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Posted: **Mon Oct 30, 2017 9:35 pm**

Hi,

I've set up a fresh zoneminder 1.30.4 on debian 9.2. following exactly the HowTo: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_9_64 ... e_Easy_Way
I could found my camera through onvi detect.
The resulting url was: rtsp://admin:@192.168.1.210:554/rtsp_live0
If I access that URL through VLC, it shows me a good and fast video stream.

The same url in zoneminder with:
source type: ffmpeg
source path: rtsp://admin:@192.168.1.210:554/rtsp_live0
remote method: UDP Multicast
Just lead to a bluescreen and log entry: "Unable to open input rtsp://admin:@192.168.1.210:554/rtsp_live0 due to: Operation now in progress"

If I change remote method to: UDP or TCP lead to a blank screen an following log entry:
"Socket /dev/shm/zms-557276s.sock does not exist. This file is created by zms, and since it does not exist, either zms did not run, or zms exited early. Please check your zms logs and ensure that CGI is enabled in apache and check that the PATH_ZMS is set correctly. Make sure that ZM is actually recording. If you are trying to view a live stream and the capture process (zmc) is not running then zms will exit. Please go to http://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/lat ... window-etc for more information."

PATH_ZMS is set to: /cgi-bin/zms

Any Ideas how can I fix that error?

Posted: **Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:08 pm**

Resolution! Use vlc to check the display resolution and use that in zoneminder!

Posted: **Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:24 am**

Thanks for your reply.
VLC showed 1280 x 720 as the display resolution.
I added to Capture Width: 1280 and to Capture Height: 720 but the stream is still blue.

Error log throw out only:
Unable to open input rtsp://admin:@192.168.1.210:554/rtsp_live0 due to: Operation now in progress
Cam: 70000 - Capturing at 1000.00 fps

EDIT:
Again I let ONVIF detect the cam and now it set Remote Method: TCP
Resolution and Path is the same like above.
But still no picture..

Log Entries:

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Date/Time
Component	Server	PID	Level	Message	File	Line
2017-10-31 08:45:47.332670	zmdc		1716	ERR	'zmc -m 1' exited abnormally, exit status 255	zmdc.pl	
2017-10-31 08:45:47.310390	zmc_m1		1800	FAT	Unable to decode frame at frame 0	zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp	178
2017-10-31 08:45:45.316696	zmc_m1		1800	INF	Priming capture from rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.210:554/rtsp_live0	zm_ffmpeg_camera.cpp	104

Posted: **Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:51 am**

Oho
Now I switched TCP to UDP and it worked, I have a picture.

Very strange, because its the same settings like yesterday...anyway thanks!

Posted: **Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:30 pm**

fips wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:51 am Oho
Now I switched TCP to UDP and it worked, I have a picture.

Very strange, because its the same settings like yesterday...anyway thanks!

Great! VLC (Tools, Media Information, Codec) to check camera Display Resolution. Possible your camera does not like a TCP connection? Check its settings.

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