No video in ZM, but XAWTV works fine...

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swimboy
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Joined: Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:35 pm

Post by swimboy »

I've got the same camera, and am running a stock Centos 5.4 distro compiling the 32-bit version from scratch and am seeing the same issues.

I'm not much of a programmer, but I can apply patches and provide any other info the developers may need to help resolve this.
divolb
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Same problem different camera

Post by divolb »

I have the same problem, but a different camera. Rosewill RCM-3201v. The camera functions on Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop, but will not work with Ubuntu Server 9.04 and Zoneminder 1.24.2. My camera is also using the uvcvideo driver. V4l -info shows lots of info on the camera, but ZM refuses under any settings to show video. Under 1280 X 1024 resolution I get a giant black box. (my camera is 1.3 meagapixel) Other settings, 640 X 480 show a white box with icon.

Please Help!
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dclarke
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Post by dclarke »

tburt11 was on the right track.

See http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 9472#59472
bridgebr
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Joined: Thu Jul 08, 2010 2:35 am

Display problem on AMD64 systems

Post by bridgebr »

After a lot of time wasted, I think I found a solution. (AMD64) :idea:
Edit the file /usr/bin/zmdc.pl (#sudo gedit /usr/bin/zmdc.pl)
insert the following line: 8)

$ENV{LD_PRELOAD} = '/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so';


this line should be inserted just before the "my @daemons = (" line

just restart zoneminder and it magically works ! :shock:
jhakala
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Joined: Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:49 pm

it works with single chip camera cp-1l

Post by jhakala »

After a lot of time wasted, I think I found a solution. (AMD64)
Edit the file /usr/bin/zmdc.pl (#sudo gedit /usr/bin/zmdc.pl)
insert the following line:

$ENV{LD_PRELOAD} = '/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so';


this line should be inserted just before the "my @daemons = (" line

just restart zoneminder and it magically works !

All the above worked for me.. using cp-1l micro innovations single chip webcam. ubuntu 10.4 and zoneminder 1.24.2 rgb24 320x240 ntsc.
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wlraider70
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Re: No video in ZM, but XAWTV works fine...

Post by wlraider70 »

I added that string and I get errors

server@hyrule:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/zoneminder start
Starting ZoneMinder: syntax error at /usr/bin/zmdc.pl line 65, near "my "
Global symbol "@daemons" requires explicit package name at /usr/bin/zmdc.pl line 65.
Global symbol "@daemons" requires explicit package name at /usr/bin/zmdc.pl line 105.
Global symbol "@daemons" requires explicit package name at /usr/bin/zmdc.pl line 752.
Global symbol "@daemons" requires explicit package name at /usr/bin/zmdc.pl line 759.
Execution of /usr/bin/zmdc.pl aborted due to compilation error
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