Camera settings resource / VideoSecu

[tamray]

I attempted to do a search through the forum, hoping to find settings that work for my VideoSecu camera (BNC), but not able to pull anything up to work with. Wondering if there is a doc of working settings for most cameras ?? Tried many settings using various color palettes ntsc 320x240 and 640x480, but just get green or black images (no video).

specs: VedoSecu model IR24W
Image Sensor 1/3"CCD
Resolution 480 TV Lines
NTSC
Composite

[bb99]

With a camera like that the camera makes no difference at all. Please post your capture card type and whether or not it's being recognized by the system.

[tamray]

Here is the hardware info. The card has 4 BNC inputs. Works fine with an indoor canon camera on the same input.

01:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)

description: Multimedia video controller
product: Bt878 Video Capture
vendor: Brooktree Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:01:01.0
version: 11
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vpd pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=bttv latency=64 maxlatency=40 mingnt=16
resources: irq:22 memory:f8001000-f8001fff

[bb99]

Try bringing up that camera by pointing VLC (or other) to /dev/video0 to see if it is working. If not check the camera power supply.

[tamray]

Some how my new zoneminder database became corrupt. I ran mysqlcheck against it, restarted and the video capture worked.

Thanks for the replies