Re: [Motion-user] Motion always generating .jpg files

[Roman G. <hac...@gm...>]

The config options changed in trunk, see:
http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/IntuitiveOptionNamesDiscussion


2009/3/27 Andy Brown <an...@th...>:
> Hi all,
>
> Been using motion for a while on different systems, etc at home and work
> and on the whole does a great job, however at a busy office I've got
> motion capturing data, and its filling the drive up with thousands of
> .jpg files.
>
> When it sees movement it triggers:
> [9] event_newfile: File of type 1 saved to:
> /var/www/security/cam9//01-20090327142223-00.jpg
> [1] event_newfile: File of type 1 saved to:
> /var/www/security/cam1//01-20090327142223-01.jpg
> [9] event_newfile: File of type 1 saved to:
> /var/www/security/cam9//01-20090327142223-01.jpg
>
> etc.
> Now in my motion.conf I have:
> output_all off
> output_normal off
> output_motion off
> snapshot_interval 0
> target_dir /var/www/security/
> snapshot_filename %Y/%m/%d/%H/%M/%S-snapshot
> jpeg_filename preview
> movie_filename %Y/%m/%d/%H%M%S
> timelapse_filename %Y/%m/%d-timelapse
> thread /etc/motion/security_cam1.conf
> thread /etc/motion/security_cam2.conf
> thread /etc/motion/security_cam3.conf
> thread /etc/motion/security_cam4.conf
> thread /etc/motion/security_cam5.conf
> thread /etc/motion/security_cam6.conf
> thread /etc/motion/security_cam7.conf
> thread /etc/motion/security_cam8.conf
> thread /etc/motion/security_cam9.conf
> thread /etc/motion/security_cam10.conf
> thread /etc/motion/security_cam11.conf
> thread /etc/motion/security_cam12.conf
>
> And the in the individual camera threads:
> netcam_url http://192.168.200.5/VIDEO.CGI
> input 8
> norm 0
> frequency 0
> rotate 0
> width 320
> height 240
> locate off
> text_right %Y-%m-%d\n%T-%q
> text_changes on
> text_double off
>
> target_dir /var/www/security/cam1/
> output_normal off
> snapshot_filename %Y/%m/%d/%H/%M/%S-snapshot
> jpeg_filename preview
> movie_filename %Y/%m/%d/%H%M%S
> timelapse_filename %Y/%m/%d-timelapse
>
> stream_port 8081
> stream_quality 50
> stream_motion off
> stream_maxrate 1
> stream_localhost off
> stream_limit 5000
>
>
> So from what I can tell motion shouldn't be saving these
> files/snapshots. Can anyone advise why its doing this?
> I'm running motion-20090113-051001 motion Version trunk-r441, Copyright
> 2000-2005 Jeroen Vreeken/Folkert van Heusden/Kenneth Lavrsen
>
>
> Thanks for any help you can give!
>
> --
> Andy
> e: andy @ thebmwz3.co.uk
> e: andy @ broadcast-tech.co.uk
> w: http://www.thebmwz3.co.uk
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>
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