PATH_FFMPEG option requires path AND filename
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 8:12 pm
Running Zoneminder 1.25.0 and Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (shortly to be upgraded to the latest & greatest). Zoneminder was installed from the Ubuntu repository.
Hopefully the following will help somebody from making the same mistake I did and wasting an hour looking for a permissions problem.
Having enabled the ffmpeg encoder in options and entered the 'path' to the ffmpeg file, what I thought should be /usr/bin as determined from 'which ffmpeg', the conversion to video failed with the error "permission denied" reported in the ffmpeg.log file. Having googled and searched this forum I was none the wiser. So I looked at the code in zm_video.pl and realised that in the options dialog it's not just the path but the path AND filename that is required. ie /usr/bin/ffmpeg not just /usr/bin
To give a bit of clarity to this it would be better if the Description text in options was changed from "Path to (optional) ffmpeg mpeg encoder (?)" to Path & filename to (optional) ffmpeg mpeg encoder i.e /usr/bin/ffmpeg (?)
Do you think this is something I should report as a bug/improvement or has it been changed in later versions ?
Hopefully the following will help somebody from making the same mistake I did and wasting an hour looking for a permissions problem.
Having enabled the ffmpeg encoder in options and entered the 'path' to the ffmpeg file, what I thought should be /usr/bin as determined from 'which ffmpeg', the conversion to video failed with the error "permission denied" reported in the ffmpeg.log file. Having googled and searched this forum I was none the wiser. So I looked at the code in zm_video.pl and realised that in the options dialog it's not just the path but the path AND filename that is required. ie /usr/bin/ffmpeg not just /usr/bin
To give a bit of clarity to this it would be better if the Description text in options was changed from "Path to (optional) ffmpeg mpeg encoder (?)" to Path & filename to (optional) ffmpeg mpeg encoder i.e /usr/bin/ffmpeg (?)
Do you think this is something I should report as a bug/improvement or has it been changed in later versions ?