Streaming Video not working

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foldedhome
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Streaming Video not working

Post by foldedhome »

I have installed zoneminder on ubuntu 12.10 and everything is working apart from streaming videos.

When i click on an event the window opens but the stream does not work.
if i change to stills then i can see all the images with this stream.

when i look in zoneminder log i see the following that it cant find the sock file as below.

Zoneminder Error Log

2013-05-22 20:24:56.538137 web_php 9399 ERR socket_sendto( /zoneminder/sock/zms-099757s.sock ) failed: No such

file or directory /usr/share/zoneminder/includes/functions.php Line 2322

When i look i list this directory at the same time of the error there is a sock file created for a short time as below and is then deleted. I discovered this by doing ls on the directory whilst trying to view a zoneminder triggered event.

Directory listing at the time of error

root@zm-media-pc:/zoneminder/sock#
srwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 0 May 22 06:27 zmdc.sock

srwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 0 May 22 20:24 zms-099757w.sock

the differance is that one has zms-******s.sock as the name whilst the other is zms-******w.sock.

can anyone please help me determine which script is generating these random sock names so that i can get them both the same and i think then that streaming will work

thanks
gedger
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Re: Streaming Video not working

Post by gedger »

Did you ever solve this as I have the same problem on Debian.

Thanks

Richard
foldedhome
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Re: Streaming Video not working

Post by foldedhome »

i still have the same problem and am not able to find out how to get the filenames to be the same for the streaming to work. :(
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teraquad
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Re: Streaming Video not working

Post by teraquad »

Hi,

I have the same problem on Fedora 19. I will post any results.

George....
Fedora 23, ZM 1.28
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DudeBud
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Re: Streaming Video not working

Post by DudeBud »

I am also having this problem with Ubuntu 13.04
Still pictures events are ok, I can view them if i click them.
However, i cannot stream and have a similar socket error. - "No Main Content Type" error in the streaming window.


Zoneminder log output:
2013-06-30 16:07:24.262692 web_php 8048 ERR socket_sendto( /tmp/zm/zms-489163s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory /usr/share/zoneminder/includes/functions.php 2323

Any ideas?

** using a D-Link DCS-930L Camera
DudeBud
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Re: Streaming Video not working

Post by DudeBud »

I've been working on this all day and am ready to pull my hair out!


lol, and i can't even post a picture of my problem as the site is telling me that "as a new user off-site URLs look spammy"
DudeBud
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Re: Streaming Video not working

Post by DudeBud »

was able to capture a pic of my headache... and help would be great.

I can see images in the events folder, but there is nothing in the actual images folder.
Using a Dlink DCS-930L camera, and am not able to stream

setting the camera to the monitor setting it goes orange, but on any other setting it goes green.
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mythedoff
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Re: Streaming Video not working

Post by mythedoff »

Could it be an alias problem? From my notes a year ago:

2012-06-27 23:33:16.107014 web_php 3769 ERR socket_sendto( /tmp/zm/zms-907324s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory includes/functions.php 2322

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$ sudo service apache2 restart
 * Restarting web server apache2                                                [Wed Jun 27 23:21:34 2012] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-zoneminder at line 1 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
 ... waiting [Wed Jun 27 23:21:35 2012] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-zoneminder at line 1 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.
looks like a conflict in http requests
I tried:

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$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
and commented out the line starting with Alias
and then:

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$ sudo service apache2 restart
This stopped the socket_sendto problem but it change the url used to access zoneminder and view monitors.

Berfore:
http://<ip>/zm/
After:
http://<ip>/

I've since done a new install and http://<ip>/zm/ works.
twice
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Re: Streaming Video not working

Post by twice »

try changing the path from /tmp/zm to /tmp restart zm

regards
foldedhome
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Re: Streaming Video not working - resolved

Post by foldedhome »

all

this is now resolved by installing java and setting correct path_zms as this forum solution.
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 62&start=0

i now get streaming video with no error :D
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