xawtv fine, zoneminder see nothing.. (BT878)

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antonio.giosi
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xawtv fine, zoneminder see nothing.. (BT878)

Post by antonio.giosi »

I think this should be easy to solve, because xawtv works fine.. so appreciate any help..

I'm using Ubuntu freshly installed with 2.6.27-11-generic
kernel, I installed the ubuntu packaged zoneminder 1.23.3-3 version.

Now checking the xawtv gives fully working videos while instead zoneminder's monitors are blank!

It several days I fiddle with zoneminder but building from scratch the latest version didn't change much so prefer first to work with this pre-packaged version..

Below all the info, I did first a

rmmod bttv
modprobe bttv card=77

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dmesg | less | grep btt
[  583.859721] bttv: driver version 0.9.17 loaded
[  583.859736] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
[  583.870278] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
[  583.870324] bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:0d.0, irq: 11, latency: 64, mmio: 0xcfdfe000
[  583.871809] bttv0: using: GrandTec Multi Capture Card (Bt878) [card=77,insmod option]
[  583.871896] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00f36fff [init]
[  583.872726] bttv0: tuner absent
[  583.873637] bttv0: registered device video0
[  583.874648] bttv0: registered device vbi0
[  583.874694] bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
[  587.606872] bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
[  592.620622] bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok

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lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 735 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF

any suggestion? I don't know how to fiddle with the zoneminder perl code so don't know where the perl fails to probe the camera!
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cordel
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Post by cordel »

This all looks good assuming that 77 is the correct card type for your capture card.

What errors do you have in zmdc.log and/or apache error_log?
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