[SOLVED!] Centos 5.3 Acti TCM-4001 with ZM 1.24.2 and ffmpeg

[hik-user]

Camera model Acti TCM-4001

first of all, connect rpmforge
rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpm ... f.i386.rpm

then, install ffmpeg from repo
yum -y install ffmpeg

step 3 - configure ZoneMinder 1.24.2 with ffmpeg
./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/html/zm --with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin --with-ffmpeg=/usr/include/ffmpeg
make
make install

be sure, that Zoneminder setup established without errors!

step 4 - open your web-camera web-interface and setup
compression - MPEG4
resolution 320x240 or 640x480

step 5 - open Zoneminder web-interface and setup new monitor
source type - ffmpeg
maximum fps - 15

source path - rtsp://login:password@ip_addr:7070
Capture width - 640 (depends on your web-camera setting)
capture height - 480


* (7070 - default rtsp port on Acti TCM-4001)

[alltech]

hik,

Just say, congrates! I could not get it to work on centos. So have ubuntu installed and now its working. Even with the pakage manager installing zoneminder, it STILL has some issues. I have to manually execute the perl start script in /etc/rc2.d to make it run.

BTW, what cameras do you use to get high res?