Background filter not creating video

jdppm7 · Post by **jdppm7** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:22 am

I have a background filter created that should include all of the videos that are older than right now (date less than now) and are not archived and I have checked "Archive all matches" and "Create video for all matches." I have saved the event as background. The archive seems to work fine but the video does not get generated. Note that video generation seems to work fine if I view an event and click the video link. If I create the filter and do not save it but execute it manually it seems to work fine.

I searched the forums but don't seem to find any similar problems. I've ran through the logs and cannot seem to find anything that stands out. Any ideas? Possible bug?

jdppm7 · Post by **jdppm7** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:44 pm

Hah! Cannot believe I didn't include this, sorry: Version is 1.23.1

jdppm7 · Post by **jdppm7** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:29 pm

I did have an error in my apache error log. By following the log file I determined it was occurring when you click on the Save link in the ZM Filter window.

SQL-DEBUG: select * from Filters order by Name, referer: http://172.22.10.111/index.php?view=fil ... ecute_cmd=

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:05 pm

Are you using the deep storage filesystem option? If so then it may be related to the issue being discussed in this thread.

jdppm7 · Post by **jdppm7** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:16 pm

Ah, saw that thread and no I am not using that option. Sorry didn't think to mention that.

One thing that is even WEIRDER now is that I hopped into zmfilter.pl and increased the debug level and followed the log file so see if there were any noticeable errors. So I restarted zonemider and it started working. Any ideas there?

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:20 pm

Not off the top of my head I'm afraid

jdppm7 · Post by **jdppm7** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:22 pm

Well I'm not afraid to hop into the code if you can give me a place to start.

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:05 pm

If you can get it not work again then you should see something in zmvideo.log about failures to generate video and/or ffmpeg.log in the event directories themselves. If it is working correctly now though you might be a bit stuck for diagnosis.

jdppm7 · Post by **jdppm7** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:09 pm

Well now it is working. I restarted the zm service several times and have toggled the "background" switch on and off and it's chugging away now. I just cannot seem to figure out what the problem was. I'll post back if anything changes.

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Background filter not creating video

Background filter not creating video

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Apache error

No deep storage

Debugging

Now suddenly working