Motion Release 3.2.7 - Release Notes

Summary of changes since 3.2.6

Features

• Removed the minimum_gap feature which was utterly useless (Kenneth Lavrsen)
• Added new feature: minimum_frame_time which enables capturing at a lower rate than 2 frames per second (Kenneth Lavrsen and Angel Carpintero)
• Made the creation of reference frame and the decay mechanism depending on how much motion was detected relative to threshold setting (Joerg Weber) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/ReferenceFramePatch
• Added process_id_file feature (Angel Carpintero) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/FeatureRequest2006x06x06x123003

Bugfixes

• Fixed problem related to fetching images from Network camera and error handling when it fails. Motion would end in infinite loops (Bill Brack). http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2006x03x10x000151
• Improved reporting of thread numbers during startup in setup mode. (Peter Smith and Kenneth Lavrsen) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/SlightlyImprovedThreadCreationLogging
• Ffmpeg code mutex locking fix (Peter Smith) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2006x04x07x164654
• Ffmpeg avicodec logging improved (Peter Smith and Kenneth Lavrsen) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/FfmpegAvicodecLogging
• Improved upon a few ambiguous log messages which may be emitted by the Event handling code with regards to Ffmpeg (Peter Smith) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/LoggingEventFix
• Implemented a fix for the rare problem where some experienced that the move file names would only consist of the extension .mpg or .avi with no name in front. The root cause was the use of sprintf for appending to strings. (Mike Kenney and Kenneth Lavrsen) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/SupportQuestion2005x09x05x133031 http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/SupportQuestion2006x06x19x174238
• Altered the risky use of sprintf to snprintf in all places related to use with config strings that can become very long (Kenneth Lavrsen)
• Removed annoying debug messages (v4l_set_input really needed ?) in the FreeBSD version (Angel Carpintero)
• Fixed the check for ffmpeg version. In rev 5503 of ffmpeg the FFMPEG_VERSION_INT was removed from libavcodec/avcodec.h. Instead we now use the equivalent LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD >= 4616 which is the 0.4.9pre1 version of ffmpeg. (Kenneth Lavrsen)
• Fixed segfault when netcam_url has no service ( http , ftp ) (Angel Carpintero)
• Fixed interlace issue with METEOR_GEO_EVEN_ONLY in FreeBSD (Angel Carpintero)
• Fixed possible syntax error in configure related to MySQL (Angel Carpintero)
• Avoid open file descriptor when connecting to network cameras fails (Peter Holik) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/AvoidOpenfiledescriptors
• Fixed http pause feature so that pausing thread 0 now pauses all threads. (Gunnar Skjold) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2006x07x10x111239
• Put a new global mutex arround avcodec_close to avoid problems with not thread safe functions in ffmpeg (Angel Carpintero) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2006x04x07x164654
• On FreeBSD configure defines a redundant freebsd for motion. Fixed by replacing -D__freebsd_ by BSD macro included in sys/param.h for BSD platforms. (Jukka Ukkonen and Angel Carpintero) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2006x07x08x070417
• For BSD platforms changed to using native pthreads as default and adding linuxthreads as a optional parameter from configure. (Angel Carpintero) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2006x07x08x071646
• Smartmask overlay feature did not set intensity correctly. (Kenneth Lavrsen)

Known Problems

• See the http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReports for open bugs.
• The pwc-ioctl.h is for pwc version 9.0.1, 10.0.X. 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

• From Sourceforge: 3.2.7
• See http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/DownloadFiles for an overview of binary packages for RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu etc.

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