Im unable to reproduce this. Backed up my functions.php and replaced it with one from SVN rev 3304 (latest) and everything works including streaming.
Do you have php short tags disabled in your php.ini? (running fedora?)

mastertheknife.

Hello, i installed ZineMinder 1.24.3 on Archlinux 2.6.37-ARCH, from the my package, and when i go to localhost/zm, i can't see the page.
In /var/log/httpd/error_log

Pre-install

Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list as follows: Where in my original sources.list I have

deb xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/debian/ lenny main
deb-src xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/debian/ lenny main

deb xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ lenny/updates main
deb-src xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ lenny/updates main
Edit this so at the end of eash line it reads

deb xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

deb xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
Then you'll be wanting to run

# apt-get update
and
# apt-get install build-essential apache2 mysql-server netpbm libssl-dev libjpeg62-dev libmime-perl libwww-perl libarchive-tar-perl libdate-manip-perl libarchive-zip-perl libmime-lite-perl libdbi-perl libdbd-mysql libdbd-mysql-perl libpcre3-dev php5 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-auth-mysql libmysqlclient15-dev gnutls-bin ffmpeg pciutils
Course there'll be a whole load of dependencies to install so obviously 'Y' to the proceeding installation question.

Now might be an idea to 'ctrl+d, $ mkdir ~/zminder && cd ~/zminder' to keep all the following program files in the same place.

Before the installation can proceed, there's one more dependancy required, that of Perl's PHP::Serialisation library. This allows zoneminder to store data on rows in a serialised fashion. If this is the first time you've used the perl shell, it'll ask you some questions. Read them. But you'll probably be wanting to answer yes to all of them.

(You'll have to be root - 'sudo bash' for Ubuntu users)

# perl -MCPAN -e shell
install PHP::Serialization
exit
Then back to the folder:

[ctrl+d ]
$ cd ~/zminder
$ wget xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxZoneMinder-1.24.2.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf ZoneMinder-1.24.2.tar.gz
Then obviously:

$ cd ZoneMinder-1.24.2
and then

$ ./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/zm --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin --with-webuser=www-data --with-webgroup=www-data --with-libarch=lib --with-ffmpeg=/usr/local
Sometimes (like in my case) there's a problem with the ssl headers so change the command line as follows:

$ ./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/zm --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin --with-webuser=www-data --with-webgroup=www-data --with-libarch=lib --with-ffmpeg=/usr/local ZM_SSL_LIB=openssl
So now that it's all configured, how about some funky shizzle?

$ make
[$ su]
# make install

Logs from ZM after WebGUI start (fixed /tmp/zm issue by mkdir & chmod 777):

This is dirty, but the main issue is using configure to check for existence of header files in 'non-standard' locations. (not to blame zm; configure is the bad guy!). AC_CHECK_HEADER should not 'warn' or silently 'undef'... it should die()/exit/bailout. why does it 'check' and continue if there is no solution if the check fails ? in this case its more complicated: if <libavutil/avutil.h> is gone, there might be <ffmepg/avutil.h> worth using. but if _both_ do not exist then it should die()/exit/bailout.

anyways this won't fix it completely: AC_CHECK_HEADER / configure is the bad guy here. there is another issue with --with-mysql which i will explain in another post.

o FEATURE - Mapped memory (versus shared) is now the default.

Any way to install this on a Ubuntu-System with a rpm file?