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I have just run into this myself: I'm afraid its not clear to me how to apply the fix. Do I edit zm_create_sql.in and retry the install, or can I pick up the change via git somehow?
Thanks,
Michael

One thing I have noticed which is sort of frustrating is that the camera doesn't have to generate JPEGs; it can also produce uncompressed YUY2 format, which would relieve ZoneMinder of the work involved in unpacked JPEGs. The trouble is that there is no defined way of moving YUY2 over the LAN to Zon...

I encountered this problem recently and after struggling with various mpeg tools I found a much better solution. Easy to use, works reliably, doesn't care how many files you give it or what size they are. You probably aren't going to like it though. Its QuickTime Pro. I bought it for my Mac but I wo...

I have been looking into the combination of one of the router/NAS devices supported by the OpenWRT firmware and the newer high-resolution webcams such as the QuickCam Pro 9000. It turns out that this can be made to work, and makes a high-resolution IP camera that does 960x720 pixels quite comfortabl...

IP cameras mostly seem to be pretty expensive gadgets, and megapixel ones particularly so, but I have noticed that a new way of assembling your own seems to be becoming possible. If you combine an NSLU2 ($80US) with one (or two?) of the new generation of UVC-compliant 2M-pixel webcams like the Logit...

Three years actually sounds a bit low for a SLA battery that isn't being used - unless you have put it somewhere hot, which they do not like. I'm thinking of getting a little UPS and I will be trying not to put it in the cupboard with my ZM server if I can... For some reason the 7AH capacity ones se...

Aha. Got it. I have colour. The solution was to add a "options bttv pll=1" into /etc/modprobe.d/options. The bttv driver needed to be told that my card has a 28.6MHz crystal and that it should use the PLL to synthesise the 35.4MHz that it needs to do PAL colour. I am guessing that this par...

No, it recognised the card itself - the dmesg I posted is from a fresh install.

Well, I have made some more progress. The key discovery was that the channel settings for brightness/contrast/hue/colour had defaulted to 0 which does indeed give you a black screen. I had set them all to 50 thinking they were a percentage, but it seems they are actually a uint16 and once I tried 32...

Yes. Its a PAL camera. The good news is that the camera and card work just fine under Windows. So the problem has got to be a software issue of some kind. I'm trawling through the v4l lists now looking for anything useful. The strange thing is that bttv seems to know all about my card, but it just d...

Well, that isn't it. What I have learned is that the BNC connectors correspond to /dev/video0 channel 0..3, 0 at the bottom and 3 at the top. I know this because I get a blue raster when the camera isn't connected to the channel I am watching, and a black raster when it is. Unfortunately thats all I...

It is indeed the #64900 version, also known as the model 188. I'm beginning to suspect that the problem may be a camera issue; the camera has 8 DIP switches on the back that do various things to the signal. I'm wondering if the fact that a TV can display what its producing doesn't necessarily mean t...

Long time lurker here, finally getting to do a ZoneMinder system. I'm using an old HP XE310, which is a 1.2GHz P3/512M/40G, with Ubuntu Feisty and a single Hauppauge ImpactVCB card. I have a Samsung colour CCD camera plugged into the card. After some difficulties (the server version of Feisty has pr...

Hah. I'll post when I, uh, have a camera. I don't have one yet because I wasn't at all sure I could make ZM run on a Mac -- and I'm still rather surprised. Its only a 350MHz B&W G3 but I have 512M in it so I'm hoping it will cope with a couple of 640x480 IP cameras. We shall see.

I have another environment where this happens: Ubuntu Dapper on PowerPC... I'm trying to build for a G3 Power Mac.