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Why when i try generate video i have this error:
Video Generation Failed!

Ubuntu 6.10 whith zm 1.2.23.

Can you help me please.
Thanks.

What errors do you get in the logs?
When you run:
ffmpeg -version
what do you get?

Check your path to ffmpeg in Options > Images > ZM_PATH_FFMPEG. On a default Ubuntu install I believe it's located at /usr/bin/ffmpeg.

Mathew

I change path in /usr/bin/ffmpeg but there is again error.
This is mi zmvideo.log:
01/26/07 23:07:18.412696 zmvideo[6612].INF [/usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -r 24.51 -i %03d-capture.jpg -s 320x240 -r 25 'Event-564-r1-s1.avi' >& ffmpeg.log]
01/26/07 23:07:18.415573 zmvideo[6612].ERR [Unable to generate video, check /var/www/zm//events/15/564/ffmpeg.log for details].
/var/www/zm/events/15/564/ffmpeg.log don't exist.

ffmpeg -version:
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
libavutil version: 0d.49.0.0
libavcodec version: 0d.51.11.0
libavformat version: 0d.50.5.0
built on Sep 20 2006 00:26:15, gcc: 4.1.2 20060906 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu2)
ffmpeg SVN-rUNKNOWN
libavutil 3211264
libavcodec 3345152
libavformat 3278080

Any ideas? Thanks.

Sorry for my english.

Have you checked where you've got ffmpeg installed? Try locate ffmpeg as see where it lives...

Mathew

He has it installed as per my request above to display the version.

Do a locate for ffmpeg.log and see what turns up.
also check zmvideo.log this will give you a bit more info.
Worst case, you can pm me your ssh info and I can track it down.

With locate ffmpeg i have /usr/bin/ffmpeg.

I don't have zmvideo.log

I use different events path, with symbolink link to new path.

Sorry for my english

cordel wrote:He has it installed as per my request above to display the version.

Sure - it wasn't if ffmpeg was installed but rather where that I was wondering.

I asked because the default ZM path location is for it to be in /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg whereas on Ubuntu it's actually installed at /usr/bin/ffmpeg.

Mathew

You might need to tail all your logs (messages/syslog, zmpkg.log, zmdc.log, zmvideo.log) as I don't remember where the error would turn up (messages/syslog I think) but this will tell if there is a permissions problem or a path problem or maybe both. The problem will be logged somewhere though and with out it we're just guessing and you will continue to pull your hair out.

Sorry but i don't have zmvideo.log, zmpkg.log and zmdc.log.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

What happened too them?
You were posting some of the errors from those logs earlier.

Take a look at this post:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... ht=zmvideo

I had same problem (on UBUNTU 6.10 and ZM 1.22.3) and removing "&" from line 323 of zmvideo.pl solved the problem.

Most likely, this error raise when the location for the log file produced along with the video (ffmpeg.log) is not writable.
This expecially if you can't fint a ffmpeg.log

Check in zmvideo.pl and change ">& ffmpeg.log" to "&> /tmp/ffmpeg.log"
and see what happens

Roberto

Perfect. Is all OK!

Thanks.

occhiostanco wrote:Most likely, this error raise when the location for the log file produced along with the video (ffmpeg.log) is not writable.
This expecially if you can't fint a ffmpeg.log

Check in zmvideo.pl and change ">& ffmpeg.log" to "&> /tmp/ffmpeg.log"
and see what happens

Roberto

This suggestion also fixed my problems with video generation using ZM 1.22.3-10 on Ubuntu 7.10.

THANKS!
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