After upgrading to 1.37.x no longer recording video files

[janeturner]

Hello,
I upgraded to ZoneMinder 1.37.x. In the Recording section i have "Save JPEGs" set to Disabled, and "Video Writer" set to Encode. For encoding i am using h265/hevc as OutputCodec and hevc_qsv as the Encoder. with my goal of using the igpu to produce smaller video files and save on storage.

i do see these errors in the logs from time to time, but htey dont appear consistent enough to be the specific cause.

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Can't open video codec (hevc_qsv) Internal bug, should not have happened

this one is odd because the directory does exist with all the jpegs; could it be a permission issue creating the video file for some reason?

[dougmccrary]

Internal bug, should not have happened

I'm thinking not...

could it be a permission issue

Maybe. You could temporarily give blanket permissions to see.
Bear in mind this is a development version, so things usually are OK, but sometimes things get broken, too.

[iconnor]

Not permissions if it is able to store the jpegs.

If it is intermittent, maybe you are just exceeding the capabilities of the gpu? How many cameras are you trying to do encoding on?

[janeturner]

Internal bug, should not have happened

I'm thinking not... geometry dash lite

could it be a permission issue

Maybe. You could temporarily give blanket permissions to see.
Bear in mind this is a development version, so things usually are OK, but sometimes things get broken, too.

Thanks for your answer. I got it.