#zoneminder

I have spare gpus in my server anyway I could use them/

rexd666: So ummm, this: Oct 3 13:20:39 elvandar zmc_m8[29157]: FAT [Error encoding video frame packet: Invalid argument#012]

"encoding" ?

"8" is one of the h264 cameras

Bhaal: All the time or just occasionally?

That's the first time I have seen it.... Just wondering what it's "encoding" as it's meant to be passing through

I am in the middle of debugging something else, but then I will look for that message

np, no rush

thanks rexd666

Bhaal: So that error message should maybe be “Error writing packet to output stream”, but I need to check the code for that error handling as I am not sure it is correct. https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder/blob/f...

So it's "decoding" ? :)

as said, no rush

and I'l bbl

Well yes and no, it is always decoding for analysis and other functions. But we take the packets and write them out to a new video file, key point is a stream of h264 packets is not an mp4 video file. So we operate at the packet level saving them once we know they are video packets.

I am not analising

analysing

I mean, checking for motion

All my cameras are record only

It is still decoding just not doing anything with it.

Hrm...

I guess... What a waste of cpu

The point where h264 passthrough takes over is after the frame is decoded as it is only passing valid packets

Yes I didn’t write that part just took it over to make it work

But I have always been modect so not been a worry for me

I am being more sarcastic than anything

I will keep it in mind sometime and maybe check it camera is in record mode and therefore no motion detect needed and no images needed, would be videowriter on, jpeg off and mode record then skip decode

Also, how can I view the stream then? Currently it's still only mjpeg so that's one of the reasons it's decoding...

I cannot find a FF plugin which will let me watch mpeg streams

I should do this on a faster CPU

inflex: maybe to start with, I just use VM’s for playing around

and h264 is playing around

Bhaal: in good news for you I have managed to get that same error message, but I was testing new code under the remote source cameras not in ffmpeg ones

haha cool, also let me know when that is working...

And if you have a clue on how I can use the html5 video thing to view the live and raw h264 feeds that would be awesome!

mmm yes, h264 -> HTML5 live would be nice

inflex: i found the h264 branch only builds under ubuntu 15.04, it won't build under 14.04

well, it almost built, looks like yet more odd conflicts

maybe less trouble at this point to jump from 14.04LTS -> 15

i was using libav, not ffmpeg, if you are building ffmpeg from source, it may work for you

liucougar: something is fubar'd, so it might be less trauma for me to just bump to 15.04 and rely on the fact that it now has gotten back with ffmpeg iirc

yes, 15.04 does have ffmpeg (not libav any more)

liucougar: I have it running under 14.04 and also had it running under 12.04

rexd666: Been thinking... If the machine had a nvidia gfx card in it, could the gpu be used to do the decoding/encoding?

Ahhh

Gets talked about everynow and then.

ffmpeg might do it with vdpau

I have a GTX550ti lying around...

I think it works best when gpu decodes and draws to screen, which is how they are designed to do it

not according to this

Just wondering if there are any arguments I can pass to ffmpeg to enable it

Or does it work by default if a card exists?

Or I can only give arguments for encoding, not decoding..?

I doubt it is that simple

Now this is annoying, run zm on my dev box using zmpkg.pl, with my test camera set to remote and I get that same error as your camera 8. Run zmc -m8 in debug and it runs with no error

should be m3 not 8

rexd666: I do not get the error repeatedly (that I know of) will check logs, I just happened to see it while watching the logs...

It's happened twice today, same camera...

Which is also the same hardware as the other cameras...

Raspberry Pi A+ with a usb ethernet dongle...

Can't seem to get the ZM dpkg to install, well, it does... but never exits

last line is - "insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'"

and if I try to do anything with apt now it wants me to finish configuring the ZM package before doing anything more :(

asker-alterego : you there?

btw, at least afer I had upgraded to 15.04 the h264 package did actually build :)

oh my wrong, it eventually exited with an error

knnniggett: am here - will log in on

In 45 mins

seems like I FINALLY have success

even managed to get the damned Foscam C1 to work again

knnniggett: here

saw your email about cake - I'll set up a clean ubuntu machine and document what happens

Mmm... I see the interesting technique for the analysis frames for the motion detect, are there multiple framing options for that or is it always the 'outline', as opposed to perhaps just a rectangular boxing?

Hey all

Zoneminder is started. Fixed the php date issue in php.ini but I can't get past the socket issue. "socket_sendto( /var/lib/zoneminder/sock/zms-"

in that directory first I only saw zmdc.sock. Then I saw zms-*correctnum*w.sock, but the log is erroring on not finding zms-*correctnum*s.sock

any Idea why that's happening?

as per apache logs, I commented out the /cgi-bin/ scriptalias in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

I at least see where the stream would be now

still no socket though