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Hello,

I have ZM v1.25.0 installed on an Ubuntu Server v12 distro.

I just set up the PICO2000 4 cameras capture card and 4 IP WEBCAMS which are working perfectly.

When I enable just one camera of the PICO2000 capture device /dev/video0 it displays correctly, even at 640x480 resolution.

But when I enable the second one, the image becomes unstable, starting to jump and shake... it gives me the impression that something goes out of sync... I wonder if any of you have had a similar issue with the PICO2000 4 ports capture card and ZoneMinder...

If you know a solution to this, I'll appreciate you share it. I would like to be able to have the 4 PICO2000 cameras along with the 4 IP WEBCAMS running on the system.

Otherwise I'll just have to dump the PICO2000 card with it's 4 cameras! Or setup a windows pc to run the PICO2000 software to handle those four cameras and have the Ubuntu ZoneMinder server handling the IP Cameras... which I'll probably end up doing if I don't find a solution to this.

Hopefully you have had this issue before and know what to do.

Thanks!

Change options::config::CAPTURES_PER_FRAME to a value of 2. Also, if I remember correctly, that is a single chip card so all four monitors must be set up exactly the same.

I found that the pico card is more picky the more cameras you have on it. You have one going good so it is a matter of getting the settings correct. I just kept fiddling with the settings until it settled down. We are running a combination of IP and pico/analog cameras. IP cams are much easier to get going in my experience and if I had known this I would have never even tried the pico route.