Re: [Motion-user] Using motion with mpeg stream from Hauppauge PVR card

[David W. H. <dav...@gm...>]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:19:56 -0500, Colin Law <cl...@go...> wrote:

> Further to this I have at last managed to persuade vlc to generate
> mjpeg output that motion is happy with, eliminating the need for
> ffmpeg.  With my PVR card as the input this is what I have used (cvlc
> is the command line version of vlc that is installed along with vlc)
>
> cvlc --no-audio PVR:///dev/video0
> --sout-http-mime="multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=--7b3cc56e5f51db803f790dad720ed50a"
> --sout "#transcode{vcodec=MJPG,fps=4,vb=800,width=384,height=288,acodec=none}:std{access=http,mux=mpjpeg,dst=0.0.0.0:8090/stream.mjpg}"

> Then in motion.conf I have
> netcam_url http://localhost:8090/stream.mjpg
> and it is all working perfectly, for me anyway.

YES!!!!  Thank you very much.

This is now working with a microseven wireless ip camera on my system,
with cvlc converting the h.264 camera output to mjpeg.

Regards, Dave Hodgins