RE: Yet another Zoneminder question - and it's a weird one!

Where is the video.cgi located ?

Is the server setup to allow cgi in that directory ?

If it's in cgi-bin have you tried adding /cgi-bin/video.cgi


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On
> Behalf Of Jim March
> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 11:33 AM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Yet another Zoneminder question - and it's a weird one!
>
> Folks,
>
> I've added two DCS-920 cameras to my setup. Zoneminder box is
> based off the latest Bluecherry liveCD, ZM 1.24.0 on Xubuntu 8.10.
>
> The 920 is a WiFi version of the 910 and I've found very
> little info on it.
>
> I'm running the cameras at 640x480 low-grade JPEG. I can't
> get more than .65 to .70fps off them UNLESS I have another
> browser window on some system on the local net continuously
> query the camera's video feed - in that case, Zoneminder's
> FPS goes to a more usable state just under 3fps, which I can
> live with.
>
> Before I grab a bell, book and candle next lemme show you how
> it's working now.
>
> From a regular web browser window talking straight to the
> camera, I can go to a camera's IP address such as:
>
> http://192.168.0.54
>
> ...and login. From there I can access the latest image snapshot at:
>
> http://192.168.0.54/image.jpg
>
> OR the camera's continuous video feed at:
>
> http://192.168.0.54/video.cgi
>
> ...and this line seems to work too:
>
> http://192.168.0.54/video.cgi?
>
> Getting the camera's video feed gives me a somewhat "choppy"
> view, as it will delay refreshing every few seconds for a
> split second...but when it's displaying video, it looks to be
> about 5 to 8 FPS.
>
> (Note: I have static camera IP addresses, and the ZM central
> box is on the same internal net.)
>
> Great. So go over to Zoneminder and it'll work off of
> /image.jpg just fine, but at low frame rates (under 1 frame
> per second) unless I have a separate browser window pointing
> to the camera's /video.cgi feed - then it quadruples to
> something usable.
>
> I can't get zoneminder to see the /video.cgi or /video.cgi?
> feeds at all - no picture.
>
> ZM setup stuff:
>
> I've been looking at this thread:
>
> http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12233&sid=f51
> f2ed70b9d332ce9dc9e4a8ce9ca4b
>
> ...for the 910 cameras and ZM 1.23 series. In ZM version 1.24
> I see no way to set anything in Options>Network related to
> "ZM_NETCAM_REGEXPS"
> or similar. Am I missing something?
>
> In the camera's setup window in ZM I'm doing "source type" as
> remote of course, "remote protocol" as HTTP, "remote method"
> is "simple", remote hostname is [username]@[cameraipaddress]
> (this is behind a firewall so I'm not bothering with
> passwords), "remote host port" is "80".
>
> Under "remote host path" I've tried all of the following:
>
> video.cgi
> /video.cgi
> video.cgi?
> /video.cgi
>
> Thanks!
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