well, I solved my case. I tried to manually run the video export perl script:
sudo -u www-data zmvideo.pl -e 2 -r 1 -s 1 -F 30 -o and found that script was complaining about permission error when writing ffmpeg.log revieweing the perl script code I found that ffmpeg.log was being written to the ZM events folder, so: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/cache/zoneminder sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/zoneminder/events solved the problem -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740809 Title: export failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zoneminder/+bug/740809/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
