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Hello all,

I very recently purchased a CZ8784 from camsecure.co.uk. This is a 4 channel 4 chip BT878 capture card. I can get it to work using xawtv, and can even capture with it, but I cannot get a new monitor assigned to one of the channels to display in zoneminder. I'm not sure what to do next and I've been having a bit of trouble trying to search for a solution. If someone knows a solution, or can point me to the right solution, please help.

I'll also be emailing this problem to camsecure's support email... if I get
a response from them which fixes my problem, I'll post the solution here.

Best Regards,

Allan Macdonald

p.s. See below for log excerpts, etc. Please feel free to reply if more information is needed.

My OS is Ubuntu 9.10. Zoneminder is 1.24.1.

Contents of /tmp/zmdc.log:

03/28/10 00:19:55.100017 zmdc[1809].INF [Starting pending process, zmc
-d /dev/video0]

03/28/10 00:19:55.110120 zmdc[1809].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting
at 10/03/28 00:19:55, pid = 2575]

03/28/10 00:19:55.187261 zmdc[1809].ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited
abnormally, exit status 6]

Contents of /var/log/messages:

Mar 28 00:19:55 allanmacdonald-desktop zmdc[1809]: INF [Starting
pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0]

Mar 28 00:19:55 allanmacdonald-desktop zmdc[2575]: INF ['zmc -d
/dev/video0' started at 10/03/28 00:19:55]

Mar 28 00:19:55 allanmacdonald-desktop zmdc[1809]: INF ['zmc -d
/dev/video0' starting at 10/03/28 00:19:55, pid = 2575]

Mar 28 00:19:55 allanmacdonald-desktop zmc_dvideo0[2575]: INF [Debug
Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]

Mar 28 00:19:55 allanmacdonald-desktop zmc_dvideo0[2575]: INF [Starting Capture]

Mar 28 00:19:55 allanmacdonald-desktop zmc_dvideo0[2575]: INF [Got
signal 6 (Aborted), exiting and forcing backtrace]

Results of zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v:
Video Capabilities
Name: BT878 video (Kodicom 4400R (sla
Type: 45
Can capture
Does teletext
Overlay onto frame buffer
Can clip
Video Channels: 16
Audio Channels: 0
Maximum Width: 768
Maximum Height: 480
Minimum Width: 48
Minimum Height: 32
Window Attributes
X Offset: 0
Y Offset: 0
Width: 320
Height: 240
Picture Attributes
Palette: 5 - 32bit RGB
Colour Depth: 32
Brightness: 32768
Hue: 32768
Colour :32768
Contrast: 32768
Whiteness: 0
Channel 0 Attributes
Name: Composite0
Channel: 0
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 1 Attributes
Name: Composite1
Channel: 1
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 2 Attributes
Name: Composite2
Channel: 2
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 3 Attributes
Name: Composite3
Channel: 3
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 4 Attributes
Name: Composite4
Channel: 4
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 5 Attributes
Name: Composite5
Channel: 5
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 6 Attributes
Name: Composite6
Channel: 6
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 7 Attributes
Name: Composite7
Channel: 7
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 8 Attributes
Name: Composite8
Channel: 8
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 9 Attributes
Name: Composite9
Channel: 9
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 10 Attributes
Name: Composite10
Channel: 10
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 11 Attributes
Name: Composite11
Channel: 11
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 12 Attributes
Name: Composite12
Channel: 12
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 13 Attributes
Name: Composite13
Channel: 13
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 14 Attributes
Name: Composite14
Channel: 14
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC
Channel 15 Attributes
Name: Composite15
Channel: 15
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 1 - NTSC

Here is one of the debug logs:

03/28/10 01:16:21.096212 zmc_dvideo0[3616].INF-zm_debug.c/292 [New Debug Level = 5, New Debug Log = /tmp/zm_debug.log.03616]
03/28/10 01:16:21.097099 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/1708 [Got 1 monitors]
03/28/10 01:16:21.097299 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB2-zm_local_camera.cpp/287 [V4L2 support enabled, using V4L2 api]
03/28/10 01:16:21.098699 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/338 [monitor purpose=1]
03/28/10 01:16:21.098795 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/345 [mem.size=9217192]
03/28/10 01:16:21.123336 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB1-zm_zone.cpp/50 [Initialised zone 0/All - 1 - 320x240 - Rgb:ff0000, CM:3, MnAT:15, MxAT:0, MnAP:50, MxAP:75000, FB:3x3, MnFP:50, MxFP:50000, MnBS:10, MxBS:0, MnB:0, MxB:0, OF: 0]
03/28/10 01:16:21.128090 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/458 [Monitor Camera1 has function 2]
03/28/10 01:16:21.128157 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/459 [Monitor Camera1 LBF = '%N - %y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S', LBX = 0, LBY = 0]
03/28/10 01:16:21.128192 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/460 [Monitor Camera1 IBC = 40, WUC = 25, pEC = 10, PEC = 10, EAF = 1, FRI = 1000, RBP = 7, FM = 0]
03/28/10 01:16:21.128653 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB1-zm_zone.cpp/889 [Got 1 zones for monitor Camera1]
03/28/10 01:16:21.128722 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB5-zm_zone.cpp/918 [Parsing polygon 0,0 319,0 319,239 0,239]
03/28/10 01:16:21.128759 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB3-zm_zone.cpp/758 [Parsing polygon string '0,0 319,0 319,239 0,239']
03/28/10 01:16:21.128791 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB3-zm_zone.cpp/796 [Got coordinate 0,0 from polygon string]
03/28/10 01:16:21.128823 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB3-zm_zone.cpp/796 [Got coordinate 319,0 from polygon string]
03/28/10 01:16:21.128851 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB3-zm_zone.cpp/796 [Got coordinate 319,239 from polygon string]
03/28/10 01:16:21.128880 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB3-zm_zone.cpp/796 [Got coordinate 0,239 from polygon string]
03/28/10 01:16:21.128923 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB3-zm_zone.cpp/816 [Successfully parsed polygon string]
03/28/10 01:16:21.128969 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB1-zm_zone.cpp/50 [Initialised zone 2/All - 1 - 320x240 - Rgb:ff0000, CM:3, MnAT:25, MxAT:0, MnAP:2304, MxAP:57600, FB:3x3, MnFP:2304, MxFP:57600, MnBS:1536, MxBS:0, MnB:1, MxB:0, OF: 0]
03/28/10 01:16:21.133085 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/1810 [Loaded monitor 2(Camera1), 1 zones]
03/28/10 01:16:21.133152 zmc_dvideo0[3616].INF-zmc.cpp/186 [Starting Capture]
03/28/10 01:16:21.135103 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB3-zm_local_camera.cpp/350 [Opening video device /dev/video0]
03/28/10 01:16:21.135265 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB2-zm_local_camera.cpp/356 [V4L2 support enabled, using V4L2 api]
03/28/10 01:16:21.135313 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB3-zm_local_camera.cpp/361 [Checking video device capabilities]
03/28/10 01:16:21.135382 zmc_dvideo0[3616].DB3-zm_local_camera.cpp/371 [Setting up video format]
03/28/10 01:16:21.135485 zmc_dvideo0[3616].FAT-zm_local_camera.cpp/387 [Failed to set video format: Invalid argument]
03/28/10 01:16:21.135817 zmc_dvideo0[3616].INF-zm_signal.cpp/64 [Got signal 6 (Aborted), exiting and forcing backtrace]

03/28/10 01:16:21.135485 zmc_dvideo0[3616].FAT-zm_local_camera.cpp/387 [Failed to set video format: Invalid argument]

change you pallet its wrong

Thanks kingofkya!

I knew I was doing something wrong! Do you mean "capture palette"? So, what capture palette setting should I be using? This stuff is all very new to me.

Cheers,
Allan