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I was instaled zoneminder in ubuntu 9.10 from synaptic repositórios (ver 1.24.1). Xawtv show a clear image from cameras, but zoneminder show /dev/video0 in red and dont show any image on stream. I'm using bttv 878 chip with 4 ports. What i do? if a card is compatible with xawtv is compatible with zoneminder too? I lost 1 week on this.

this is my zmdc.log

01/27/10 16:31:02.070006 zmdc[2042].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0]
01/27/10 16:31:02.087990 zmdc[2042].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 10/01/27 16:31:02, pid = 6185]
01/27/10 16:31:02.124735 zmdc[2042].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 6]

What are the permissions on /dev/video0 ?
ls -l /dev/video*

I've a memory that in ubuntu the apache user cannot read from this device by default

I try chmod 777 /dev/video0, restart zoneminder and nothing, same problem.

I have this every 10 minutes on my zmdc.log:

27-01-2010 22:12:57.077348 zmdc[7593].INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0]
27-01-2010 22:12:57.095996 zmdc[7593].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 10/01/27 22:12:57, pid = 19470]
27-01-2010 22:12:57.206247 zmdc[7593].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 6]


and stream continue dont working. What i do?

Try using V4L version 1 instead of 2?
Also try changing to grey temporarily to see if that works.
I found v4l2 a bit more fussy over palettes etc.