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I installed 1.24.1 on Debian Lenny (stable) with no problems to speak of. One thing that did bother me is the ffmpeg version in Lenny is a bit outdated. The only format I could export to without a failure was mpg/mpeg. I don't remember how I stumbled across it, but I found this site:

http://debian-multimedia.org/

which seems to have more recent versions of various audio/video deb packages. For instance, their ffmpeg is 3:20080706-0.3. To make use of this, I did the following:

1. edit /etc/apt/sources.list and added the following line: 2. I ran "apt-get update", then "apt-get upgrade", but it told me ffmpeg was held back. So instead I ran "apt-get dist-upgrade" and it worked, upgrading ffmpeg and associated packages.

Now the only video format not working is 3gp, and I suspect with a little tweaking I can make that go too, as support for it is definitely compiled into the package.

Just thought I would pass it along,
Brian

Good, thanks for posting. Excellent tip.

Hi to all,
i'm new to this forum and to Zoneminder;
i'm trying to use Zoemindr with a linksys WVC54GC ip camera (an user in this forum tell me that i have to install 1.24.1 and set to ffmpeg to work) i'm trying to install zoneminder 1.24.1 on my ubuntu system, from source (repository only have 1.23.3 also in Jaunty Jackelope beta) following this documentation: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Documentation
but i'm not an expert in mysql and apache, and i don't know what DB name DB use and DB password in the following line: grant select,insert,update,delete on <database>.* to '<database>'@localhost identified by '<database>';

and my installation fails, there is a step by step tutorial or guide to install it on ubuntu? Alternatively i can install also Debian!!

Thanks a lot!!!

Ok, i've compiled and installed it successfully, the problem was the options --with-webgroup not specified ... now i've another problem, when i launch firefox and type localhost/zm i receive a NOT FOUND the requested url /zm was not found on this server!!!

Someone know why??

Thanks a lot!

@Liquid_85 Just a tip, but your error is unrelated to this post, therefore you should create a new thread in the forums.

@netnoggin Out of curiousity, did you install ZoneMinder 1.24 via deb? The only packages I could find were for 1.23.

EDIT: Read around the site, found links under "Documentation" to adding repos for Debian. I'm assuming there is not Ubuntu Repo as of yet.

Ok i'll open a new thread thanks a lot!