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Support for multiple usb webcams
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 2:58 am
by ionet
Ive been trying to use more than 1 usb webcam but i came to the conclusion it cannot be done. That would be a great feature.
If you can do it right now pelase tell me how. i am running ubuntu 8.04 with zoneminder 1.22.3
thanx
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 10:54 pm
by kingofkya
You can run more than a cam for sure. Did you set the shared memory bigger? Check you logs then ask for help.
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 11:34 pm
by cordel
Check your driver, check the other post.
ZM can take any local video device available through the V4L driver. It's not a ZM limitation.
Webcam
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:37 am
by jcglt
It seems that my webcam cannot work currently with ZM as I get the following message to a zmy request :
"Error, failed to query crop: /dev/video0: Invalid argument" from zmu -q -v.
I just stopped trying to use my webcam until a bug is corrected according to the following post :
PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:53 am Post subject: Reply with quote
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 9472#59472
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:20 pm
by jameswilson
once / if your webcam works with your distro then it will work with zm. I do remeber issues with multiple cams per usb bus, but again that is a driver / linux issue not a zm one.