Problems with setting camera resolution

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cactus23
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Problems with setting camera resolution

Post by cactus23 »

Hello,

thank you very much for this nice software. It is running great but I have small problem to set up correct camera resolutions.

I use a Ituner Spectra 8 - Video Card and some different cameras. Problem is to set higher resolutions than 320x240. In different software (for example "Motion") I can use 720x576 PAL resolution without changing anything. I use debian etch with self compiled but very close to standard debian 2.6.15 Kernel.

In zoneminder is everything higher than 320x240 not possible. If I use zmu to query my video device it will say me that max resolution is 924x576. But what meens windows attributes with 320x240 or how can I change this.

Many greetings

cactus.


zmu-query

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cactus@video01:~$ zmu -q -v -d /dev/video0 -U admin -P admin
Video Capabilities
  Name: BT878 video (ProVideo PV150)
  Type: 171
    Can capture
    Can tune
    Overlay onto frame buffer
    Can clip
    Scalable
  Video Channels: 2
  Audio Channels: 0
  Maximum Width: 924
  Maximum Height: 576
  Minimum Width: 48
  Minimum Height: 32
Window Attributes
  X Offset: 0
  Y Offset: 0
  Width: 320
  Height: 240
Picture Attributes
  Palette: 1 - Linear greyscale
  Colour Depth: 8
  Brightness: 32768
  Hue: 32768
  Colour :32768
  Contrast: 32768
  Whiteness: 0
Channel 0 Attributes
  Name: Composite0
  Channel: 0
  Flags: 2
    Channel has audio
  Type: 2 - Camera
  Format: 0 - PAL
Channel 1 Attributes
  Name: Composite1
  Channel: 1
  Flags: 2
    Channel has audio
  Type: 2 - Camera
  Format: 0 - PAL
cactus@video01:~$


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Post by zoneminder »

Make sure you restart ZM fully if you are increasing capture sizes. This is especially the case if you are getting messages about shared memory. If not what errors do you see?
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Post by cactus23 »

Hello Phil,

thank you very much for your fast answer. You are right, I didn´t restart zoneminder before.

Now this will work if I make a restart of zoneminder after changing camera/monitor settings. It is working fine.

Many thanks and greetings

Cactus
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