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I have a virtual machine image of Ubuntu 14.04 with the latest ZoneMinder built from source that includes a good version of ffmpeg, x264, libvlc, libjpeg-turbo, etc. Its a pretty minimal Ubuntu installation but its ready to run, just add your cameras. The source is included in /usr/local/src. If thi...

This is probably related to how you are capturing the camera stream. What version of ZM are you using? The current source from the git repo or something else? What are your camera settings?

Yea, that would do it. You shouldn't get good results using 'progressive' as the de-interlacing settings...at least I never have. You have V4L2 installed and not V4L, correct? If so try 'four field motion adaptive - medium'. Also, I have found that with analog capture cards its often best to reboot ...

Show me your configuration line for building ZM. Did you use cmake or ./configure? How did you install libjpeg-turbo?

It looks pretty typical. You simply wont get good performance from 8 cams per capture chip. You might get better results if you set each cam to a low fps like 2 to see if that works OK. I have a similar card that has one chip per chan and it can run each cam at 20+ fps with no problem but I have als...

No, its not a good way to fix errors but its not unusual to disable it in a production system especially if the only 'errors' you are getting are just warnings. If you are still on 1.27 you should consider moving to 1.27.1 as the current code is excellent.

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Did you restart Apache after the changes? Which php.ini file did you modify? You might have several on the system, one for Apache and one for CLI.

How many cams are you running on it? 8 cams per chip is pretty taxing, I have always preferred one or two cams per chip. I would expect 8 cams per chip to run at about 2-3 fps. What is your output of grep bttv /var/log/kern.log ? Can you also do a sudo lshw >> hw.txt and paste the info from the crea...

If you are still using ffmpeg you might want to add these options under the 'source tab' for the monitor: allowed_media_types=video, bitrate=4096 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6511963/source1.png Some of my cams make ffmpeg think they do audio even though they dont, telling it to not look for ...

ZM is a bit picky on the versions of libs you have installed prior to building. I have found that the current vlc libs from the videolan nightly repo work well along with this particular version of ffmpeg that I build after building x264: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6511963/ffmpeg-56254-gb7b...

Sure, you can embed a live feed of one (or more) of your zoneminder monitors in a webpage. If your webserver is local to the ZM box and the ZM box is well isolated you can do it without using authentication but if you do require authentication you will need to change the settings in ZM to use 'none'...

I would actually encourage using the current git code, it has many bug fixes and enhancements over the initial 1.27 release especially when built with ffmpeg and libvlc. The issue of the errors in the web based log viewer can be overcome by disabling logging to the database in options and just using...

Ahh. I wasn't sure. You said "..connected to a zoneminder 1.27 VM" so I thought it might be running in a virtual machine.