[Motion-user] Camera and interference causing thread to exit

[Andy B. <an...@th...>]

Hi All,
I've been having a dig around and couldn't find anything that seemed to 
help, can anyone point me in the right direction on how to solve this?

Basically, I've used this video input board for a while (based on the 
Zoran chipset, its a Mirovideo DC-10). I've swapped the input to a cheap 
wireless camera setup, and found I can grab images no problem (using 
videodog), but when using with motion I keep loosing the thread for that 
camera.

What I think is happening is since motion is opening the device in 
streaming mode, each time there is a bit of static, or lost frame or 
corruption (because of the camera being wireless, and affected by light 
switches, microwave, etc).
Is it possible to tell motion to reload the capture device when this 
happens, or force it to somehow reload its descriptor to the device?

This is the output when in debug for this device:

[1] File of type 8 saved to: /var/www/cam/12/27/102544.avi
[1] sync error in proc 312: Timer expired
[1] mcapture error in proc 312: Device or resource busy
[1] Video device fatal error - terminating camera thread
[1] Thread exiting
[1] Somebody stole the video device, lets hope we got his picture: 
Device or resource busy


And at that point I kill the process and start it again. It happens 
again almost immediately however.

Thanks in advance folks :-)

-- 
Andy
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