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I attempted to do a search through the forum, hoping to find settings that work for my VideoSecu camera (BNC), but not able to pull anything up to work with. Wondering if there is a doc of working settings for most cameras ?? Tried many settings using various color palettes ntsc 320x240 and 640x480, but just get green or black images (no video).

specs: VedoSecu model IR24W
Image Sensor 1/3"CCD
Resolution 480 TV Lines
NTSC
Composite

With a camera like that the camera makes no difference at all. Please post your capture card type and whether or not it's being recognized by the system.

Here is the hardware info. The card has 4 BNC inputs. Works fine with an indoor canon camera on the same input.

01:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)

description: Multimedia video controller
product: Bt878 Video Capture
vendor: Brooktree Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:01:01.0
version: 11
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vpd pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=bttv latency=64 maxlatency=40 mingnt=16
resources: irq:22 memory:f8001000-f8001fff

Try bringing up that camera by pointing VLC (or other) to /dev/video0 to see if it is working. If not check the camera power supply.

Some how my new zoneminder database became corrupt. I ran mysqlcheck against it, restarted and the video capture worked.

Thanks for the replies