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I had a hard time getting an init script to start Zoneminder under Gentoo. I could start it from the web interface but not from the command line or during init. I changed a few things and now have it working. First I gave the 'apache' user shell access. Second I changed the 'execute' function in ...

Looking at the code I think its zm_monitor that would be modified. It has a method called StreamImages that reads the image buffer, converts it to jpeg (or whatever is called for), and streams it to stdout. However, since a single monitor instance (from an object oriented perspective) should ...

Ok, here's where I am. I modified Cambozola to display a 4 monitor montage. Unfortunately when I ran it on the Zoneminder box it drove CPU utilization to 100%. It really couldn't keep up with the video feeds even at 5 fps. So I did some profiling on the code and found hotspots in the SplitStream ...

I discovered that cambozola also works stand-alone as a java application. Further it will take multiple urls on the command line and cycle through the camera streams. It was a fairly simple matter to modify cambozola to display a montage. I have a bit more work to do but I'll make a patch available ...

I want to display a montage to my local machine so I can view it through the tv-out feature on the motherboard. I've seen the posts where some have used mplayer to do this. While this works for me it is very cpu intensive. The encoding to mpeg by zms followed by decoding in mplayer is too much for ...

Hi Philip, I'm finally getting back to ZM after a few months. Everything is working pretty well. I was looking at the code though and found what looks like a bug. See line 71 in the 9.16-r3 version of zms.cpp. You're trying to get the 'ttl' parameter from the query string but matching the variable ...

After I run 'zmpkg.pl start' and open one of my monitors, I get no image and the /var/log/messages shows: Jul 23 05:16:12 sentry zmu[4187]: ERR [Shared memory not initialised by capture daemon] Jul 23 05:16:13 sentry zms[4191]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = ] Jul 23 05:16:13 sentry zms[4191 ...

I'm running Gentoo as well and there are a couple things I've noticed about zmpkg.pl. First I needed to use the -c switch on 'su' instead of --shell. Second, remove the single quotes from around the 'su' $command. Here's my 'su' code from the execute method: $command = "su ".ZM_WEB_USER." -c ...

Philip, Thanks for taking care of those 0.9.14 new install problems so quickly. The problem I had with Mozilla went away as well (I think it was the rapid refresh problem someone else brought up). Now I'm working with 0.9.15. A couple weeks ago I stated that zmc wouldn't capture without first ...