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I'm new to zoneminder and i'm following the wiki. Can someone please tell me the exact steps to perform the following actions specified in the wiki. I have cambozola downloaded and i see a file named Images in Zoneminder but how do i enable in options? Also, how do i set the path to ffmpeg?
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Download cambozola.jar and put it in /usr/share/zoneminder Enable in options->Images.

Set path to ffmpeg in options -> Images /usr/bin/ffmpeg

thanks
russ

russ, could you perhaps give more details as to which Wiki you followed and what distro you're running?

Also: if you use mpeg streaming instead of jpeg streaming, then you don't need cambozola.
I would really urge you to go for the mpeg path.

Those instructions that you mentioned are to be found on the ZoneMinder webpage, which is normally located at http://localhost/zm/
Then you can find Options on the top right hand side of the page.

Thank you for replying to my need for help.
I have an old Dell computer with 50 gb drive and 500mb of memory.
I loaded Ubuntu 10.04 server version and Apache2 2.2.14-5. both of these work great.
I had a lot of trouble dealing with the command line inputs so i loaded the desktop and
used gedit to look at files and make changes.
I have a bluecherry PV143 capture card , 2-cheap cameras , and an usb camera.

I then decided to load Zoneminder 1.24.2-2 build 3 using the Synaptic Package Manager to finally end up
with a home security system. Zoneminder has been giving me a lot of problems. I reloaded all the software
a number of times with varying results. I tried Viktor Petersson's installation guide and found problems with it.
The last time i loaded zoneminder , i got an error when i tried to access over the web with firefox.
It said ZM is not on this server. I then went to the wiki and followed the following- from


http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Documentation




[edit]Installation from a .deb
ZoneMinder is now in the Debian repositories. There are downloadable .deb files for Ubuntu for
Edgy and Feisty. At this point it is in the repository for Gutsy. After you install, you will need to do
some additional work, which is documented in the readme file included in the package. These steps have worked
for several people as of the end of Summer 07.

Link Apache

sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf
Restart Apache

sudo apache2ctl restart
suid zmfix

sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/zmfix
Run zmfix

zmfix -a
Fix export problem

sudo chown www-data.www-data /usr/share/zoneminder/temp
edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add the following lines (for 128meg shared mem)

kernel.shmall = 134217728
kernel.shmmax = 134217728


Download cambozola.jar and put it in /usr/share/zoneminder Enable in options->Images.

Set path to ffmpeg in options -> Images /usr/bin/ffmpeg

test with xawtv (-nodga may be needed)

I got all the cameras to work but the frame rate is super slow.


I would appreciate any help you can give me in ending up with a good package.

I want to be able to access the cameras over the web.

thanks
russ

I'd advise you to install ZM using Synaptics, as shown in the distribution specific Ubuntu guides.
You should also know that the kernel.shmall = kernel.shmmax / 4096 !