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I'm sorry i couldn't work on the translation in the last month (damn work..).

sugacapra: I'm sending you my email by private address so we can work together on this..

hi,
I use a cheap capture card very similar: grandtec.

having only 1 BT chip your FPS won't go over 6.25 (25PFS / 4 sources)
but if the card has a poor multiplexing chip you'll get even less

with my grandtec I get 3 FPS each camera

If you don't mind about FPS (like me) theese cards should work

see http://www.elltel.net/melins/livecd/installer_page/

- 2 GB for /root
- a little swap partition (I use 512 MB )
- all the rest to /var

I don't have a clue on how to use 2 hd efficently.. maybe a RAID 0 ?

ciao.

Ross you could add this little software in your LiveCD http://ddclient.sourceforge.net it keeps Dynamic DNS entries updated so one can see his ZM server on the web even if he doesn't have a static IP. I did a webmin module to control it but is very bad coded and is in italian... but if someone is ...

I did a webmin module to control ZM. It does quite few things: controls zmpkg.pl (start, stop, restart, status) no multilanguage... but is a start... here it is: http://www.davidemorelli.it/public/zoneminder.tar to install: like any other webmin module untar it in /usr/share/webmin so that you get a ...

I used it on more than 10 installations.
It is the most usefull install procedure I have ever found!!
Everyone try it, will change your way of thinking a linux installer!!!

My case:
Celeron 1.5 GHz
512 RAM
4 Bt878 CaptureCards (each card has only 1 chip)
total camera attached: 16
FPS: 3/4 each
resolution: 384x288 color 24bit
buffer size: 40 frames

works fine.

you may find the solution here:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... highlight=

I hope it helps

Before install the CD you need to get the Linux System on LiveCD working.. the install procedure is simply a script that copy the current working system on your HD. To solve the mount swap problem: I don't know if will work but you can try with "livecd noswap" some link to BOOTCODES: http://www ...

how to upgrade zm: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3306&highlight=zmalter tu use WMP you have to set the streaming output file type in Options, set it to "asf". That should be enough, if not check ffmpeg documentation. WMP has a buffering issue: you will always get a 5 seconds delay ...

I might be wrong but it seems that the problem is the BTTV driver. Can you tell us exactly what card is it? (manifacturer, model, etc..) If you are lucky your card is not autodetected and you just have to tell BTTV the model it is. This happens for me with GrandXGuard16P, I have to add "bttv card ...

I don't think the problem is in perl.. I think this code will work for every version up to come... use constant ZM_PATH_BIN => "/usr/local/bin"; use constant ZM_PATH_WEB => "/var/www/html/zm"; looking at http://67.167.143.228/errors-zm/zmpkg.log.txt I noticed you had problems with executing shell ...

I am not shure I understand your question but: any video source can be watched while recording. The video streaming is done via ffmpeg while the security functions are done with zm's demons. Many clients at a time can watch the video source simultaneously, the major limit is your bandwidth (I think ...

Your configuration commands look corret, so I think it is a MySQL problem... Are you shure mysql is working well? any other software using it? I am not a mysql expert, so I can't help you much... Try googling with "Got timeout reading communication packets" and see if you can find the source and the ...

you may not have correctly set up users and permissions in mysql, can you post us the exact command you used for assigning mysql permissions? this command is needed to tell mysql what mysql users can use zm database here is mine: mysql mysql < zmschema.sql mysql mysql grant select,insert,update ...