Well, sort of. Apparently Zone Minder will do it. I downloaded the Live CD and tried it, and it wouldn’t boot properly (might be media problems). I couldn’t get it to finish booting. I found another Xubuntu based LiveCD but the system I was running it in only had 256MB of RAM and it didn’t like me installing SSH to get remove access. I’m not really sure why X11 is enabled on a LiveCD for a web application server. Oh well.

I finally discovered that Zoneminder is available in Debian sid (unstable). So I set about installing this. I got it all set up, it seems to work well (128M+ memory minimum, otherwise there are OOM issues). Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to like my web cams. I have 2 USB web cams. One is a Creative WebCam NX Pro, and the other is a Logitech notebook web cam. Both are detected by the module auto-loader and have appropriate modules inserted. The Logitech camera completely fails in Zone Minder: The Zmu application fails to obtain the setting information from it. The Creative worked a little better, I was able to get all the settings except the Palette information. Unfortunately, neither V4Lv1 or V4Lv2 would give me a properl image. V4Lv1 gave me no image or just completely black (with no timestamp tag, so that means it was failing to obtain an image from the device). V4Lv2 gave me a “dirty” image; the image was half covered with moving horizontal lines and the rest of the screen was just black. Oh well. Guess I’ll give up on the Embedded CCTV with Linux project. It’s all fun though, I’m always looking for ways to use that old hardware!