ZoneMinder Forums

df -k
will show a breakdown of your disk usage.
ZM uses the apache web server document root, which will vary depending on your linux distro.
How did you install it? If you compiled from source it will be in your configure statement. It will also be in the zm.conf file - probably in /usr/local/etc

Also check whether ZM_OPT_FAST_DELETE is set in options.

If it is then the diskspace will not be reclaimed until you restart zm, which probably isn't what you want.

Thanks Paranoid, it is indeed in there. Much easier than I expected.

I am also moving an install from suse to fedora, which means that the document root will be different. I know I could mess about with Apache on fedora to change the root to match suse, but I'd rather not. Is this just a table or two to update this config, or is this info spread all over the place? I...

Try using V4L version 1 instead of 2?
Also try changing to grey temporarily to see if that works.
I found v4l2 a bit more fussy over palettes etc.

What are the permissions on /dev/video0 ?
ls -l /dev/video*

I've a memory that in ubuntu the apache user cannot read from this device by default

I use Suse 11.1 and it didn't even set those two settings by default - they were blank before I added them. Not sure why 11.2 would.
Those do look far too high.
Set them both to 256000000
You can always put them back, you wont do permanent damage.
run sysctl -p after, or better still reboot

Sorry to bump, but this is really holding me up.

I also guess it needs someone who understands the inner workings of the c code which limits who can help, but if anyone could spare a few minutes to look at this it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Some further info. It was so long ago I first did this I forgot that you had to produce a patch for me to get it to work, which was then merged into the main release (thats why I forgot, as its been such a long time since I had to apply the patch - 2006) So maybe whatever was done for the patch need...

I have also run with debug level 5, but it generates pretty large files. If anyone wants these I can email them. I've tried to extract what error messages I can - note I started the second monitor at exactly 20:20 01/19/10 20:20:00.614189 zmc_dvideo0[7667].DB3-zm_local_camera.cpp/1879 [Assigning ima...

I have a single BT848 card. In 1.23 versions of ZM I have a setup whereby I set up two monitors both using the same camera input. One is set up for best sensitivity so I get minimal events, the other has less sensitivity to I get lots of events but only bother to look at them if something shows on t...

Thanks, I tried this and zm will compile against it at least, with no lib files in /lib.
Just need to see if I can use to export an event with it now - Been a bit busy.

Then I'll try installing the rpm ffmpeg and confirm it still works OK.

Thanks for the idea though - so far so good.

I seem to be finding various issues with the ffmpeg aspect of zm. I can get zm working by manually compiling ffmpeg, but then mythtv video conversion etc breaks because there are other requirements. Even if it works, a yum update a few months later and zm breaks again. What I'd really like to do is ...

Yeah, I tried all the ones I could find, but no luck. Looks like they all use the same rendering engine under the covers.

Has anyone managed to get streaming working with an android phone (htc hero)?
On PC I use firefix and works fine but with android it defaults to images only rather than jpeg streaming.

Thanks