*solved* can't use zmu and good resolution

[amael]

Hi!

I use Zoneminder on a ubuntu 7.04 for a few day, and I'm a beginner with both linux and zoneminder. My ZM is working well with my hercules Classic webcam, but with a very poor resolution of 160*120.

I think it could be possible to have a resolution of 640*480, but when I try to set this resolution, the name of the camera become red in the console, and I can't get images. /var/log/messages indicates just :
..
INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' started at ...]
INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]

When I try to use ~$zmu -q /dev/video0 -q -v
I receive:
Abandon (core dumped)

What does it mean ? I'm sorry, but I haven't found help on previous topics of this forum, and no settings for my cam.

Thank you very much!

[zoneminder]

You may have shared memory issues. Try fully restarting ZM after you make the change and read the FAQ in the Wiki.

[amael]

thanks a lot!

I change the resolution to 384*288 and it's working.

Now, I have just a little problem with streaming when I want to replay an event. I can see stills picture but Stream doesn't work. I have just a blank frame with the number of the event, even if the progress bar is working well.

I'll try to find a solution.

Thanks a lot for this software!

[amael]

Hi!

I try a lot of things, but I have always the same problem: I can see streaming in live, but not in replay! I downloaded a lot of codec and plug-in. My ffmpeg works well. I use Firefox (I also try with Konqueror), and I thougt it was able to read stream without other plug-in, so I don't understand.

Any idea ?

Thank you !

[cordel]

Check your apache error log and see if there is a permision problem.

[amael]

Here is my /var/log/apache2/error.log:

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[Sun Apr 29 11:30:23 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Apr 29 11:57:40 2007] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sun Apr 29 16:16:50 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Apr 29 17:56:16 2007] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Apr 30 08:37:52 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Apr 30 09:05:18 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: zms, referer: http://localhost/zm/index.php?view=watchfeed&mode=&mid=7&scale=100&control=
[Mon Apr 30 09:05:18 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/favicon.ico
[Mon Apr 30 09:05:18 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/favicon.ico
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
  configuration:  --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr 
  libavutil version: 0d.49.0.0
  libavcodec version: 0d.51.11.0
  libavformat version: 0d.50.5.0
  built on Jan 28 2007 22:48:38, gcc: 4.1.2 20070106 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-21ubuntu7)
Input #0, image2, from '%03d-capture.jpg':
  Duration: 00:00:04.3, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
  Stream #0.0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p, 384x288, 14.52 fps(r)
Output #0, mpeg, to 'Event-302-r1-s1.mpg':
  Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg1video, yuv420p, 384x288, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 25.00 fps(c)
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame=   62 q=7.7 size=     172kB time=2.4 bitrate= 577.5kbits/s    
frame=  107 q=8.2 Lsize=     248kB time=4.2 bitrate= 479.2kbits/s    
video:70kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 253.693593%
[Mon Apr 30 09:15:13 2007] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Apr 30 09:18:25 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

I don't see anything wrong, I restart my computer at 9:18 and try to replay an event in ZM...

Thank you !

[amael]

and here is my /var/log/apache2/access.log:

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127.0.0.1 - - [30/Apr/2007:09:32:45 +0200] "GET /zm/index.php?view=event&eid=306&trms=1&attr1=MonitorId&op1==&val1=7&sort_field=DateTime&sort_asc=0&page=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 20325 "http://localhost/zm/index.php?view=watchevents&max_events=10&mid=7" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-feisty)"
127.0.0.1 - - [30/Apr/2007:09:32:45 +0200] "GET /zm/zm_html_styles.css HTTP/1.1" 200 4870 "http://localhost/zm/index.php?view=event&eid=306&trms=1&attr1=MonitorId&op1==&val1=7&sort_field=DateTime&sort_asc=0&page=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-feisty)"

Thank you very much!

[amael]

I re-installed my zm using

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./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/zm --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin --with-webuser=www-data --with-webgroup=www-data --with-ffmpeg=/usr/bin 

instead of

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./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/zm --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin --with-webuser=www-data --with-webgroup=www-data 

And now, replays are working well. But when I try to create a video, I receive: Video Generation Failed!

My zmvideo.log says:

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04/30/07 15:27:46.987433 zmvideo[6330].INF [Creating video file Event-2-r1-s1.mpg for event 2]
04/30/07 15:27:46.990162 zmvideo[6330].ERR [Unable to generate video, check /var/www/zm/events/1/2/ffmpeg.log for details]

So I tried to see ffmpeg.log, but there isn't such file in this directory.

I'm sorry to ask you a lot of questions, but I'm a little bit lost...

thank you!

[amael]

all is good !

after re-installing ZM without --with-ffmpeg=... and changing zmvideo.pl line 323 and changing ZM_PATH_ZMS=/cgi-bin/nph-zms to ZM_PATH_ZMS=/cgi-bin/zms, everything is working well !

Thank you !

[John Williams]

For others thinking about Feisty, I posted some install instructions in the wiki that uses Peter Howard's deb packages. Much easier than compiling from source...