ACTi Video Server - Getting connected

Question

I have recently purchased two single channel video servers http://www.acti.com/CatalogV5/Product_Information.asp?PART_NO=ACD-2100 to provide remote analogue cameras. I have played for hours trying to get motion to use them as a source without success. I am still investigation and looking at using FFmpeg directly to do some conversion if necessary. I have managed to stream to VLC using RTSP, the unit supports mjpeg and mpeg4.

Any advice or thoughts please?

ffmpeg -version
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
  libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
  libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
  libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
  built on Jul 23 2008 22:38:24, gcc: 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)
ffmpeg      SVN-rUNKNOWN
libavutil   3212032
libavcodec  3352064
libavformat 3344896

Environment

Motion version:	3.2.11
ffmpeg version:	see above please
Libraries:	ffmpeg, mysql
Server OS:	Ubuntu Linux 8.04.1, 2.6.24-21-generic

-- ChrisPike - 28 Nov 2008

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