Server configuration:
Linux CentOS 4.6 (Final) 2.6.9-67.0.15.EL
ZoneMinder 1.22.3
Apache/2.0.52R
On Win XP / Win 2000 Professional etc wokstations.
Running monitor (Montage) display.
Displays fine on these clients.
CentOS client (2.6.9-67.0.15.EL)
But if I try to use the monitor display a CentOS (laptop) using (Fire4fox 1.5.0.12) I do no get the monitors displayed, rather I get the message:
"Click here to download plugin"
And when I click to download the plugin I get:
"Welcome to the Plugin Finder Service" - but it fails to find the required plugin ("No suitable pligins were found").
Any ideas what plugin I am missing?
Thanks.
ZM: display in Firefox misses a plugin
Most US based distro's can not naively play any mpeg based streams due to patents and required royalties. Since Linux is Open Source and your download of the distro is free, these open source distros do not pay the royalties to the patent holders for each download and thus do not include them in the distribution so they do not have to deal with the wrath from those holders.
There are other repos that do provide these facilities how ever but that means putting another repo like rpmforge or livina, etc on your machine and sorting out what you want updated from what is available, and these repos can break things and some times do break things especially if you don't know what your doing. The support from them is certainly not like CentOS and using them definitely puts you on your own for support. They are there but use at your own risk.
The other option would be to switch ZM to jpeg streaming and use cambozola java app for your winblows machines or use Firefox on them as Firefox supports mjpeg naively.
There are other repos that do provide these facilities how ever but that means putting another repo like rpmforge or livina, etc on your machine and sorting out what you want updated from what is available, and these repos can break things and some times do break things especially if you don't know what your doing. The support from them is certainly not like CentOS and using them definitely puts you on your own for support. They are there but use at your own risk.
The other option would be to switch ZM to jpeg streaming and use cambozola java app for your winblows machines or use Firefox on them as Firefox supports mjpeg naively.
Thanks for that. I'm happy enough tinkering about in Linux with yum/rpm etc installation of non-standard packages. I'll look into that.cordel wrote:...The support from them is certainly not like CentOS and using them definitely puts you on your own for support. They are there but use at your own risk.
Can you confirm which ZM options I'd need to be be looking at enabling/displaying?cordel wrote:...
The other option would be to switch ZM to jpeg streaming and use cambozola java app for your winblows machines or use Firefox on them as Firefox supports mjpeg naively.
I assume I should be looking in the Options/Images configuration page, at the likes of:
- ZM_STREAM_METHOD (currently set to 'mpeg').
ZM_OPT_CAMBOZOLA (currently blank because not installed)
I've also just noticed that I have ZM_MPEG_LIVE_FORMAT and ZM_MPEG_REPLAY_FORMAT set to 'asf' (because I capture from a Linksys webcam that generates same). Should I actually be leaving this blank? Or is this param able to contain a list?
I have to confess I find the documentation a little confusing when trying to configure the myriad of options!
