How to use libvlc

[Biggus]

I currently have my cameras running in ffmpeg however I get the smearing effect quite often, as you can gather I'm keen to try out the libvlc option. I've just upgraded my zoneminder to 1.27 and the libvlc option is now available however when I edit my cameras config from ffmpeg to libvlc the camera stops working, what other steps do I have to do to make this work,

The cameras are Foscam FI9828W & FI9805W

[Biggus]

I've solved it, it was basically because I didn't have the libvlc installed.

All I had to do was open up a terminal and type

"apt-get install libvlc-dev libvlc5 libvlccore-dev libvlccore5 vlc-data vlc"

then reboot the machine and now it works.

I'm going to monitor to see how I get on.

[rceccleston]

As listed above, I have installed the modules but I still receive the following alerts in the logs.

'You must have vlc libraries installed to use vlc cameras for monitor 1'

'zmc -m 1' exited abnormally, exit status 255'

'Memory map file '/dev/shm/zm.mmap.1' should have been 896 but was instead 0 '

Does LVC require a desktop interface since I am running a command line only.

[PacoLM]

Hi,

I'm running headless too and libvlc is working.

PacoLm

[Biggus]

I'm running headless too and its working fine.

[knight-of-ni]

The required package names are stated in the zonemidner README file for Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora. The names vary by distro.

The good news is that you don't have to install the full vlc application (command line users rejoice!).

If compiling from source, note that you have to have the libraries installed *before* you run cmake (or configure for autotools). Zoneminder will autodetect the prescense of these libraries and will disable support for libvlc at build time if it does not detect them.

[PoDoNoK]

Hi, my Linux distr is OpenSuse 12.1. Which libraries must be installed before using libvlc?
I have running latest version of ZoneMinder which was instaled from rpm. I tried to use as is, but my HD cam doesnt work ((( I also tried install vlc libs like its discribed in change log for CentOS, I mean vlc-devel vlc-core, anyway doesnt work((
How to solve this problem? Did anybody tried use vlc lib in OpenSuse?

Thanks!

[SteveGilvarry]

The required package names are stated in the zonemidner README file for Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora. The names vary by distro.

I think master Readme package list for Ubuntu is missing packages for some of the new functionality. I couldn't see curl or vlc libs, I would add them but i forget which ones I grabbed to solve cmake not finding them.

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