Getting Lines

ditalian · Post by **ditalian** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:09 pm

Hello,

Im trying to setup a 21 camera system using zoneminder. The problem I am getting is some cameras...if theres motion... it displays black lines all across where the motion is.

What would be causing this?

Im using 2xpv149 (i believe?) cards from bluecherry
they each have 8 outputs... with 8 dedicated chips

I have the card at autodetect and it detects it as number 8? Is this correct?

Thanks

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:38 pm

what chipset on your motherboard and what framrate you running?

curtishall · Post by **curtishall** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:52 pm

The PV-149 is a 4 port card with 4 chips. You may have the PV-183 (?) which is 8 ports with 8 chips.

The PV-149 should be auto detected as the PV-150

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(card=98)

ditalian wrote:Hello,

Im trying to setup a 21 camera system using zoneminder. The problem I am getting is some cameras...if theres motion... it displays black lines all across where the motion is.

What would be causing this?

Im using 2xpv149 (i believe?) cards from bluecherry
they each have 8 outputs... with 8 dedicated chips

I have the card at autodetect and it detects it as number 8? Is this correct?

Thanks

Normando · Post by **Normando** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:17 am

These lines always still there when you have inputs without a camera attached to them. Please, disable these open inputs and set to NONE.

Please, post the results.

ditalian · Post by **ditalian** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:18 am

Yes sorry curtis...

it is the 183

whats this supposed to be set at? (card=?)

curtishall · Post by **curtishall** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 4:34 am

ditalian wrote:Yes sorry curtis...

it is the 183

whats this supposed to be set at? (card=?)

98 will work for the PV-183:

https://secure.bluecherry.net/support/i ... rticleid=8

TrOjAn · Post by **TrOjAn** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:45 am

ditalian wrote:Hello,

Im trying to setup a 21 camera system using zoneminder. The problem I am getting is some cameras...if theres motion... it displays black lines all across where the motion is.

What would be causing this?

Im using 2xpv149 (i believe?) cards from bluecherry
they each have 8 outputs... with 8 dedicated chips

I have the card at autodetect and it detects it as number 8? Is this correct?

Thanks

I get that if the resolution is set too high, dropping it down loses the lines.. not ideal but might be worth a try.

What res are you running in?

TrOjAn

ditalian · Post by **ditalian** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:51 pm

320x240

dont think I can really run it lower

Post by **cordel** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:21 pm

Try turning debug up to 5 and enable it. Set the debug log to /var/log/zoneminder/zmdebug.log (or what ever path you have configured for your zm logs).
Run tail -f /var/log/messages /var/log/zoneminder/zm*.log

I'm guessing that you might be tight on shared memory. If so it will show in the logs. If you don't see an error saying there is not enough shared memory, consider running a memtest.

Also try running demsg from the command line, any errors from the card regarding sync issues usually show up here (not in /var/log/dmesg though as it's only populated during bootup).

ditalian · Post by **ditalian** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:21 pm

I checked the loggs and no errors at all....

I only get the lines when theres some sort of movement in the picture.

Is there anything else I can check? I've exhausted all the options I know of

Normando · Post by **Normando** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 12:47 am

I have the similar problem with kodicon cards. I have two of them. When I have set to 640 x 480 I get these lines over the movement. What is the problem?
At the end I have set as 400 x 300.
I don't know if the problem are the cards, the driver or ZM installation.
Can you try to disable ACPI in the bios? ACPI=OFF
Can you try to capture the images from another program?

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