Colour not working

Post by **cordel** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:33 pm

Yeah I would think so. There is also the possibility that the camera uses a differant size than the card.

gungner · Post by **gungner** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:58 pm

but if the size works with Grey, why should it not work with colour? doesn't make any sense. I can use the same size and colour with camstream, but zmc crashes with exit code=255. What more can I do?

cheers,
tord

Post by **cordel** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:34 pm

In your options under the Config tab try unchecking the ZM_STRICT_VIDEO_CONFIG and see if that helps.

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:34 am

One thing to be careful of is that if you have your settings set to grey then the shared memory is allocated as WxHx1 per frame. If you then change to colour this needs to be WxHx3 per frame. This means that the shared memory storage needs to grow, which it can't so it is destroyed and recreated. However if something is hanging onto the segment (such as a zms streaking daemon) then this doesn't happen.

When doing any change that results in a higher storage requirement it is always safest to restart ZM completely. This is assuming you don't just have the shared memory limit problem detailed in the FAQ and README.

Phil

gungner · Post by **gungner** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:52 am

Cheers

It works now! The trick was to restart ZM after changing to RGB24, it now works like a dream!

Thanks again for helping me out.

Cheers,
tord

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:14 am

Good. I think I should probably make that a bit clearer in the docs.

Phil