Thanks to some input on another forum subject I was able to get ZM libvlc working on Ubuntu 14.04 server. My tested procedure follows. I'm not sure if all the "extra" VLC installs are necessary but it works! I am monitoring an H.264 camera 30 miles away ported through a firewall with the libvlc option. Since the current version of ZM from the PPA is not "final" this is a better place for this procedure than the WIKI.
Install Ubuntu Server
Install Basic Server (if you used the mini.iso), OpenSSH Server, and LAMP Server (LAMP installs Apache2, PHP, and MySQL server)
Log in then become root:
sudo su
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
Optional: Set static IP address
nano /etc/network/interfaces
Make changes similar to this:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.10
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1
Note: for Ubuntu 14.04 the resolv.conf is dynamically assigned. The "dns-servers" entry in the interfaces file will set the DNS Multiple DNS server entries can be used.
Reboot server
Add Repository
apt-get install python-software-properties
add-apt-repository ppa:iconnor/zoneminder-master
apt-get update
Install Zoneminder
apt-get install zoneminder
Note: a couple of package configurations will open up. These are to configure Nullmailer. You can just OK them and come back to configure them later.
Install "extra" VLC components (vlc may be optional?)
apt-get install libvlc-dev libvlccore-dev vlc
Add delay to allow MySQL to start before Zoneminder
nano /etc/init.d/zoneminder
Add sleep 15 as shown:
start() {
sleep 15
echo -n "Starting $prog: "
Ctrl+o Enter to save
CTRL+x to exit
Create a directory in apache2
mkdir /etc/apache2/conf.d
Create two symbolic links
ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf
ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/zoneminder.conf
CGI is not enabled in Ubuntu 14.04 by default. Enable it this way:
a2enmod cgi
Create a new user
adduser www-data video
Restart Apache
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
or
service apache2 restart
Install Cambozola (needed if you use Internet Explorer)
cd /usr/src && wget http://www.andywilcock.com/code/cambozo ... est.tar.gz
tar -xzvf cambozola-latest.tar.gz
replace 935 with cambozola version downloaded
cp cambozola-0.935/dist/cambozola.jar /usr/share/zoneminder
You should now be able to access the web server using https://servername
NTP Daily Sync
nano /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate
Copy the following into nano
!/bin/sh ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com
Ctrl+o Enter to save
CTRL+x to exit
chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate
Open Zoneminder in web browser
http://serverip/zm
Click Options
Uncheck: Check with zoneminder.com for updated versions (?) click Save
Click Images tab
check Is the (optional) cambozola java streaming client installed (?) Click Save
Ubuntu 14.04 getting libvlc to work!!!
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 getting libvlc to work!!!
What version of ZM are you using 1.27 ?
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 getting libvlc to work!!!
This setup will get you the latest 1.27 from the master repository. As of this, the version is: 1.27.99+1-trusty-SNAPSHOT2014080402. When a new version is released on the PPA you can do an update/upgrade to get it.
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