Support for multiple usb webcams

[ionet]

Ive been trying to use more than 1 usb webcam but i came to the conclusion it cannot be done. That would be a great feature.
If you can do it right now pelase tell me how. i am running ubuntu 8.04 with zoneminder 1.22.3

thanx

[kingofkya]

You can run more than a cam for sure. Did you set the shared memory bigger? Check you logs then ask for help.

[cordel]

Check your driver, check the other post.
ZM can take any local video device available through the V4L driver. It's not a ZM limitation.

[jcglt]

It seems that my webcam cannot work currently with ZM as I get the following message to a zmy request :

"Error, failed to query crop: /dev/video0: Invalid argument" from zmu -q -v.


I just stopped trying to use my webcam until a bug is corrected according to the following post :

PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:53 am Post subject: Reply with quote
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 9472#59472

[jameswilson]

once / if your webcam works with your distro then it will work with zm. I do remeber issues with multiple cams per usb bus, but again that is a driver / linux issue not a zm one.