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Has anyone had any luck in trying to save an Event in an MPEG4 format ? I am using Zoneminder 1.19.4 and the latest CVS from ffmpeg. My camera source is from the Dlink DCS1000 netcam . I have the option for ffmpeg set to -vcodec mpeg4 (tried msmpeg4 also) the mpeg file seems to be encoded but I have not been able to play them back with ffplay,xine,or Windows media player. Maybe it is just an issue with ffmpeg 0.4.8 or I have something wrong in how I am passing the options. My goal is to have 3 or 4 netcams and archive all the footage saved nto mpeg4 files every hour.

Changed line 156 in zmvideo.pl from my $video_file = "$video_name.mpg" to my $video_file = "$video_name.avi" . Seems ffmpeg will encode a file with a .mpg extension as mpeg4 but uses a mpeg header. File will create but can not be played back.