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My night vision worked straight out of the box. I haven't seen any configuration parameters to enable or disable it, so yours may be defective.

Again, thanks for the help with the configuration.

I got it working by building the .deb package from https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder and installing that via dpkg rather than just running make install. The package is now working with Libvlc.

Got it working with libvlc

This time I built the .deb package and installed it with dpkg and everything is working. I guess the make install script just doesn't put everything where it belongs.

Thanks for everyone's help

Yes, all the libraries are installed along with the vlc application. I just don't know how to link the libraries into ZM.

I built ZM 1.27.1 from source. I have the src tree and the vlc libraries installed on my system and the build works with ffmpeg but produces log messages that say I need to have the vlc library installed when I try to use Libvlc instead of Ffmpeg as my monitor source type. What configuration ...

I guess I'll start another thread here to see if someone knows how to build it with the VLC library included. It's great to know that it does work with this camera with libvlc.

I have the same camera, its working great except the IR night visoin does not work, I am suspect that it is a defective camera. Does your night vision work? If so did you have to change any settings in the camers OS? I saw no IR option switch anywhere... Here are my settings: Source type: LibVlc ...

It seems to work fine with the VLC player at 10 fps, no glitches. When I try to use ZM with source type libvlc I get a syslog message that I need to have the VLC library loaded. Where can I load that from, and do I need to rebuild zoneminder after loading it or is it dynamically loaded? As I said ...

libvlc doesn't work at all, the monitor indicator remains red. I tried ffmpeg with both 24 and 32-bit color but it's worse than RTSP. The monitor image frequently breaks up, generating motion events. I have attached a sample jpeg.

I appreciate your suggestions.

I have since gotten it to improve by changing the remote method from RTSP/unicast to RTP/RTSP and reducing the camera's frame rate (on the camera's admin page) from 12 fps to 5 fps. It still gets the RTSP time outs, but only about every 15 minutes. It's almost useable! Any help is greatly ...

I can connect to the camera and it starts to capture with ZM 1.27.1 for a few seconds using RTSP but zmc_m2 exits abnormally after producing the message "RTCP timed out".

Any idea what may be causing this?

I fixed the problem by running zm_update-1.27.1.sql in mysql.

Apparently, somehow, although the source tree I downloaded is called 1.27.0, it's actually 1.27.1. which is why the tables were missing.

Thanks for the response. When I run zmupdate.pl I get "Warning, overriding installed ./zm.conf file with local copy Database already at version 1.27, update aborted." I added the new field manually, and now I get Can't run query: Unknown column 'ExtendAlarmFrames' in 'field list' It looks like the ...

I'm trying to install Zoneminder 1.27.0 from source on 32 bit Ubuntu 12.04 and zma exits abnormally. The message is "ERR [Can't run query: Unknown column 'MotionFrameSkip' in 'field list']". I have tried deleting the database and recreating it with mysql zm < db/zm_create.sql and I still get the ...

Well, motion detection now works :D It seems the problem was permissions on the event storage directory. The zone definition does seem to work, but I still can't get the zone editing page to show the camera image. I set the zone area by approximating where the edges might be if the image were there ...