From: re2823@Safe-mail.net - 2007-01-09 13:26:18
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Hi. I'm was just about to buy an adaptec avc-2310 "analog-video to mpeg-2" (usb) hardware encoder to use with motion, when I noticed the following text in the Motion Guide (Basic Features): "For the time being Motion cannot connect to a video stream such a mpeg, mpeg4, divx. The URL must return one single jpeg image or an mjpeg stream!". Could anyone please confirm whether this is still true? If so, are there ways to convert the mpeg-2 stream which is delivered by the video encoder (via usb) into an mjpeg stream suitable for input to motion? (If not, I guess that I need to find a hardware encoder that produces mjpeg streams instead of mpeg-2...) Thanks, Jaime |
From: Angel C. <ac...@te...> - 2007-01-09 15:32:45
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El mar, 09-01-2007 a las 13:26 +0000, re2823@Safe-mail.net escribi=C3=B3: > Hi. >=20 > I'm was just about to buy an adaptec avc-2310 "analog-video to mpeg-2" > (usb) hardware encoder to use with motion, when I noticed the following > text in the Motion Guide (Basic Features): >=20 > "For the time being Motion cannot connect to a video stream such a mpeg, > mpeg4, divx. The URL must return one single jpeg image or an mjpeg > stream!". >=20 > Could anyone please confirm whether this is still true? If so, are there > ways to convert the mpeg-2 stream which is delivered by the video encoder > (via usb) into an mjpeg stream suitable for input to motion? Yes that's is true. Motion only accepts V4L ( soon V4L2 ) and jpeg images or multipart/x-mixed-replace jpeg ( notice that is not the same that mjpeg that is a codec) mjpeg in motion means multipart jpegs. > (If not, I guess that I need to find a hardware encoder that produces > mjpeg streams instead of mpeg-2...) There're ways to convert mpeg-2 or other stream to jpegs but if your are capturing from analog device is better to attach that device directly to a capture capture card ( bt84x / bt87x chip based ) and you can capture use V4L/V4L2 that motion can handle. > Thanks, Jaime Cheers, --=20 Angel Carpintero ack ( at ) telefonica ( dot ) net Key fingerprint =3D 3FD3 9C90 149E 7824 CECD 6BCF AC2C CA61 6EF1 B90D "No basta saber, hay que aplicar lo que se sabe;=20 no basta querer hacerlas cosas, hay que hacerlas". "Knowing is not enough; we must apply.=20 Willing is not enough; we must do" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |