Okay, so I gave up on trying to compile zoneminder on Ubuntu and went to Mandriva and installed via RPM. I now have a working copy of zoneminder as far as I can tell, but I wanted to test the software out with my existing hardware prior to buying a dedicated multi-camera board.
I have my camera hooked up to a PVR-250 (which works, I can run mplayer /dev/video1 and I see the camera). However, the camera comes up red in zoneminder and if I click on it anyway it gives me a broken link image instead of a camera image. My second capture card is an HD3000, and the analog tuner seems to work okay (but the HD3000 is being used for HD capture, so I don't want to tie it up playing with zoneminder).
Is there a trick to getting ZM to work with a hardware capture board that I've missed? I apologize if this has been asked before, but I only found one other thread on this and it seemed to focus on trouble shooting the hardware.
One note: the PVR-250 does not work with xawtv, but it does work with mplayer or if I simply cp /dev/video1 tst.mpg.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
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I'm using zone minder with a PVR-350 which would have the same MPEG problem, however. I've got multiple cammers each on different channels coming in through the TV turner.
My clumsy solution was to use mplayer -vo jpeg on /dev/video32 (raw output) to generate jpeg images.
I'd like to use something that will dump the JPEG to a fifo and just keep replacing the fifo contents BUT mplayer insists on numberg the jpegs, so I have it running in a loop through each camera, capturing two frames from each camera.
ZM then just looks for the still images.
Doing it this was requires a lot of extra overhead to start mplayer once for each camera, but it works. I get about 2fps total across all cameras
Suggestions on anything else that can capture stills from raw video in a better manner would be great. Either that or pipe the raw video output to someting that ZM can understand...??
My clumsy solution was to use mplayer -vo jpeg on /dev/video32 (raw output) to generate jpeg images.
I'd like to use something that will dump the JPEG to a fifo and just keep replacing the fifo contents BUT mplayer insists on numberg the jpegs, so I have it running in a loop through each camera, capturing two frames from each camera.
ZM then just looks for the still images.
Doing it this was requires a lot of extra overhead to start mplayer once for each camera, but it works. I get about 2fps total across all cameras
Suggestions on anything else that can capture stills from raw video in a better manner would be great. Either that or pipe the raw video output to someting that ZM can understand...??