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Hi. I've been a long time user of ZM now (even thought it was so good, I contributed!!) I have a question for you ZM developers out there.... I am building a very special little project....... I call it "Remote-Eye Shutter" Basically, I have a Canon EOS20d DSLR camera and am looking to hook it up to ...

Been looking at the card you linked to. Looking at the markings on the chip, it is indeed a connexant, so would assume that the chipset is bt878. There is only one chip on the card, so the chip will be multiplexed to the video ports. This means the chip will provide encoding for all 4 ports ...

Search on EBay for "dvr" or "4 port capture card" that will get you loads of matches for cards. Just make sure the chipset is supported by linux - the best is the BT878. As for cameras, well any camera supporting a BNC / composite output will be able to connect to the card. You may need an adapter ...

DVR cards are a bit specialist - finding a UK supplier? Well, "needle" and "haystack" spring to mind... You will find plenty of ready made systems, but at cost! Looking around on EBay is your best bet - many people here have found a card on EB. The cards are usually rebranded versions of well made ...

Ok, I can tell you for a start that "Remote Host Path video_java.class" in the host will not give you anything. This needs to be a physical data stream, something like an mpeg or an mjpeg, etc... A java class is a binary file which accepts the data stream and shows it as the motion on the screen ...

What you have there is a frameset - the camera source image will be embedded in a page within that frameset. I would guess that from this you have used the view - properties from the menu bar at the top. That gives the frameset source and not individual pages. If the image is an mjpeg, you will be ...

There is nothing that i have found that we cant do on a linux server that we do on win2k. Yeah, the time its going to take me to set up samba as a domain controller with roaming profiles, setup the mail server, setup all the networking stuff, i could easilly just buy 2k3 server and be done with it ...

Hi All. Well, managed to get the card working, after a long time comming!! Thanks to James' help, and the link I found to the card details..... My mistake above - I said the cd install distro ha 2.6.12-12. James, you were right - it's 2.6.7.... No support for the Kodicom!! Upgraded kernel to 2.6.12 ...

James, I'm sure you have already seen this, but:

http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Kodicom_4400R

Has excellent techical documentation on how to get the card to work.

I'll look through this myself, but I'm not near the server - it's at work so I'll have to wait to try anything.

I've just been looking at the ZM distro I've been using, and apparently it's using 2.6-12-12!! I have previously installed Mandriva 2006 from a cover CD, with the same kernel and got the card to "partially" work!! I tried to use the same config on the ZM distro and it didn't work! Any reason why ...

If using the BT fusion 878 chipset, then should be okay as linux has support for this (however, having said that, I'm having a problem getting my 16 pt 878 to work at the moment!!) If you are thinking of the four card combo deal, which this supplier has, be careful as these cards don't like being ...

Thanks again for your reply! I have been reading of the imminent release of an updated live distro of zm - hopefully with the latest kernel! In the meantime, do you (or anyone else) know how to upgrade a kernel without a full reinstall or a lengthy / complicated recompile? I'm a bit of a noob with ...

Hi James Well, you seem to be doing better than me :oops: I cant get any captures at all!! I also tried the modprobe thing - didn't work for me :cry: I am using the Live CD distro of version 1.21 - patched it to 1.22, but then did a clean re-install to 1.21 again when installed the card. Am now ...

Hi. Have been running ZM for a while with USB cams - fantastic. Now need a bit more connectivity, so got a card from EBay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5863805171&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1 Cant get the thing to work - just a blue screen!! Have read all the other ...

Wow, what a fast response!!

Thanks for that. Good to know that my disk will be spared for another day!

Regards,

Glenn