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[Motion-user] motion not creating videos

[gnat <gna...@gm...>]

Hello,
	I'm a new motion user that is having some issues.

	I'm working on a Mac running 10.5.5 that I had some issues getting  
motion 3.2.11 to compile. I'm using a TRENDnet TV-IP100W-N over WiFi  
as my camera source.

	The usage problem is that it is only grabbing 2 - 3 images a second  
for the stills and does not generate a movie after the event is  
complete. I've been testing in non-daemon mode with no messages that  
indicate a problem (just the image creation messages).

	The camera reports that it is running at 20 frames a second.

	The build issues I had (in case they are relevant) were:

	1) I had to export LIBS with my (MacPorts) lib directory for it to  
find ffmpeg even though I supplied the configure option for it.
	2) It reports that I don't have pthreads even though I do (looking at  
configure, it appears to recognize that I do, but does not set the  
proper variables for later).
	3) I had to comment out the BSD version of the setpgrp() call and to  
use setpgrp() with no arguments.

	My conf file looks like:
daemon off
process_id_file /tmp/motion.pid
setup_mode off
videodevice /dev/bktr0
v4l2_palette 8
input 0
norm 0
frequency 0
rotate 0
width 640
height 480
framerate 30
minimum_frame_time 0
netcam_url http://192.168.3.210/VIDEO.CGI
netcam_http 1.1
netcam_tolerant_check off
auto_brightness off
brightness 0
contrast 0
saturation 0
hue 0
roundrobin_frames 1
roundrobin_skip 1
switchfilter off
threshold 1500
threshold_tune off
noise_level 32
noise_tune on
smart_mask_speed 0
lightswitch 0
minimum_motion_frames 15
pre_capture 3
post_capture 30
gap 15
max_mpeg_time 3600
output_all off
output_normal on
output_motion off
quality 75
ppm off
ffmpeg_cap_new off
ffmpeg_cap_motion off
ffmpeg_timelapse 0
ffmpeg_timelapse_mode daily
ffmpeg_bps 400000
ffmpeg_variable_bitrate 0
ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4
ffmpeg_deinterlace off
snapshot_interval 0
locate off
text_right %Y-%m-%d\n%T
text_left Camera 1
text_changes off
text_event %Y%m%d%H%M%S
text_double off
target_dir /Users/DaveWhittle/Sites/camera1
snapshot_filename %v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S-snapshot
jpeg_filename images/%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S-%q
movie_filename movies/%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S
timelapse_filename %Y%m%d-timelapse
webcam_port 8081
webcam_quality 50
webcam_motion off
webcam_maxrate 1
webcam_localhost on
webcam_limit 0
control_port 8080
control_localhost on
control_html_output on
track_type 0
track_auto off
track_motorx 0
track_motory 0
track_maxx 0
track_maxy 0
track_iomojo_id 0
track_step_angle_x 10
track_step_angle_y 10
track_move_wait 10
track_speed 255
track_stepsize 40
quiet on

	If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
-dave

Re: [Motion-user] motion not creating videos

[Alberto G. <sub...@tr...>]

El Wednesday 12 November 2008 04:46:48 gnat escribió:

Hi Gnat
set to ON the option "ffmpeg_cap_new off"
and testing differents codecs on "ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4"

Cheers
> Hello,
> 	I'm a new motion user that is having some issues.
>
> 	I'm working on a Mac running 10.5.5 that I had some issues getting
> motion 3.2.11 to compile. I'm using a TRENDnet TV-IP100W-N over WiFi
> as my camera source.
>
> 	The usage problem is that it is only grabbing 2 - 3 images a second
> for the stills and does not generate a movie after the event is
> complete. I've been testing in non-daemon mode with no messages that
> indicate a problem (just the image creation messages).
>
> 	The camera reports that it is running at 20 frames a second.
>
> 	The build issues I had (in case they are relevant) were:
>
> 	1) I had to export LIBS with my (MacPorts) lib directory for it to
> find ffmpeg even though I supplied the configure option for it.
> 	2) It reports that I don't have pthreads even though I do (looking at
> configure, it appears to recognize that I do, but does not set the
> proper variables for later).
> 	3) I had to comment out the BSD version of the setpgrp() call and to
> use setpgrp() with no arguments.
>
> 	My conf file looks like:
> daemon off
> process_id_file /tmp/motion.pid
> setup_mode off
> videodevice /dev/bktr0
> v4l2_palette 8
> input 0
> norm 0
> frequency 0
> rotate 0
> width 640
> height 480
> framerate 30
> minimum_frame_time 0
> netcam_url http://192.168.3.210/VIDEO.CGI
> netcam_http 1.1
> netcam_tolerant_check off
> auto_brightness off
> brightness 0
> contrast 0
> saturation 0
> hue 0
> roundrobin_frames 1
> roundrobin_skip 1
> switchfilter off
> threshold 1500
> threshold_tune off
> noise_level 32
> noise_tune on
> smart_mask_speed 0
> lightswitch 0
> minimum_motion_frames 15
> pre_capture 3
> post_capture 30
> gap 15
> max_mpeg_time 3600
> output_all off
> output_normal on
> output_motion off
> quality 75
> ppm off
> ffmpeg_cap_new off
> ffmpeg_cap_motion off
> ffmpeg_timelapse 0
> ffmpeg_timelapse_mode daily
> ffmpeg_bps 400000
> ffmpeg_variable_bitrate 0
> ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4
> ffmpeg_deinterlace off
> snapshot_interval 0
> locate off
> text_right %Y-%m-%d\n%T
> text_left Camera 1
> text_changes off
> text_event %Y%m%d%H%M%S
> text_double off
> target_dir /Users/DaveWhittle/Sites/camera1
> snapshot_filename %v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S-snapshot
> jpeg_filename images/%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S-%q
> movie_filename movies/%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S
> timelapse_filename %Y%m%d-timelapse
> webcam_port 8081
> webcam_quality 50
> webcam_motion off
> webcam_maxrate 1
> webcam_localhost on
> webcam_limit 0
> control_port 8080
> control_localhost on
> control_html_output on
> track_type 0
> track_auto off
> track_motorx 0
> track_motory 0
> track_maxx 0
> track_maxy 0
> track_iomojo_id 0
> track_step_angle_x 10
> track_step_angle_y 10
> track_move_wait 10
> track_speed 255
> track_stepsize 40
> quiet on
>
> 	If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> -dave
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Re: [Motion-user] motion not creating videos

[gnat <gna...@gm...>]

On Nov 12, 2008, at 2:06 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote:

> El Wednesday 12 November 2008 04:46:48 gnat escribió:
>
> set to ON the option "ffmpeg_cap_new off"
> and testing differents codecs on "ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4"

Thanks for the pointer that did it and using "mov" for the codec  
appears to work well.

Thanks,
-dave

Re: [Motion-user] motion not creating videos

[Angel C. <ac...@te...>]

El mar, 11-11-2008 a las 22:46 -0500, gnat escribió: 
> Hello,

Hi Dave,

> 	I'm a new motion user that is having some issues.
> 
> 	I'm working on a Mac running 10.5.5 that I had some issues getting  
> motion 3.2.11 to compile. I'm using a TRENDnet TV-IP100W-N over WiFi  
> as my camera source.

First at all i doubt that port of MacOsX will work properly as it not
maintained because no one sent any feedback since long long time ago.

Twiki topics :

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MacOSX

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MacOSXPatch



> 	The usage problem is that it is only grabbing 2 - 3 images a second  
> for the stills and does not generate a movie after the event is  
> complete. I've been testing in non-daemon mode with no messages that  
> indicate a problem (just the image creation messages).

2-3 frames per second ?! looks that it's a big problem , i tried from
BSD with 10fps 640x480 with default setting.

Notice that you can set max framerate using framerate , but not width /
height for network cameras , so check what is the image size for the
netcam_url you set.

> 
> 	The camera reports that it is running at 20 frames a second.

You can check this using a wget in example , but it's not the same get a
stream at 20 fps than get and process it.

> 
> 	The build issues I had (in case they are relevant) were:
> 
> 	1) I had to export LIBS with my (MacPorts) lib directory for it to  
> find ffmpeg even though I supplied the configure option for it.
> 	2) It reports that I don't have pthreads even though I do (looking at  
> configure, it appears to recognize that I do, but does not set the  
> proper variables for later).
> 	3) I had to comment out the BSD version of the setpgrp() call and to  
> use setpgrp() with no arguments.

You can add a formal patch and include in MacOSX Twiki topics. 

[snip config]

> 	If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate it.

Probably motion is not working fine and need more work before starting
figure out what the problem in config file.

> Thanks,
> -dave

Cheers,
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Re: [Motion-user] motion not creating videos

[gnat <gna...@gm...>]

On Nov 12, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Angel Carpintero wrote:

> First at all i doubt that port of MacOsX will work properly as it not
> maintained because no one sent any feedback since long long time ago.

Angel,
	I didn't use a port for motion, i'm just using the main source line.

> Twiki topics :

	I looked at those and didn't find them helpful for the issue I was  
having, so I went back to the pure source.

> 2-3 frames per second ?! looks that it's a big problem , i tried from
> BSD with 10fps 640x480 with default setting.
>
> Notice that you can set max framerate using framerate , but not  
> width /
> height for network cameras , so check what is the image size for the
> netcam_url you set.

	It just seems to be motion for the still images. Now that I am  
getting videos, they appear to be getting a good framerate. Now that I  
have the video working, I just turned the images off since I don't  
really want them anyway for my application.

> You can add a formal patch and include in MacOSX Twiki topics.

	I'll look into it, but i've never mastered the multi-person  
development techniques like patching ;)

Thanks,
-dave