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"How to debug ZM" is definitely a topic that would've saved me many hours...

I've now made a small shell script to install and setup ZoneMinder on Ubuntu 10.10 and it might even work on 10.04: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16628

You can always just run 'ffmpeg -i <url>' and it should give you the camera information.
I often use that to get the camera settings before adding the monitor to ZM. The only thing that might not be accurate is the framerate.

From all the Ubuntu distributions that I've tried the past 2 months, Maverick Meerkat (10.10) seems to have the best results for installing ZM from the package manager. This post has 2 ZoneMinder installation types: Part A - from Ubuntu repository Part B - from source Part A - installing ZoneMinder ...

Thank you so much tim! I am really grateful for this. I really love your "zero customization" way! For a Montage view of all the cameras this is definitely the easiest way to go, and to simplify things more, I'm going to keep the slave servers as is (local db + storage for recording). I wi...

OK, I have now tried running 2 ZM machines from a shared database (simply changing the ZM_DB_HOST) and this did not work as I'd anticipated. Now both machines are trying to capture from the same cameras and the web interface always tries to use the zms-nph running from the same machine as the websit...

Impressive work warmcat. Unfortunately I don't have an x264 capable camera connected to my servers atm so I can't test the patch, but the modifications in the patch did impress me. I've tried to get x264 streaming going with ZM last night, but I was unsuccessful to get anything more than the first f...

This user contribution topic might also be worth looking at: Matroska (.mkv) Event Storage + Axis RTSP/H264 fixes

The easiest would be to write a script that use rsync to sync the folder contents of the stored videos where motion was detected with the remote server's folder.

Just take note that the default Ubuntu installation wiki's does not show you how to compile x264 support with FFmpeg! I'd reckon that this is your problem here: that your FFmpeg doesn't have libx264 support. This thread might be helpful: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095 I've also post...

Usually you add the username and password right before the hostname. I'd reckon that you can just change the hostname to <username>:<password>@<hostname>, because that's how you usually authenticate yourself in an URL. eg. http://admin:password@camera-ip/cgi-bin/fullsize.jpg?camera=1

Can you stream to VLC using ffmpeg like follow: ffmpeg -i rtsp://root:password@192.168.0.199:554/axis-media/media.amp -f asf -r 25 -b 150000 - | vlc - Where asf is the output format, 25 is the framerate and 150000 is the bitrate. If that works, then ZoneMinder capturing is also supposed to work. Did...

ZM has 4 different bandwidth profiles that you can choose from. 3 modes (high/medium/low) are available with the classic skin and the last mode is available with the mobile (phone) skin. You can change the scale, maximum framerate & bitrate to suit your needs. These values are the values that af...

That's great news. I would love to see your findings/settings -> check your PM Inbox.

Howie69: see if you can view the video feed with VLC or mplayer using the same URL that you're using for ZM.

If it works in ZM, then you might want to try and use the Source Type = Ffmpeg, and then specify the URL under the Source Path option.

Apache's config files are located in /etc/apache2/
You might want to look in the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ folder though.