Re: [Motion-user] Slow recording

[Dave H. <da...@ho...>]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 01:33:23 +1100
Adam Goryachev <mai...@we...> wrote:

> On 8/10/2016 10:43, Yan Seiner wrote:
> > I have motion set up and running.  I am running a wired ipcam set to
> > send 2 fps.
> >
> > Motion is set up to record 2fps.
> >
> > However, when motion is detected, motion only saves an image every
> > 2-3 seconds.  Thinking it might be slow storage, I am now saving
> > the images to ramdisk, but still, motion only stores 1 frame every
> > 2-3 seconds. CPU usage is around 30-60% so the process is not cpu
> > bound.
> >
> > How do I get motion to record the full 2fps when motion is detected?
> > What am I missing?
> >
> I'm no expert with motion, but I think you need to record a video
> with your 2fps, I don't think motion will record every frame as a
> stand-alone image.

I'm no expert either, but I do know that it will happily just record
every frame as an image, because that is exactly what I do to reduce
CPU load on a Raspberry Pi.

Cheers, Dave

> Can you provide some details from your config files and/or logs? Have 
> you tried to enable more detailed logs perhaps at debug levels, and 
> checked them at the time of a motion event?
> 
> Hope that helps, if not, please provide some more details on your
> config and results.
> 
> Regards,
> Adam