Re: [Motion-user] Videos start before the event with movie_passthrough on

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

Try changing your camera settings to CBR with the lowest keyframe intervals

On Wed, 7 Oct 2026, 13:09 Arvid Ihnen via Motion-user, <
mot...@li...> wrote:

> Hi,
>   I am using motion 4.7.0. I have appr. 8 IP cameras, most sending H.265
> streams and will detect motion by itself and trigger the recording by using
> the motion http api.
> To lower CPU usage I turned movie_passthrough to on. Since then I
> recognized, that the begin of the recorded video starts several seconds to
> a minute before the event happen until I restart motion.
> The record video is much longer than the time between on_movie_start event
> and on_movie_end event.
> Here are some configuration values, which might be relevant for the issue:
> movie_codec        hevc
> movie_passthrough  on
> movie_duplicate_frames off
> timelapse_interval 10
> timelapse_mode daily
> timelapse_codec mpg
> framerate 15
> pre_capture 0
> post_capture 1000
> event_gap 10
> movie_max_time 0
>
> netcam_highres not set
>
> Best Regards
>    Arvid
>
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