http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15577
but is a different problem so I thought a new post would be more relevant.
My set up, for those that have not seen my other post, is as follows:
Athlon X2 4200 cpu
2Gb RAM
Generic BT878 card (http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 9955c7f9dd
2 x PAL cameras (bought from Maplin in the UK so shoud be reasonable quality)
Ubuntu 9.10 server edition (i386)
I previously ran my system on an older Athlon XP 2400 CPU and board and with 1 GB RAM. The capture card and cameras were the same and I used Ubuntu 8.04 server edition. With that set up I was able to use V4L and set the input as PAL, RGB24 and 640x480 with no problems. Full colour and everything just worked.
After upgrading I had an issue with the image 'rolling' (see previous post), but solved that by using V4L2 and selecting PAL Nc (which from a quick look at Wikipedia appears to be a South American variant of PAL.....), but no matter what capture pallet I select, only Grey will work. A number of the others work but in grey and one even gives a yellow picture so obvioulsy the colour is there somewhere. A few of the settings have the slightest 'halo' of colour around objects.
Looking at my syslog the only issues of note are:
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ERR [Got unexpected memory map file size 36865192, expected 12289192] and
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zmc_dvideo0[21065]: FAT [Failed to set video format: Invalid argument]
zmdc[21020]: ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
I am restarting ZM after each change and I have compiled ZM from source with the memory map option enabled.
If you would like any more logs / info please ask.
I can live with Grey as at the end of the day it is only a home CCTV system but it would be so much nicer to get the colour back....
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