Re: [Motion-user] Psychedelic Pictures

[David P. <da...@de...>]

I'm not sure... how can I tell?  I just have netcam_url set to 
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/11

Is there another setting that I missed?

David

On 5/10/21 4:37 PM, Mike Wilson wrote:
> 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... 
> <mailto: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:
>
>     This is what it should look like
>
>
>     This is the view after an hour:
>
>     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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