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I'm almost 100% certain that this is a PEBKAC moment, but I'm stumped.

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 with the ppa:iconner/zoneminder-feature-h265-videostorage ZoneMinder installed. I have it "working" in the sense that I can access the web GUI, I can add a monitor, and I can view the feed from the monitor. However I'm getting a number of errors. In addition, I'm still creating jpgs for events, and I'm pretty sure video is not being created for events. I'm guessing there is some setting that I did not set, but I can't find anything.

The following are the errors I'm getting:
in /usr/share/zoneminder/www/includes/database.php
in http://192.168.7.36/zm/tools/mootools/mootools-more.js

a) If its a h264-video-branch issue, that branch is still experimental and not part of 1.30
b) This may not actually be a video-branch issue. See viewtopic.php?t=24541 for similar issues

I have no idea of feature-h264 as I don't use it. Just seems that your error may be sql related instead.

I agree that I may have two different issues here. The biggest one, for me right now, is trying to figure out why I'm not getting video recording. The second issue(s) don't actually seem to be issues, in the sense that they don't seem to be causing any problems.

Looking back on my post, I probably should have been more detailed about my setup:

This is not my first ZoneMinder setup. I currently have four different ZoneMinder servers setup and working with 1.29. However, for one server, the storage space from the jpegs is horrendous. I'm going through close to 100GB/hr of storage space with all their cameras, and am desperately trying to reduce that. I was hoping I could get the pass-through h264 working, because I've seen reports here that it drastically lowers hard drive use (especially for always-on recording), but I haven't had any luck so far.

My OS of choice is CentOS, so I built a CentOS package using the github source for feature-h264, but I couldn't get the record-to-video to work there. Assuming it was something I did, I went ahead and spun up an Ubuntu 16.04 VM to see if it worked better with Ubuntu. Unfortunately, that hasn't worked either, and now I'm stuck.

Assuming you resolve that db issue.
That snapshot has issues, branch itself is working currently, but you will have to build a package. Details here http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/lat ... rom-source
Step 3 swap the branch on the end of the command from master or stable to feature-h264-videostorage.

If you want to encode a non h264 camera need mp4v2 and x264 installed before you build the package.

Jump on irc, I am around a bit mainly mornings US time, and a couple of others on the h264 branch on there.

Thank you Steve. Building it from source for Ubuntu finally got it working for me. In testing, I'm already seeing a huge decrease in the storage space for always-on recording.