FUBAR

[4evernoob]

Thats where I'm heading with this.
Originally the post would have been about incorrect video format as I would get what looked like PAL in triplicate in the video diplay when it should be NTSC. But things seem to be progressing in a death spiral towards FUBAR.
First some background:
Centos 5.2
BT878 video (Hauppauge (bt878))
Video displays fine with Xawtv
"Now" using ZM v1.24.1 compiled
FFmpeg 0.5 compiled
libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
libavcodec 52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0
libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0

This is /var/log/messages

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Mar 19 17:58:02 centos zmpkg[29030]: INF [Command: start]
Mar 19 17:58:03 centos zmdc[29044]: INF [Server starting at 09/03/19 17:58:03]
Mar 19 17:58:06 centos zmdc[29069]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' started at 09/03/19 17:58:06]
Mar 19 17:58:06 centos zmdc[29044]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 09/03/19 17:58:06, pid = 29069]
Mar 19 17:58:06 centos zmc_dvideo0[29069]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Mar 19 17:58:06 centos zmc_dvideo0[29069]: INF [Starting Capture]
Mar 19 17:58:06 centos zmc_dvideo0[29069]: ERR [Capture failure for frame 0: Invalid argument]
Mar 19 17:58:06 centos zmc_dvideo0[29069]: ERR [Failed to prime capture of initial monitor]
Mar 19 17:58:06 centos zmdc[29044]: ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
Mar 19 17:58:06 centos zmdc[29044]: INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0]

This is /tmp/zmdc.log

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03/19/2009 18:05:27.538441 zmdc[29239].INF [Server starting at 09/03/19 18:05:27]
03/19/2009 18:05:30.735852 zmdc[29239].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 09/03/19 18:05:30, pid = 29262]
03/19/2009 18:05:30.780449 zmdc[29239].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
03/19/2009 18:05:30.781111 zmdc[29239].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0]
03/19/2009 18:05:30.783312 zmdc[29239].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 09/03/19 18:05:30, pid = 29265]
03/19/2009 18:05:30.817687 zmdc[29239].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 255]

After I could not get the video to display I compiled the latest ffmpeg and now it can't find the camera at all where as before with version.4.x of ffmpeg I could see some garbled video. After searching this forum trying to get ideas I seem to be making things worse the more I try. Little help please.

[zoneminder]

If you can put on zmc debug up to about level 5 and post the section around where you get the error then that might help figure out what is happening.