ZoneMinder Forums

So it's been so very long since I've used Linux, approximately four years. Have it at work, since I own a store, and am trying to set up ZoneMinder for my benefit and that of my father, however I seem to have a problem.

I have NC1200 cameras not purchased from GadSpot (NC1200-L10 to be precise, seemingly from China) and cannot get them to work with ZoneMinder.

In fact, I can't get anything to work with ZoneMinder at all.

I simply return a black screen when I try to view the camera on ZoneMinder, be it with my generic WebCam or the NC1200-10L. However, using vlc -f --video-on-top http://user:pass@camip:8081/cgi-bin/Getimg.cgi?motion=1 I can play full screen, 640x480 video. I can log into the camera with my windows machines, and can see the camera with the generic Video Camera software that I have for windows.

I am wondering... where do I start troubleshooting for this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Zone minder does this with mjpeg does that url give you a mjpeg feed. If it gives you a moeg4 feed it still may work but it a little bit harder to get working.

try looking at zmc and zma logs under /var/log

Also if you install zm on a dedicated zm system try this live cd.

http://www.isentrix.com/pub/zoneminder/ ... x/ZMLarch/

Also try setting your shared memory

Others with your cam
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... ght=nc1200

Yes, it's an mjpeg feed. Is that unfortunately not supported by ZoneMinder, or did I just set it up wrong? I tried testing ZoneMinder with my webcam (which I got working with xawtv) and the webcam does not work with ZoneMinder either, and I do not think that should be an mjpeg feed.

Also, upon closer inspection, I do not appear to have any ZM logs in /var/logs or /tmp that are zmc.log or zma.log. /tmp has a zmdc.log. This is leading me to believe I have installed this wrong somehow... with my apt-get. Somehow.

Running Linux Mint "Helena", ZoneMinder 1.24.1 here.

Zoneminder suports jpeg, mjpeg, and anything ffmpeg can turn into a mjpeg.

Weird try a newr package.

ftp://ftp.northern-ridge.com.au/zonemin ... tu/jaunty/

He is they guy who creats the Debian and ubunut packages should work on mint as its based on ubunut.