Motion Release 3.2.8 - Release Notes

Summary of changes since 3.2.7

• Added connection status for all devices available from http web interface. (Angel Carpintero). http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/FeatureRequest2006x11x09x050638
• Improved deb packaging, install the init.d script. (Angel Carpintero).
• Added swf codec to video creation (Bowser Pete, Andy Brown). http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/FFmpegSWFcreation
• Added V4L2 support (Krzysztof Blaszkowski, Angel Carpintero). http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/VideoForLinuxTwoDiscussion,
• Added support for V4L2_PIX_FMT_SBGGR8 ( bayer ), V4L2_PIX_FMT_SN9C10X, V4L2_PIX_FMT_MJPEG and V4L2_PIX_FMT_UYVY (Angel Carpintero).
• ucvideo track pan/tilt support ( Michal Licko ,Dirk Wesenberg and Angel Carpintero ) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/LinuxUvcTrackingPatch
• Added a FreeBSD directory to allow people from BSD to get a daily version and create a port. (Angel Carpintero).
• Removed mysql dependency from debian package and added a note to setup motion to run as daemon to create the pid file. (Angel Carpintero).
• Changed the way configure search mysql headers and libs, added 3 parameters to configure --without-mysql to disable support, --with-mysql-include directory of mysql.h and --with-mysql-lib directory of libmysqlclient.a or libmysqlclient.so (Angel Carpintero).
• Added MYSQL_OPT_RECONNECT flag for mysql connection (MYSQL 5.x only) and changed default value for mysql_host (Angel Carpintero).

• Removed a duplicate call to jpeg_destroy_decompress already is called from netcam_image_conv (Krzysztof Blaszkowski).
• Fix http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2006x10x10x081903, reconnet to mysql if connection dropped (Angel Carpintero).
• Fix memory management in ffmpeg.c (Rafis Khayrullin). http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2006x12x19x062432
• Fix of ffmpeg_avcodec_log code (Alain Guidez). http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2007x03x25x074612
• Fix a segfault adding correct size to be used for bayer2rgb24() (Damian Wrobel) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2007x03x30x175913
• Fix an error in FreeBSD, the use of capture even fields depends on height value. (Angel Carpintero) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2006x12x03x073610
• Fixed autodetection for VIA cpu, no needed to use --without-optimizecpu. Added many others (Angel Carpintero)
• Fix, don't remove pid file when motion reload config file( HUP signal ) (Angel Carpintero).
• Fix compilation broken by uvc track type. (Angel Carpintero).
• Fixed the thread number assignment which could goof up if netcams started very quickly before all thread were created at startup. (Kenneth Lavrsen)
• Fix RoundRobin v4l2 buffers in driver when switching input, http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2007x07x07x182605 (Dag Erlandsson and Angel Carpintero).
• Check EIO for VIDIOC_DQBUF to workaround saa7134 problem. (Dag Erlandsson and Angel Carpintero).
• Change bayer2rgb24() to fix a problem with sn9c102 driver http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2007x06x05x012249 (Jared D and Angel Carpintero).

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: 3.2.8
• 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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