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Zoneminder 1.32 made it into the "official" Ubuntu 19.04 repositories. 
Unfortunately the MP4 recording and playback does not work with the shipped version as there are missing libraries (libmp4v2-2). 
So events can only be saved in jpeg-frames, video recordings do not happen.
[State: 01 MAY 2019]

These instructions will show how to install Zoneminder 1.32-3 from the iconnor ppa with mp4 support to use video recordings.

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You will need to install LAMP then secure MySQL before installing Zoneminder.


Install needed packages:

 sudo apt-get install x264 x265 build-essential checkinstall gdebi



Secure MySQL or Mariadb:

 mysql_secure_installation


Add entry into my.cnf:

 nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf


Add the following to the end of the file:

 [mysqld]
 sql_mode = NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION

CTRL + o
CTRL + x

Restart MySQL:

 service mysql restart



Install the official repository for the current stable version 1.32:

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:iconnor/zoneminder-1.32

Now installing zoneminder by "sudo apt-get install zoneminder" will not work because of missing dependencies (as of 05/01/2019)



Download and compile libmp4v2-2:

 wget https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/mp4v2/mp4v2-2.0.0.tar.bz2
 
 tar xf mp4v2-2.0.0.tar.bz2
 cd mp4v2-2.0.0/
 mkdir build/ && cd build/
 ../configure CXXFLAGS='-fpermissive' CFLAGS='-fpermissive'
 make
Don't leave this folder.


Install libmp4v2-2 as debian package:

 sudo checkinstall
Follow the instructions on the screen. 
Change the description values as following: '''Name=libmp4v2-2''', '''Version=2.0''', '''Provides=libmp4v2-2'''



We have to repack the zoneminder deb-package to fix the dependencies issue (libx264-155).
Download the current deb-package:

 wget https://launchpad.net/~iconnor/+archive/ubuntu/zoneminder-1.32/+files/zoneminder_1.32.3-disco_amd64.deb

Extract the deb-package:

 ar x zoneminder_1.32.3-disco_amd64.deb
 tar xf control.tar.xz

Rewrite the required dependencies:
 nano control
search for "libx264-155" and move it after "libx264-152 | ".

Repack the deb-package:

 tar c {post,pre}{inst,rm} md5sums control | gzip -c > control.tar.gz
 ar rcs zoneminder_1.32.3-disco_repacked_amd64.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.xz


[[Install Zoneminder:]]

 sudo gdebi zoneminder_1.32.3-disco_repacked_amd64.deb


The database is not created automatically. Create the database with

 mysql -uroot -p < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql

 mysql -uroot -p -e "grant all on zm.* to 'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass';"

 mysqladmin -uroot -p reload

Fix permissions

 chmod 740 /etc/zm/zm.conf

 chown root:www-data /etc/zm/zm.conf

 chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/zoneminder/

Enable Zoneminder service

 systemctl enable zoneminder.service

Add a user for local cameras

 adduser www-data video

Enable Apache Features

 a2enmod cgi

 a2enmod rewrite

 a2enconf zoneminder

Add timezone to PHP

 nano /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini

Search for [Date] (Ctrl + w then type Date and press Enter) and make changes as follows for your time zone

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = America/New_York

Ctrl+o Enter to save

CTRL+x to exit

Restart Apache

 service apache2 reload

Zoneminder should work! Open Zoneminder in a web browser (http://server-ip/zm).