Unable to Export Video

[PowerfulWebsites]

I've got an install of 1.22.3 running under FC8.

It seems to be running just fine, although I cannot figure out how to export mpeg videos.

I installed the zoneminder-1.22.3-9.fc8.rpm as well as the ffmpeg rpm and all of it's dependencies.

I did install zoneminder first and then ffmpeg, could that be the problem.

And if, so what is the best way to go about fixing it.

Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

-- Ryan

[cordel]

ffmpeg is patent incumbered so Fedora does not build the package with the ability.

[PowerfulWebsites]

Regardless, I found an ffmpeg rpm for FC8.

http://atrpms.net/dist/f8/ffmpeg/

This was the only really helpful thread I found on the forum that discussed how to get zoneminder to output video files.

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9795

However, I'm still having problemls in that the mpeg files that are output after adding this patch seem to have a framerate of 42fps and I wasn't able to tweek the script to output an mpeg with a lower framerate.

Any help on how to get zoneminder to output video files would be greatly appreciated.

[cordel]

regardless.... The zm package has to be built with ffmpeg. Fedora does not build any packages against patent encumbered packages there for Fedoras ZM package was not compliled with ffmpeg support.

[PowerfulWebsites]

Gotcha.

I'll try compiling it from source and see what I get.

Thanks for your help!

[Acadien]

Make sure you have the right path, for my install on centos the default zm path was wrong, my path is /usr/bin/ffmpeg.

[technicavolous]

Did you ever solve this? I was just about to start a fedora install and without ffmpeg it would be kind of a problem.

I found a fc8 rpm here -
<http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/s ... mit=Search+...>

and the ffmpeg and other requirements using freshrpms repository -
<http://freshrpms.net/>

Is this bad path? I"m new to fedora ...
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