Re: [Motion-user] Psychedelic Pictures

[Mike W. <kno...@gm...>]

Are you using tcp for RTSP? If not, I would give that a try.

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 4:57 PM David Powell <da...@de...> wrote:

> I have a strange issue with Motion using RTSP cameras.  I have Motion
> version 4.1.1+git20181002-062a328 running on a Raspberry Pi controlling 3
> MJPEG cameras and 2 RTSP cameras.  They all work fine at night with the IR
> lights and all, but when the sun comes up, one RTSP camera (and to a lesser
> extent, the other RTSP camera) will, over an hour or so, slowly start
> changing colors until it looks like a black-light poster from the 70's.
> Here is an example (hopefully, if images are allowed on this mailing list).
>
> This is what it should look like:
>
> [image: This is what it should look like]
>
>
> This is the view after an hour:
>
> [image: That's messed up!]
>
> If I restart that camera (Action->Restart), it immediately clears up but
> starts to degrade again after a few minutes.  The other RTSP camera does
> the same thing, but to a lesser extent.  None of the MJPEG cameras has ever
> behaved thusly.
>
> The motion log shows a couple of these per hour of operation for this
> camera:
>
> *[12:nc12:shed] [ERR] [NET] [May 10 15:24:07]
> netcam_rtsp_handler_reconnect: Normal resolution: Reconnecting with
> camera....*
>
> I thought I might have just bought a couple of crappy cameras, but even
> when the picture is messed up I can stream it with FFPLAY and it looks fine
> there.
>
> I'm not even sure where to begin trying to fix this. I've checked the
> resolution setting and it is correct.  Has anyone else seen this behavior?
> David
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