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solsrch wrote:I had to make sure the frame rate in ZM wasn't set slower than the actual frame rate being sent by the camera.

I have seen the same problem when using IP cameras, but never with framegrabber cards, no matter if it was a slow or fast PC.

ZoneMinder might indeed be overkill for your needs.

I started out with webcamd which does exactly what you need, and not what I wanted, so I moved on to ZoneMinder.

Be careful with webcamd, my experience was that it had overwritten my standard index.html file without asking!

If you would only use IP cams it would indeed run on any Linux distribution

Well one option is just to use your syslog daemon to filter them out, for syslog-ng an example would be: filter f_zm { match("^zm.*"); }; destination zm { file("/var/log/zm.log"); }; log { source(src); filter(f_zm); destination(zm); }; I added that to my /etc/syslog file, and di...

Good one, would like to do the same.

In your browser go to the URL: Then change the following to higher numbers:

Will show the last 10 entries and update the screen in real-time
Will show the entire log

I thought that the camera needed to be accessed via the local intranet. Using authentication in ZoneMinder enables you to grant certain rights to certain users for certain cameras. You would however need to login each time. If you would like to share one or more cameras over an intranet or the inter...

http://<yourserver>/phpmyadmin ZM database -> Users table -> Click on SQL at the top of the page. Insert: INSERT INTO `Users` (`Id`, `Username`, `Password`, `Language`, `Enabled`, `Stream`, `Events`, `Control`, `Monitors`, `Devices`, `System`, `MaxBandwidth`, `MonitorIds`) VALUES (1, 0x61646d696e, '...

I had the same, I was curious what would happen if you delete the admin user.... You get no extra warning, it will delete it and that's it.

I used phpmyadmin to restore the admin user, ZoneMinder itself was unusable.

Easy. Turn on authentication in the config screen. Restart ZoneMinder, and go back to the config screen, there will be a Users tab on the right. With this anything is possible.

Works great!

Good idea!

Should be possible, I don't have any experience with USB camera's myself though. A problem you won't have, which I do, is interlacing. Interlacing problems occure with analog camera's. To compensate you can set your camera's to half of the full resolution. I use PAL so I have set this to 384 x 288, ...

Are your running ZoneMinder on OSX?

I have heard that this sort of problem can also be caused by shared memory issues.

Likely to be two wire for power, and two wires for video. The video is likely to be PAL or NTSC.

Putting power to the wrong wires will blow up the cameras for sure. Can you open a camera to see where to wires go to?