[Motion-user] Problem Starting Motion

[Rob V. <n6...@co...>]

Hi,

I have just installed Motion 3.2.4.  I checked and confirmed I had RPM's
installed for MySQL, and ffmpeg (according the "preparation for install"
section of the guide).  When I launch Motion from the command line with
the option -s, I get the following:

[root@trojan ~]# motion -s
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
[0] Motion running in setup mode.
[0] Thread device: /dev/video0 input 1
[0] Thread is from /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
[0] Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 15351
[1] Thread started
[1] Failed with YUV420P, trying YUV422 palette: Invalid argument
[1] Raw changes: 26743 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 -
noise level: 90
[1] Raw changes:  8076 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 -
noise level: 90
[1] Raw changes:  5674 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 -
noise level: 117
[1] Raw changes:  4626 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 -
noise level: 117
[1] Raw changes:  4494 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 -
noise level: 117
[1] Raw changes:  2259 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 -
noise level: 117

... and it continues until I give it a control-C.  There are no files in
my designated "target_dir" (i.e. no snapshots, motion videos, etc.).

Here is a snip from my syslog:

<start>
Jan 15 20:47:31 trojan motion: [0] Processing thread 0 - config
file /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
Jan 15 20:47:31 trojan motion: [0] Thread is
from /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
Jan 15 20:47:31 trojan kernel: tuner 0-0060: TV freq (268435455.93) out
of range (44-958)
Jan 15 20:47:37 trojan motion: [0] Motion terminating
<end>

I am using FC3, Kernel 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 (no modifications).  I use a
TV/Video Capture card called AirLink 101 ATVPCI883, which is remarkably
similar to a KWorld card model LTV883 - both use the Conexant cx88 chip
(a replacement to the bt8x8 chips).  Otherwise the AirLink brand card is
a very rare animal - Google gives me very little.  The camera is a
composite video type, brand is SWANN.  The set-up is just one (1)
camera; hence no extra threads.

I get video (via the composite input) using XAWTV - no problem.  My
review of the "known issues" page shows an issue with the PWC driver and
my Kernel, however, I interpret this as applying only to web cameras and
therefore not my application. I found nothing about this on the FAQ. I
have searched the mail archives but found nothing directly applicable to
this.

My libraries are:
ffmpeg.i386                 0.4.9-0.lvn.0.20.20050 installed
ffmpeg-devel.i386           0.4.9-0.lvn.0.20.20050 installed

mysql.i386                  3.23.58-16.FC3.1       installed
mysql-devel.i386            3.23.58-16.FC3.1       installed

My motion.conf file is attached.

Any suggestions or assistance you can provide would be most helpful.
Thank you in advance.
-- 
Rob Vance