Re: [Motion-user] 2 Patches submitted

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

Angel Carpintero wrote:
> El vie, 29-12-2006 a las 14:45 +0000, Andy Brown escribi=C3=B3:
>> Hi All,
>> I've just submitted two patches:
>> RestartOnVideoSourceError
>> http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/RestartOnVideoSourceError
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> I've answered already in Twiki. Anyway the main idea behind this patch
> is to add to motion a Watchdog feature, but it's not simple to do it,
> i.ex if someone stole the video device motion will keep restarting all
> the time so we have to think about disconnecting problems and critical
> situations.

Thanks Angel, Sorry, I wasn't sure if I should post here as well as, or=20
instead of the Twiki entry, please let me know if you prefer=20
mailing-list to discuss or via the Twiki.
I have added a comment onto the Twiki regarding my patch which may give=20
a little more info on what I'm doing and what I'm aiming at.

I agree though that the process will keep restarting rapidly due to=20
video device errors, so yes this does need to be handled more cleanly.

> Anyway thanks for your patch i'm sure some people will use it, but at
> the moment won't be included in motion.=20

I agree, its a stop-gap solution :-)

>> and also I've submitted Bowser Pete's SWF patch:
>> http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/FFmpegSWFcreation
>>
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> Did your test this patch , any issue ?=20
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> my personal opinion is that swf is not a good support to store video,
> but maybe some people could think is great.

I've had the FFmpegSWFcreation patch running now for about 5 days on my=20
motion, and haven't seen any issues at all. I'd argue for the case to=20
have swf creation, because it isn't very different from producing video=20
files, and since its native to ffmpeg I'd argue that motion is simply=20
permitting another option of ffmpeg to be utilised.
Feel free to argue :-) Just my opinion also!

PS: I've used motion for years now, fantastic software guys, thank you=20
to all the people working/developing it.

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Andy
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