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zoneminder wrote:ZM version? Anything in the logs?

Loads in the logs…

Lastest SVN as of last week…

all local camera's set to

VFL2
PAL
YUYV

not sure if that is the best selection of presets...

Sunrise + sunset, the point at which the built in IR light switches on or off causes an event to be triggered. Not only that but there seems to be recording some seconds before the event… then the recording seems to carry on for a very long time…. Id Name Time Secs Frames Score 5032 Event-5032 2011-...

I set up our system again on a new installation, all looks about OK but there are some issues now we did not have last time… Last time I used Video F Linux 2 but this time Video for linux 1 came up with PAL + YUYV automatically, now we seem to be having some quality issues with the video… Some how w...

mastertheknife wrote:The 102 settings you used were correct.

I think the card might be defective or its connection to the system might be bad (because of the bus errors).
Try taking out the card, cleaning the PCI pins and PCI slot or try it in a different PCI slot.

mastertheknife.

OK Thanks.
I thought it must be.

OK
I get this now…

root@CCTV:/etc/modprobe.d# xawtv -hwscan
xdpyinfo: unable to open display "".
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.32-5-686)
Error: Can't open display:

DREMA wrote:Try just with this,

bttv card=77,77,77,77,77,77,77,77

I use that with my card, and is the same as yours

OK and relaod bbtv.conf ?
what should I use to reload ?

mastertheknife wrote:Same card as mine.

What options do you use in bttv.conf?

options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102 radio=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 tuner=4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2 full_luma_range=1 coring=1 autoload=0

mastertheknife wrote:Same card as mine.

What options do you use in bttv.conf?

Exactly as stated in the docs….

mastertheknife wrote:Do you have pictures of the card?

mastertheknife

It's a camsecure clone bt878 8 chip 8 port

looks just like this…
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/File:Karta.jpg

mastertheknife wrote:Hi,

Please post complete output of: dmesg | grep bttv

mastertheknife

Hi,
Are there any clues here ?

Also… No video devices showing although the driver appears to have loaded… root@CCTV:/dev# ls agpgart cpu_dma_latency fuse loop0 mcelog ptmx sda1 sr0 tty12 tty20 tty29 tty37 tty45 tty53 tty61 ttyS3 vcs6 vcsa7 block disk fw0 loop1 mem pts sda2 stderr tty13 tty21 tty3 tty38 tty46 tty54 tty62 urandom v...

Hi, Please post complete output of: dmesg | grep bttv mastertheknife Thanks… root@CCTV:/tmp# dmesg | grep bttv [ 4.398969] bttv: driver version 0.9.18 loaded [ 4.398972] bttv: using 32 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture [ 4.399014] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). [ 4.399033] bttv 0000:05:0...

Does anyone have anything on this ? Please… further logs I think this has the answer…. 05/26/11 13:19:17.081934 zmc_dvideo7[10160].INF-zm_debug.c/296 [New Debug Level = 9, New Debug Log = /tmp/zm_debug.log.10160] 05/26/11 13:19:17.082202 zmc_dvideo7[10160].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/1755 [Got 1 monitors] 05...

oh and with extra debug on I got this… 05/26/11 11:00:50.082974 zmc_dvideo7[9611].INF-zm_debug.c/296 [New Debug Level = 5, New Debug Log = /tmp/zm_debug.log.09611] 05/26/11 11:00:50.083142 zmc_dvideo7[9611].DB1-zm_monitor.cpp/1755 [Got 1 monitors] 05/26/11 11:00:50.083185 zmc_dvideo7[9611].DB2-zm_lo...

Oh and this… root@CCTV:~# ps axf | grep zmc 9245 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ grep zmc root@CCTV:~# ps axf | grep zmc 9257 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ grep zmc root@CCTV:~# ps axf | grep zmc 9259 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ grep zmc The PID keeps changing so maybe the deamon is crashing …?