Re: [Motion-user] How to get smooth video via VLC ?

[Colin L. <cl...@gm...>]

On 13 July 2015 at 09:34, Mariusz Ciszewski <mar...@gm...> wrote:
> Is it possible two applications (motion and vlc) using the same /dev/video0

Not sure, I suspect not.  Try it and see.  Try viewing it with vlc at
the same time as motion is running.

Colin

> ?
>
> 2015-07-13 10:28 GMT+02:00 Colin Law <cl...@gm...>:
>>
>> On 13 July 2015 at 09:14, Mariusz Ciszewski <mar...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello.
>> >
>> > When I'm connected to motion stream (other PC via LAN and VLC software)
>> > I'm
>> > getting about 1 fps.
>> >
>> > Motion works on HP Thin Client T5730 2GB DDR2
>> > http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04142146.pdf
>> >
>> > Is it possible to increase video speed / smoth?
>> >
>> > What it the max fps fossible for motion video server ?
>>
>> Although this can be done I found that increasing the frame rate in
>> motion was problematic as it has to check every frame, I believe.  To
>> achieve the same effect I used vlc (command line version) to pick up
>> the video and generate a high quality stream which can be picked up
>> across the network, and also vlc generates a separate, smaller picture
>> size, mpjpeg stream that motion picks up.  That way I get a high
>> quality stream with minimum processor requirements, while motion does
>> its thing at a slower rate.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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