Fedora 17 and ffmpeg libraries problem

[eeyore]

Hi,

I installed Zoneminder 1.25 to Fedora 17 and there has been several problems. Many of those I solved but this is making me crazy. I am trying to get connected to Vivotek network cam but there is no picture. ZM system log says "You must have ffmpeg libraries installed to use remote camera protocol 'rtsp' for monitor 1".

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ffmpeg version 0.10.4
  libavutil      51. 35.100 / 51. 35.100
  libavcodec     53. 61.100 / 53. 61.100
  libavformat    53. 32.100 / 53. 32.100
  libavdevice    53.  4.100 / 53.  4.100
  libavfilter     2. 61.100 /  2. 61.100
  libswscale      2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  libswresample   0.  6.100 /  0.  6.100
  libpostproc    52.  0.100 / 52.  0.100

Any ideas what is wrong with this?

[Carrier82]

This might be a stupid basic question, but do you have OPT_FFMPEG enabled in options / image tab?

[eeyore]

It is enabled and path is /usr/bin/ffmpeg

[eeyore]

Btw, I installed ffmpeg after ZM installation. Does it matter?

[knight-of-ni]

Yes. It matters.
Did you compile zoneminder from source?
Zoneminder's .configure detects the presence of ffmpeg. If it does not find it, then zoneminder will not compile with ffmpeg support.

[eeyore]

No I did not, I followed the instructions from here http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Fedora

I would be grateful to get information how to complain it from source.

[knight-of-ni]

There are two bits of information that lead to me believe that the Fedora Zoneminder rpm package developer did not include ffmpeg support:

- Executing "yum install zoneminder" should have automatically installed ffmpeg as a dependency for you.

- Looking at the rpm spec file used to build the package, there is mention of a "zoneminder-1.25.0-noffmpeg.patch". There is a comment associated with this patch at the end of the spec file:

* Sat Apr 11 2009 Martin Ebourne <martin@zepler.org> - 1.24.1-2
- Added noffmpeg patch to make building outside mock easier

You could try to contact Martin for clarification.
You could try to compile zoneminder yourself from source.
Lastly, you could try to rebuild the rpm source file I've got here, but it was created for CentOS:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... =9&t=19119

If you are lucky, the following command will create an rpm that will work on your system and off you go:

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rpmbuild --rebuild zoneminder-1.25.0svn3639-1.el6.src.rpm