From: <ham...@mc...> - 2007-06-18 21:11:52
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I had something similar on my Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000, and after unplugging the camera then reattaching it, Motion worked fine with it. Just something to try. Sincerely, Andrew Hamilton -------------- Original message from Francois <fr...@fr...>: -------------- > Hello, > > I'm new to this list, and maybe my questions will seem stupid. First sorry > for my bad english. > I need to record what's going on in my backyard and I would like to use my > webcam for that (logitech sphere). I run a fedora core 6 distro. > I've just discovered "motion", and try to understand how to make it work. I > have to use the "uvcvideo" driver to make my webcam to work. > I tried with the official release of motion, but I couldn't make it work. > Then I grabbed the latest beta (motion-3.2.8_beta1.tar.gz), and applied the > patch (mjpeg2-r184.patch) available on the web site. > Now, running motion, I get that : > > [root@celtes2 trunk]# motion > [0] could not open configfile /usr/local/etc/motion.conf: No such file or > directory > [0] Not config file to process using default values > [1] Thread started > [1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo" > [1] cap.card: "UVC Camera (046d:08c2)" > [1] cap.bus_info: "0000:00:1d.7" > [1] cap.capabilities=0x04000001 > [1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE > [1] - STREAMING > [1] v4l2_select_input: name = "Camera 1", type 0x00000002, status 00000000 > [1] - CAMERA > [1] Device doesn't support VIDIOC_G_STD > [1] Supported palettes: > [1] 0: MJPG (MJPEG) > [1] 1: YUYV (Uncompressed) > [1] VIDIOC_TRY_FMT failed for format YUYV (Input/output error). > [1] ioctl(VIDIOCGMBUF) - Error device does not support memory map > [1] V4L capturing using read is deprecated! > [1] Motion only supports mmap. > [1] Capture error calling vid_start > [1] Thread finishing... > [root@celtes2 trunk]# > > I suppose I made a mistake, but I don't know where. Ideas would be welcomed. > thanks. Francois > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Motion-user mailing list > Mot...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user > http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome |
From: Francois <fr...@fr...> - 2007-06-19 06:20:47
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On lundi 18 juin 2007, ham...@mc... wrote: > I had something similar on my Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000, and after > unplugging the camera then reattaching it, Motion worked fine with it. > Just something to try. Bingo. You 're right. I got to unplug, then plug and reboot, and now it works. I have to understand now : 1) how I can take a picture every 30 seconds, and make a movie of them automatically, i could check on the evening when I'm back from work. As I do not have lots of room on my computer, i will have to overwrite the file each day. 2) how I can broadcast the stream on a web server I could set up locally. 3) and finally, if I can do both (1 and 2) The docs are huge on the web site so it's gonna take some time :-)) Again, thank you for your advice, now the camera works. Francois |
From: Kenneth L. <ke...@la...> - 2007-06-19 06:51:35
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Francois wrote: > On lundi 18 juin 2007, ham...@mc... wrote: > >> I had something similar on my Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000, and after >> unplugging the camera then reattaching it, Motion worked fine with it. >> Just something to try. >> > > Bingo. You 're right. > I got to unplug, then plug and reboot, and now it works. > > I have to understand now : > > 1) how I can take a picture every 30 seconds, and make a movie of them > automatically, i could check on the evening when I'm back from work. As I > do not have lots of room on my computer, i will have to overwrite the file > each day. > Read the docs: http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MpegFilmsFFmpeg > 2) how I can broadcast the stream on a web server I could set up locally. > http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebcamServer > 3) and finally, if I can do both (1 and 2) > Just do both You should give those docs some time instead of asking without having read at all. Kenneth |
From: Joerg W. <mo...@al...> - 2007-06-19 06:47:22
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Francois wrote: > > 1) how I can take a picture every 30 seconds, and make a movie of them > automatically, i could check on the evening when I'm back from work. As= I > do not have lots of room on my computer, i will have to overwrite the > file each day. 2) how I can broadcast the stream on a web server I coul= d > set up locally. 3) and finally, if I can do both (1 and 2) > Hello Francois, 1) is easy: you can use the 'timelapse' feature. 2) is easy as well: motion can offer a live stream without the need of an external web server. Look at the 'webcam_port' option. But, I just don't understand why you want to use motion if you don't make use of 'the feature': motion detection. Instead of making timelapse movies, you can record real-time movies when something in front of the camera is moving. Motion was designed to do exactly that. All the other features are more like add-ons:-) Brgds Joerg. |
From: Francois <fr...@fr...> - 2007-06-19 17:58:08
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On mardi 19 juin 2007, Joerg WEBER wrote: Hello, Finally, it works ;-) The problem was caused because when I ran configure against "motion", I forgot to add the parameter --enable-shared My mistake. Now, I have to understand, why "motion" exits, the http server, the mgp file is no longer created, when motion detects a move outside. Once it detects a move outside, it writes a .jpeg file, and stop the http server, and doesn't record anymore the frame to the mpg file. Certainly a pb with my config file. Back to the docs to read ;-) Francois |