Re: [Motion-user] motion not creating videos

[Angel C. <ac...@te...>]

El mar, 11-11-2008 a las 22:46 -0500, gnat escribió: 
> Hello,

Hi Dave,

> 	I'm a new motion user that is having some issues.
> 
> 	I'm working on a Mac running 10.5.5 that I had some issues getting  
> motion 3.2.11 to compile. I'm using a TRENDnet TV-IP100W-N over WiFi  
> as my camera source.

First at all i doubt that port of MacOsX will work properly as it not
maintained because no one sent any feedback since long long time ago.

Twiki topics :

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MacOSX

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MacOSXPatch



> 	The usage problem is that it is only grabbing 2 - 3 images a second  
> for the stills and does not generate a movie after the event is  
> complete. I've been testing in non-daemon mode with no messages that  
> indicate a problem (just the image creation messages).

2-3 frames per second ?! looks that it's a big problem , i tried from
BSD with 10fps 640x480 with default setting.

Notice that you can set max framerate using framerate , but not width /
height for network cameras , so check what is the image size for the
netcam_url you set.

> 
> 	The camera reports that it is running at 20 frames a second.

You can check this using a wget in example , but it's not the same get a
stream at 20 fps than get and process it.

> 
> 	The build issues I had (in case they are relevant) were:
> 
> 	1) I had to export LIBS with my (MacPorts) lib directory for it to  
> find ffmpeg even though I supplied the configure option for it.
> 	2) It reports that I don't have pthreads even though I do (looking at  
> configure, it appears to recognize that I do, but does not set the  
> proper variables for later).
> 	3) I had to comment out the BSD version of the setpgrp() call and to  
> use setpgrp() with no arguments.

You can add a formal patch and include in MacOSX Twiki topics. 

[snip config]

> 	If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate it.

Probably motion is not working fine and need more work before starting
figure out what the problem in config file.

> Thanks,
> -dave

Cheers,
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