Unable to connect local camera

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theorlyfactor
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Unable to connect local camera

Post by theorlyfactor »

Hello,

I have been trying to get Zoneminder 1.24.2 running on a Fedora 11 machine for some time now. I have a USB camera connected to the box that I am able to see just fine when I tested it with VLC using V4L2, but Zoneminder is unable to see the camera.

lsusb shows the camera is there:

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Bus 001 Device 024: ID 046d:0994 Logitech, Inc. QuckCam Orbit/Sphere AF
Attempted to use zmu to query the camera, this was returned:

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[root@zoneminder ~]# zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v
Error, failed to query crop /dev/video0: Invalid argument
zmdc.log contains these errors:

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12/14/2009 13:38:13.136315 zmdc[10301].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 6]
Anybody know why zoneminder won't pick this camera up?
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cordel
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Post by cordel »

Check and see if the driver supports getting snapshots with xawtv. If you can get an image snapshot through xawtv then you should be able to get it working in zm.
theorlyfactor
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Post by theorlyfactor »

I was able to see an image with xawtv, but it failed to grab an image.
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