First I had to get the latest version of ZoneMinder installed as I was using 1.24.1 and have read here that many things were fixed in 1.24.2 So I went that route. Last night I finally got it working and it looked pretty good, considering the rather lo-grade camera.
At 2:00 am I decided to tweak it some. ..........
I opened firefox 3.5 with the ZM console and several other windows. I opened the Astak site to get the camera spec to try different window sizes. Astak needed flash so I downloaded flash ( I thought this was already on this sever anyway), and saved my window session which also contained a settings window for my only added monitor. Closed Firefox 3.5 and did the flash rpm. I reloaded the saved session. I decided to try the exact settings for the camera as stated on thier site in the ZM monitor settings window ( the one that was saved from the sesssion manager) . I made the changes 510X492 and clicked SAVE.
SH*T ,,SAVE KILLED ME IT DID NOT SAVE ME. <IHTMULaugh>
ZoneMinder TOTALLY does not like it if you reuse a saved window. The server instantly hung, no keyboard, no mouse, no nothing.
I did a hard reboot and now I have a dead server. The server will begin to boot, but only makes it to just before the login screen.
Server Details
CentOS5
Intel Celeron 512MB RAM
PV155 Capture Card
Latest ffmpeg
Zoneminder 1.24.2
Everything worked great before this.
HELP
