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I've got Zoneminder to work with iSight over firewire via Corander's v4l export. The problem I haven't yet overcome is how to disable the isights auto-shutoff. When the iSight is idle for a period of time it seems to shutoff and send a black screen. Have you been able to overcome this?

fyi, iSight does work on Linux, (im using slackware 10.1). I've got it to work with ZoneMinder via coriander's v4l export. One issue I havn't yet solved is how to disable the isight's auto-shutoff. It seems if there are no events for a while the screen just turns black and you have to restart the ...

I also can get isight to come up under /dev/video1394/0 . While I have got it to work with coriander (http://damien.douxchamps.net/ieee1394/c ... /index.php) I have not yet got it to work with ZoneMinder. Has any body made any progress with this?

I'm having some problems configuring Zoneminder to see my installation of ffmpeg. I have already install Zoneminder, but I really want the MPEG streaming to work. This is what I get: checking for avcodec_init in -lavcodec... no configure: WARNING: libavcodec.a is required for MPEG streaming checking ...