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Hello, I'd really appreciate some help with the following problem I've had since upgrading from 1.26.4 to 1.26.5 on Ubuntu 13.04 I'm getting the following error in the log: 2013-12-27 09:28:44.326630 zmdc 2959 ERR 'zmfilter.pl ' exited abnormally, exit status 9 zmdc.pl 2013-12-27 09:28:44.112440 zmd...

Thanks to everyone who suggested adding ?tcp to the end of the Hikvision camera feed url.

I've now managed to get my cameras to work

Steve I am having a very similar problem. I'm using the same Hikvision camera. The stream works fine in VLC. I too am getting an unreliable ffmpeg stream in zoneminder. The error in the log is "Unable to read packet from stream 0: error -541478725" Can anyone suggest a solution? I'm using ...

Try this:
rtsp://username:password@ipaddress:554/streaming/channels/1