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Thank you! Never knew that you could generate video from the filter mechanism before... while I had to manually generate the videos for this incident, this knowledge should come in handy if there's an issue in the future.

Well, that certainly didn't take long... Went into zmvideo.pl to see if I could figure out what was being passed to ffmpeg so I could run it manually... and found that the OPT_FFMPEG flag is being checked. Looked in the options and sure enough, RIGHT ABOVE the path to ffmpeg that I've edited half a ...

I have a system running ZoneMinder v1.36.33 on Debian 12 that's been operational for about the past 6-8 months. We just had an incident & I have been asked to provide evidence to the police. I isolated the events that we need & have archived all of them, but when I go to generate video for them, the ...

We are possibly having issues with janitors after hours. I set up an older IP camera & linked it to our existing ZoneMinder box to record the activity in the area in question after we close. It's working fine, but have run into a couple things that I'm more curious about than anything: 1. It's set ...

Well, I have good news and bad news. I'm going to document what I found & did for the benefit of anyone who might have similar issues in the future and find this thread. This was uncovered while digging into the whole card 42 vs card 98 thing. I discovered that if I pass card=42,42,42,42,42,42,42,42 ...

Just a theory, but maybe things quitting/exitting is a sign of something fundamentally wrong -- so wrong, in fact, that syslogd/klogd or the equivalent part of systemd ... is exitting too . This means that the normal path of messages (that would be captured, filtered and filed according to your ...

Yep - ssh session was disconnected. Couldn't connect via ssh again or even ping the machine. Didn't check caps / num lock. I did give it the three finger salute multiple times, even holding them down for about 10 seconds, in the hope of getting it to reboot cleanly. This is the first I've heard of ...

I recently installed on Debian (which is what Ubuntu is built on) and do not remember having to manually create the database. Maybe try reinstalling from apt to trigger the scripts again? Or remove, reboot, and then install? (Sorry I do not have better ideas - just trying to come up with something ...

OK, looks like I've gotta find and fix the source of this if I'm to have a stable system... I left the zmaudit.pl script ( https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=33055 ) running when I clocked out last night to clean up events that were left behind after destroying & recreating the file ...

FYI, the zmaudit.pl script finished and left several thousand events behind in the database that do not exist on the disk. Ran it several times & all it reported was several lines of 'Deleted 10 log table entries by time'. Had to create a custom filter to delete all events older than a few days ago ...

Thank you - running zmaudit is cleaning up the database as I write this.

I installed and used a very old ZoneMinder box. When it died last year, I installed 1.36.33 on a newer system. Unfortunately, I ran into an issue where the ]inode table got full ( https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=33019 ) and ZM was complaining the disk was full even though there was ...

Is there a cap on how many files XFS can store? Research indicates 2^64 - 1 as the limit, which I would think more than sufficient. Given my inexperience with the file system type, I don't know if there's anything I need to set when creating the file system to achieve this or if it's automatic. If I ...

XFS XFS or XFS. :lol: Anything I should be aware of or do while creating the file system? Have you actually used XFS for ZoneMinder? My research indicates that it's geared towards having larger files & suffers when there are many small files being saved. (And hey - I read it on the internet, so it ...

I've never tampered with the inode-count settings, but a quick man mkfs.ext3 reminds me that you can set this when creating the filesystem. Not sure you can update it/tune it later though ... Saw that option & found documentation about it that unfortunately states it is not something tweakable ...