rom_source

Give it a go and let me know how you get on.

Chris

There is actually a patch that someone has submitted to launchpad that seems to fix the issue. I used it the other day to compile ZoneMinder 1.25.X for the first time ever on Ubuntu!

I will write a how-to and get back to you soon. Probably within the next week