Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.19_snap1

Release Notes

3.1.19 snap1 - 09 Feb 2005

Development Release - not recommended for normal use

Changes since 3.1.18

snap1

• Fixed bug which caused Motion 3.1.18 fail to save timelapse mpegs when setting ffmpeg_timelapse = 1 (fixed by Michael Reuschling). http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x01x31x211756
• Fixed several bugs in new netcam code introduced in 3.1.18 (Angel Carpintero). http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x01x16x030209, http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x02x01x071546, http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x02x03x035918
• Added patch that enables Motion to work with vloopback version 0.94 and kernel 2.6.10+. (patch by William M Brack). http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionAndVloopbackVideoDotCPatch

Next Steps

• Closing more bugs

Known Problems

• See the BugReports for open bugs.

• The pwc-ioctl.h is for pwc version 9.0.1 and 10.0.6. If you still use the pwc 8 series then you need to use the headerfile pwc-ioctl.h-pwc8.0 (copy the pwc-ioctl.h-pwc8.0 over pwc-ioctl.h). This is relevant for USB cameras using Philips chips.

Download

• motion-3.1.19_snap1.tar.gz

• netcam patch , to apply the patch follow the intructions explained here

Bug Reports

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I ran this version with the 'motion-3.1.19-netcam.dif'; It still crashed after running for a day or so (I run it as a backgroud process with output redirected to a log file).

Here is the /var/log/messages:

Feb 10 20:18:21 cpe1 motion: Processing thread 0 - config file motion.conf
Feb 10 20:18:21 cpe1 motion: Unknown config option: "adjust_rate"
Feb 10 20:18:21 cpe1 motion: Unknown config option: "jpg_cleanup"
Feb 10 20:18:21 cpe1 motion: Unknown config option: "mpeg_encode"
Feb 10 20:18:21 cpe1 motion: Unknown config option: "output_all_on"
Feb 10 20:18:21 cpe1 motion: Unknown config option: "sql_log_timelapse"
Feb 10 20:18:21 cpe1 motion: Processing thread 1 - config file /usr/config/camera1.properties
Feb 10 20:18:21 cpe1 motion: Processing thread 2 - config file /usr/config/camera2.properties
Feb 10 20:18:21 cpe1 motion: Processing thread 3 - config file /usr/config/camera3.properties
Feb 10 20:18:21 cpe1 motion: Netcam: thread 1: starting...
Feb 10 20:18:21 cpe1 motion: Netcam: thread 2: starting...
Feb 10 20:18:21 cpe1 motion: Netcam: thread 3: starting...
Feb 10 20:24:29 cpe1 sshd(pam_unix)[25066]: session closed for user bruce
Feb 11 11:58:29 cpe1 motion: Netcam: thread 3: error reading image, not complete
Feb 11 11:58:29 cpe1 motion: Netcam: thread 3: error frame [1]
Feb 11 11:59:02 cpe1 motion: Netcam: thread 3: error reading image, not complete
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Feb 12 10:10:48 cpe1 motion: Netcam: thread 3: error frame [19]

Here is the motion output log file:

File of type 1 saved to: /image1/cam2/2005/02/12/10/09/00-00.jpg
Closing devices ...
Closing devices ...
Netcam: thread 3: error reading image, not complete
Netcam: thread 3: error frame [16]
Thread Condiction timeout
Thread Condiction timeout
Thread Condiction timeout
Netcam: thread 3: error reading image, not complete
Netcam: thread 3: error frame [17]
Thread Condiction timeout
Thread Condiction timeout
Netcam: thread 3: error reading image, not complete
Netcam: thread 3: error frame [18]
Closing devices ...
Closing devices ...
Closing devices ...
Closing devices ...
Closing devices ...
Closing devices ...
Closing devices ...
Closing devices ...
Netcam: thread 3: error reading image, not complete
Netcam: thread 3: error frame [19]
Netcam netcam_next(): thread 3: Image size 0

-- BruceDurham - 12 Feb 2005

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-- KennethLavrsen - 09 Feb 2005