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Hi.

I noticed that the latest version of ZM, 1.21.4, can not stream large recorded events, 70 sec and more, can not be streamed by ZM/FFMPEG. There is an error which appears in the logs:

Nov 23 13:08:51 test1 zms[14336]: FAT [Could not open codec]

It seems as the libavcodec cannot initialize a new codec, for this size of the events?

The used FFMPEG is CVS from ~3 weeks ago.

Have anyone seen similar behavior?

The size of the event should not make any difference to the streaming as images are only loaded as they are needed. The error you are getting is generated during initialisation. I've checked here and I can stream a 300 second event in asf format (though I did find a bug in 1.21.5 as a result of checking so thanks for that ).

It might be worth either checking in your httpd error log to see if anything else is output or trying to run it from the command line. You will need to set the QUERY_STRING environment variable to everything after the ? in the zms url and then run zms (or nph-zms) with a redirect for stdout (or you'll get garbage on your screen).

So for example Phil