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i know this sounds silly, but have you verified that you have video from the camera by connecting it to a television ?

i had the same issue with a similar card with debian... I was running an older 2.6 series kernel and then updated to the 2.6.15 kernel and it solved my 'black screen' issues in fact my dmesg output was almost identical to yours.

first of all i want to thank you guys for a wonderful application! i have zm setup on a debian box with 2 4 port cards and 5 cams. everything seems to function wonderfully except the video generation portion. the following is the version of ffmpeg i am using along with an excerpt from the zmvideo ...