Re: [Motion-user] motion creates JPEG but no video

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

El jue, 20-11-2008 a las 10:52 +0100, LAPPERRIERE Silvère escribió:

Hi, 

> My problem: motion 3.2.11 creates jpeg pictures but no AVI video file.
> 
> Here is the output of the log file:
> 
> Nov 20 10:46:38 mx motion: [1] Thread 1 started
> Nov 20 10:46:39 mx motion: [1] Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
> Nov 20 10:46:39 mx motion: [1] Started stream webcam server in port 8081
> Nov 20 10:46:43 mx motion: [1] Codec not found: Operation now in progress
> Nov 20 10:46:43 mx motion: [1] ffopen_open error creating (new) file
> [/var/www/cam/test1/01-20081120104643.avi]: Operation now in progress
> Nov 20 10:46:44 mx motion: [1] Calling vid_close() from motion_cleanup
> Nov 20 10:46:44 mx motion: [1] vid_close: calling netcam_cleanup
> Nov 20 10:46:44 mx motion: [1] netcam camera handler: finish set, exiting
> Nov 20 10:46:44 mx motion: [0] Motion thread 1 restart
> 
> Here is my "motion.conf" config file:
> 
> # Rename this distribution example file to motion.conf
> #
> # This config file was generated by motion 3.2.11
> 
[snip]
> 
> 


Are you using debian or ubuntu ?

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


> # Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg movies in realtime (default: off)
> ffmpeg_cap_new on

> # Codec to used by ffmpeg for the video compression.
> # Timelapse mpegs are always made in mpeg1 format independent from
> this
> option.
> # Supported formats are: mpeg1 (ffmpeg-0.4.8 only), mpeg4 (default),
> and
> msmpeg4.
> # mpeg1 - gives you files with extension .mpg
> # mpeg4 or msmpeg4 - gives you files with extension .avi
> # msmpeg4 is recommended for use with Windows Media Player because
> # it requires no installation of codec on the Windows client.
> # swf - gives you a flash film with extension .swf
> # flv - gives you a flash video with extension .flv
> # ffv1 - FF video codec 1 for Lossless Encoding ( experimental )
> # mov - QuickTime ( testing )
> ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4
> 

mpeg4 codec , probably your ffmpeg libs doesn't support mpeg encoders
(except for mpeg1 that is free).

Cheers,
-- 
Angel Carpintero
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