Re: [Motion-user] raspberry pi libcamera motion bulseye

[tosiara <to...@gm...>]

Also, you can check which formats are available:

v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ex -d /dev/video0

Maybe there are other resolutions that would get wider picture from the sensor


On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 4:59 PM tosiara <to...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > Before the upgrade to bullseye i also used 640x480 and got the whole FOV.
>
> Unfortunately, there is nothing motion can do if this is the FOV that
> camera provides over V4L2 interface (since MPlayer shows the same)
>
> You could ask Raspberry community, maybe someone came across this
> issue and has a fix
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 3:58 PM Ed Kapitein <ed...@ka...> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, mplayer plays it just fine:
> >
> > Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
> > VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Planar YV12
> >
> > and is has the same FOV as the motion picture. [1]
> >
> > Before the upgrade to bullseye i also used 640x480 and got the whole FOV.
> >
> > [3] is a video clips made with the old setup.
> >
> > More info on FOV and binning (which i think is happening) is on [1]
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Ed
> >
> > [1] http://www.kapitein.org/pictures/motion.jpg
> >
> > [2] https://picamera.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.12/fov.html
> >
> > [3] http://www.kapitein.org/pictures/04-20211028034157.mp4
> >
> >
> > PS
> >
> > Motion gives me a signal when the mouse is caught, so we can release it
> > into the wild.
> >
> > No animals where harmed during the recording of this clip ;-)
> >
> >
> > On 11/15/21 1:52 PM, tosiara wrote:
> > > Are you able to play 640x480 mode in ffplay or vlc? Does it give you
> > > the same FOV as motion or different?
> > >
> > > Which resolution did you use in motion prior to upgrade to bullseye?
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 2:42 PM Ed Kapitein <ed...@ka...> wrote:
> > >> Hi Tosiara,
> > >>
> > >> The motion log file is attached as requested.
> > >> The only way i can get motion to work is to use 640x480 as the width/height.
> > >> [1] is a picture, taken with libcamera-still, that shows the complete FOV
> > >> [2] is a picture from motion, which only has a small FOV.
> > >>
> > >> Do you have a raspberry pi (3B+) with a V2 camera module? (2B should be good too)
> > >> If you do, you could download the official raspberry pi OS from [3] and use a fresh SD card to try the new libcamera setup with motion.
> > >>
> > >> [1] http://www.kapitein.org/pictures/libcamera-still.jpg
> > >> [2] http://www.kapitein.org/pictures/motion.jpg
> > >> [3] https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_armhf/images/raspios_lite_armhf-2021-11-08/2021-10-30-raspios-bullseye-armhf-lite.zip
> > >>
> > >> Kind regards,
> > >> Ed
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> ><SNIP><