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Hello

I installed Zoneminder about 4 weeks ago and it was working fine using 8 analogue cameras. I locked it in its cupboard and left it whilst BT installed ADSL, fixed their ADSL and then fixed it again. Finally today the ADSL is actually working so I have accessed the box remotely to check it.

I have found that even though I am able to see stills, I cannot see any live view at all or recorded streams. No errors are present in the logs and all cameras show as green.

I have had the black screen issue in the past but this is different. Perhaps something to do with the nph-zms. I have checked the path to this and it seems ok.

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

J

u using firefox 3.6.3 ?

Hello

Both Firefox 3.6.3 and also Internet Explorer 8 are having the issue. I have not tried other browsers.

Jason

try a lower version of firefox... at least thats what my problem was...same like u no live stream, no events, but stills works ok...

Hello

All working now, a few issues...

I copied my configuration from another working box, but turns out I had to add these extra lines to my apache vhosts setup to get it working on the second box:

<Directory>
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

It then worked for about 4 hours and then was not working again when accessing it from another site. I tried restarting Zoneminder, apache, mysql etc.

In the end I rebooted the machine and its been up and running since.

J

If I could make a suggestion, I did a lot of research on delivering JPG/MJPG streams and found that in many cases delivering JPGS with keep-alive is much better than trying to deliver Multipart JPGS, this is very relevant in mobile and situations where the consumer is lower bandwidth than the producer.

I don't know what this does for the frame rate playback, but I think it can be modulated with a little thought.

The upside to delivering JPGS with JavaScript is that you can deliver and close to the maximum rate of the player without incurring latency like you do with MJPG and it is cross platform.

I did an an example which I've posted here a while ago with my mock up iPhone Viewer.

This method might make a bunch of problems go away.