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Phil, Now that ZoneMinder is a very much a grown up and useful program, maybe it's time for this snippet below taken from the readme file, to go :) Roger -- It's still a baby but hopefully it can grow up to be something that can be genuinely useful and maybe one day either prevent similar incidents ...

Hi Fernando,

I simply removed the call to VIDIOCSWIN. The camera defaults to 640x480, so it works now. I didn't want to run at a lower resolution.

Roger

I think this is a driver bug. Basically, the Video4Linux ioctl call VIDIOCGWIN is returning data that is not acceptable input to the corresponding VIDIOCSWIN call. ZoneMinder defines the capture area by first grabing the capture window information with VIDIOCGWIN, updating the capture size and writi...

Hello everyone, I'm having trouble using ZoneMinder with a IBM PC Camera which is supported by the ibmcam driver. I'm able to use the camera with other software (the "webcam" package) on the same machine. It's only ZoneMinder that is having trouble with the camera. When I run zmc -d0, the ...

Just in case anyone else runs into the same problem, the solution was to use kernel headers from 2.6.7. Don't ask me why... I had upgraded the system from 2.4.18 to 2.6.8. It left the kernel headers at 2.4.18 and that wouldn't compile, so I symlinked /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm into the ...

Yes, I was just thinking that since it would be easy to check, there wasn't any need to run on the suspicion alone.

Does your camera or your phones have any settings to tweak the frequency?

Roger

Hi,

Did you try unplugging your phones to see if the sync problems go away?

Roger

Hello everyone, I'm having trouble building ZoneMinder 1.19.4 on Debian with kernel 2.6.8. I've been unable to find anything to help me in the faq or in the forums. I've included the error message below. Any help would me much appreciated. Thanks, Roger Dahl make all-recursive make[1]: Entering dire...