Hello, for everyone's benefit at [email protected], please see my 
message attached below, and a quick thank-you goes to Sebastian Pichelhofer;   
He answered my question about how to "flash" the Elphel 353 camera with newly 
compiled code.  I was able to compile all code myself, and flash it to the 
camera using the web GUI, using a URL of this form on my local network:  
http://192.168.0.9/reflash.php?NFS=192.168.0.15:/nfs/latest80/
That worked the first time I tried it, and I'm now running the firmware I 
compiled based on a CVS checkout of the latest 8.0.8.48 firmware.

Sebastian wrote:
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http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Usage_Tutorials

If your cameras flash image is not totally outdated you can also
reflash over a web gui:
http://blogs.elphel.com/2009/09/firmware-update-made-easier/
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Now, my message on the topic of ZoneMinder video surveillance application was 
this -- I have no specific question but I appreciate all debugging and 
code-related suggestions.  I switch to my university e-mail address and want to 
see if my message is sent out to the list properly this time:

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gary Crum <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:53 PM
Subject: developing Elphel 353 camera code (for ZoneMinder video surveillance, 
RTSP)
To: [email protected]


Hi All, members of [email protected],

I am working with an Elphel 353 camera, and the ZoneMinder 1.24.2 software for 
video surveillance running on a separate computer running Linux Mint 9 (based 
on Ubuntu 10.04).  Any related interest here?

My main question:  Can anyone point me to instructions for flashing new code to 
the 353 camera?  I found and followed instructions for obtaining and building 
source code, but I don't see the link to flashing and testing instructions.


Read on for more details!

The Elphel wiki page about ZoneMinder use here is good, and suggests that the 
best solution for this setup will be to use the relatively new RTSP streaming 
support in both the camera and ZoneMinder:
http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Elphel_cameras_and_Zoneminder

I have tried using the RTP/RTSP solution, and with verbose debugging enabled in 
ZoneMinder I see this error in log files:
10/11/10 17:14:43.184461 zmc_m4[6275].FAT-zm_rtsp.cpp/471 [Unable to get RTP 
Info identifier from response 'RTSP/1.0 200 OK

I obtained source code to ZoneMinder (using "apt-get source --compile 
zoneminder"), changed it to not require the RTP Info identifier, but then I see 
failure of the ffmpeg MJPEG codec to decode frames.  I wasn't quite able to 
enable full debugging in the ffmpeg library as used by ZoneMinder.

So, now I want to go at it from the other side, looking at the implementation 
of RTSP in the Elphel 353 camera.  I "dove in" and setup my development 
environment for the camera firmware and compiled it all.  Everything in 
KDevelop is looking good, free software is great.  I see the relatively new 
implementation of RTSP in the source file apps/astreamer/rtsp.cpp, with many 
commented out lines, maybe I can help improve this code and more fully conform 
to the RTSP specification.  (For example, the RTSP specification at 
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2326.txt does indeed require an RTP-Info field, in 
section 12.33.)


I have not yet flashed the Elphel 353 camera with the code I have built, can 
anyone point me at instructions for doing this?  I think I came across these 
instructions at one time, but today I don't see the instructions, looking at
http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Main_Page .

The firmware on the camera I am using is release 8.0.4, and I just checked out 
and built the current 8.0.8 software using CVS.

Thanks,
-Gary
[email protected] or [email protected]
tel. (801)449-1426
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