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

[Bob Elzer]

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
 

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> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us 
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at 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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