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Posted: **Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:15 pm**

Folks, I'm really dying here. I appear to have ZM 1.24.1 running. I have a single BT878 board in and one camera plugged into /dev/video0 and I think the first (0?) port.

The camera is a Swann small security camera. I'm in the US, the camera is marked -US in a sticker so it should be NTSC. According to the specs, that means it's 510 height by 492 width, and "380 lines" TV resolution (horizontal).

I can get it to work with xawtv with the command:

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xawtv -device /dev/video0

When I took a screenshot of the resulting image and cropped it down to just the image via Kolourpaint, it reports a resolution of 380x284.

I've tried every conceivable resolution and setting in ZM to get this damned camera working. Nothing doing. I'm at my wit's end. Somebody has to have a clue how to make ZM talk to this camera!?

Under the "source" tab I've got:

Device Path = /dev/video0

Capture method = Video for Linux version 2 (is that correct!?)

Device Channel is "0" (and I've tried more up through 9...)

Device format is NTSC (and there's other "NTSC variants available like "NTSC M" and the like...huh?)

Capture Palette is "RGB24" right now - I assume that's right?

Capture width = tried all sorts of stuff!

Capture height = ditto

"Preserve aspect ratio" is "off" right now.

Orientation is "normal".

Please GOD or anybody, why won't ZM see this camera?!?

Output from xawtv:

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zmuser@zmuser-camerastation:~$ xawtv -device /dev/video0
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.27-14-generic)
xinerama 0: 1280x1024+0+0
WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
WARNING: couldn't find framebuffer base address, try manual
         configuration ("v4l-conf -a <addr>")
v4l2: WARNING: framebuffer base address mismatch
v4l2: me=(nil) v4l=(nil)
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
zmuser@zmuser-camerastation:~$

Output from zmu:

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zmuser@zmuser-camerastation:~$ zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v
Video Device: /dev/video0
General Capabilities
  Driver: bttv
  Card: BT878 video (Hauppauge ImpactVC
  Bus: PCI:0000:01:0a.0
  Version: 0.9.17
  Type: 0x5000015
    Supports video capture (X)
    Does not support video output
    Supports frame buffer overlay
    Supports VBI capture
    Does not support VBI output
    Does not support sliced VBI capture
    Does not support sliced VBI output
    Does not support video output overlay
    Does not have tuner
    Does not have audio in and/or out
    Does not have radio
    Supports read/write i/o (X)
    Does not support async i/o
    Supports streaming i/o (X)
    Standards:
      NTSC
      NTSC-M
      NTSC-M-JP
      NTSC-M-KR
      PAL
      PAL-BG
      PAL-H
      PAL-I
      PAL-DK
      PAL-M
      PAL-N
      PAL-Nc
      PAL-60
      SECAM
      SECAM-B
      SECAM-G
      SECAM-H
      SECAM-DK
      SECAM-L
      SECAM-Lc
  Formats:
    8 bpp, gray (GREY)
    8 bpp, dithered color (HI24)
    15 bpp RGB, le (RGBO)
    15 bpp RGB, be (RGBQ)
    16 bpp RGB, le (RGBP)
    16 bpp RGB, be (RGBR)
    24 bpp RGB, le (BGR3)
    32 bpp RGB, le (BGR4)
    32 bpp RGB, be (RGB4)
    4:2:2, packed, YUYV (YUYV)
    4:2:2, packed, YUYV (YUYV)
    4:2:2, packed, UYVY (UYVY)
    4:2:2, planar, Y-Cb-Cr (422P)
    4:2:0, planar, Y-Cb-Cr (YU12)
    4:2:0, planar, Y-Cr-Cb (YV12)
    4:1:1, planar, Y-Cb-Cr (411P)
    4:1:0, planar, Y-Cb-Cr (YUV9)
    4:1:0, planar, Y-Cr-Cb (YVU9)
Crop Capabilities
  Bounds: 838 x 504
  Default: 768 x 480
  Current: 768 x 480
Inputs: 4
  Input 0
    Name: Composite0
    Type: Camera
    Audioset: 00000001
    Standards: 0xffbfff
    Power on  (X)
    Signal detected  (X)
    Colour Signal detected 
    Horizontal Lock detected 
  Input 1
    Name: Composite1
    Type: Camera
    Audioset: 00000001
    Standards: 0xffbfff
    Power on  (X)
    Signal detected  (X)
    Colour Signal detected 
    Horizontal Lock detected 
  Input 2
    Name: Composite2
    Type: Camera
    Audioset: 00000001
    Standards: 0xffbfff
    Power on  (X)
    Signal detected  (X)
    Colour Signal detected 
    Horizontal Lock detected 
  Input 3
    Name: Composite3
    Type: Camera
    Audioset: 00000001
    Standards: 0xffbfff
    Power on  (X)
    Signal detected  (X)
    Colour Signal detected 
    Horizontal Lock detected 
zmuser@zmuser-camerastation:~$

LIKE HELP!!!

Posted: **Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:42 pm**

Somebody mentioned checking the "apache error log" with no info as to how to find it or what to check. Does that sound right, and can somebody provide more detail?

Posted: **Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:09 pm**

See your original post
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Please, can anyone provide exact camera settings? Specs incl

Please, can anyone provide exact camera settings? Specs incl