Can't generate vidoe

[Saulius2006]

Hi,

I'm trying to generate a video from event.
I followed all instructions from ZoneMinder wiki but stil if I'm clicking on generate video button it's trying to generate and gives error Video Generation Failed. I tried in different video formats but it's same error.
OPT_FFMPEG Option is tagged.

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[mikb]

Er, does your FFMPEG binary really live in "/media/Video/ZoneMinder/videos" (PATH_FFMPEG) ??

Mine lives in /usr/local/bin ... suggest you "which ffmpeg" or "where ffmpeg" to find its location.

[knight-of-ni]

First, click the "?" next to PATH_FFMPEG and then read the help text.

Not sure why you changed PATH_FFMPEG from the default, but you've got a folder name listed there when you should have the full path to the ffmpeg binary. Do what mikb suggested to find the correct value for your system. It will more than likely be something like "/usr/bin/ffmpeg" or "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg", but that depends on what distro you are using and how you installed ffmpeg.

[Saulius2006]

Thanks for advise.

I change the ffmpeg path and it seems that it's working.
But I can't find the generated video file.
Can you please advise me, path to created video files.

[rockedge]

the path to the generated video for example would look like this:

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/var/cache/zoneminder/events/4/16/08/21/23/35/28/Event-3-r1-s1.avi

somewhere in the events directory set in your config.

hope that helps.

[mikb]

As to reasons for changing the PATH_FFMPEG: ... I suspect the OP was trying to change where FFMPEG *puts* the videos, so that it doesn't bury them all in sub directories of zoneminder/events.