Very bad Picture and zmu error515

monoblaine · Post by **monoblaine** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 7:14 pm

Hey there,

I've got a problem with zoneminder.
I bought an Easycap DC60 VideoGrabber.
It works fine with vlc or mplayer.
But in zoneminder there is an really bad picture.

So i've tried to get the right settings with zmu but i get only "error 515"
"Error, failed to get video capabilities /dev/easycap0: Unknown error 515"

So can anybody tell me which are the right colour pallette settings ?
If I choose v4l1 it shows me nothing. I don't understand this.
I've tried a lot of different settings, but it isn't going better.

When I put my hand on the right cameras record edge, it appears on the screen from left.

My System is Ubuntu 9.10.
I've tried it on an other machine, the same problem.

Please help.
Thank you

monoblaine · Post by **monoblaine** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:52 am

No idea ?
Come on, please help me

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 8:06 pm

If noone uses one succesfully, then none of us will have any idea. Is this a USB type thing?

monoblaine · Post by **monoblaine** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:40 pm

First of all, thank you for your answer

Yes EasyCap is a USB device.

I think the problem is ZM it self.
Every program shows me correct the picture from the grabber (via /dev/easycap0).
Only ZM shows me a bad picture.

Here's a screenshot:
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/250/bi ... ewfeed.png

And here one from the sourcesettings:
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/240/ ... onitor.png

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:22 am

ok
first of all why pal b? id assume ntsc given your res?

i would also suggest you drop to 320x240 till we get it working properly.

looks like to me that its pulling multiple images in on one channel.
Can you limit the fps to say 1 for now?

monoblaine · Post by **monoblaine** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:02 pm

Hi,

PAL B is caused by the cam. I live in Germany and here we have PAL.
The device supports PAL.
(For sure, I can see it with vlc, a perfect picture, only ZM makes trouble)

I set the FPS to 1 but it shows me the same bad picture.

Could it be that the "capturing" by ZM makes trouble ?

Thank you

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:13 pm

i dunno, but are you not on the same pal system as we are on in the uk?

monoblaine · Post by **monoblaine** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:59 pm

I don't know.

Do you have a idea about the zmu error ?

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:24 pm

i would suggest the zmu error is because the driver either isnt reporting the caperbilities correctly or inst reporting anything.

The fact you have it partially working makes me think its a format issue. Have you tried different formats and restarting zm in between changes?

monoblaine · Post by **monoblaine** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:11 pm

I tried a lot of format combinations. But I didn't restart zm.
I've waited a few seconds (until the color of the entry changed from yellow into red with some combinations

)

What about streaming the devices (with motion it works on localhost:8081 ) into zm ?`But zm dont accept the settings ?
Dou you know the right settings for motion to zm ?
Or do you know a good streaming tool ?

Question after question

I'm sorry.

kingofkya · Post by **kingofkya** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:21 pm

What about streaming the devices (with motion it works on localhost:8081 ) into zm ?`But zm dont accept the settings ?
Dou you know the right settings for motion to zm ?
Or do you know a good streaming tool ?

It should accept it if its a jpeg stream check you logs something zm related is set wrong.

To see if its a jpeg stream try opeing it in firefox and see if yo get a jpeg image http://localhost:8081

also
wget http://localhost:8081

will telll you if its a jpeg

monoblaine · Post by **monoblaine** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:46 am

Yes, wget saves jpeg files.

So do you know the right zm source settings?

The Protocol is http.
Is the method simple ?
The remote host name would be localhost ?
The port 8081 for cam1/thread1
What will be hostpath and subpath ? Instead of motion.

kingofkya · Post by **kingofkya** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:59 pm

Yes, wget saves jpeg files.

So do you know the right zm source settings?

The Protocol is http.
Is the method simple ?
YES should work

The remote host name would be localhost ?
try 127.0.0.1

The port 8081 for cam1/thread1
What will be hostpath and subpath ? Instead of motion.
try just / in hostpath

monoblaine · Post by **monoblaine** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:42 am

So I think i'm not a lucky man.

With motion I got easycapstreaming working.

For my interest I bought a other Videocaputerdevice.
Socalled "Pinnacle Dazzle".
Ubuntu has no problem with this device (/dev/video1).
I executed zmu and get all the paramteres (without error

)

But I can't see any picture through ZM.
I see only where the picture should be, and a processing loading in Firefox (Monitor View).
Xawtv shows me the picture.

zmdc.log shows me this error:

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02/20/10 10:30:20.109199 zmdc[1735].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video1' exited abnormally, exit status 6]

Any idea ?

Greetings