Unable to connect to Longshine IPCamera LCS-IC-716 with MJPEG or JPEG

Question

I try to connect to an Longshine LCS-IC-716 low budget Network-Camera (IP). The Camera uses Java to show its images, it provides MJPEG Stream on Port 4321 and a non-login-jpeg at "ip/loginfree.jpg".

I tested two ways to get my connection :

-- First - Using the stream with a login/password

i use netcam_url = http://ip:4321 and netcam_userpass = name:pwd

and get nothing useful but :

[0] Motion running in setup mode.
[0] Webcam port 995
[0] Thread 1 is from /etc/motion/motion_kam5.conf
[0] Thread 1 is device: http://10.0.0.3:4321 input -1
[0] Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 6145
[1] Thread started
[1] Camera thread starting...
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.7 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] Error reading first header - re-trying
[1] Error reading first header - re-trying
[1] Error reading first header - re-trying
[1] Error reading first header - re-trying
[1] Error reading first header - re-trying
[1] Failed to read first camera header - giving up for now
[1] Could not fetch initial image from network camera
[1] Motion continues using width and height from config file(s)

-- Second - Taking the "loginfree" imaging every second and check it

In this case i use netcam_url =

and get :

[0] Thread 1 is from /etc/motion/motion_kam5.conf
[0] Thread 1 is device: http://10.0.0.3/loginfree.jpg input -1
[0] Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 6182
[1] Thread started
[1] Camera thread starting...
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.7 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] Error reading first header - re-trying
[1] Error reading first header - re-trying
[1] Error reading first header - re-trying
[1] Error reading first header - re-trying
[1] Error reading first header - re-trying
[1] Failed to read first camera header - giving up for now
[1] Could not fetch initial image from network camera
[1] Motion continues using width and height from config file(s)

I downloaded the JPG using Firefox (no problem, i even can show it by typing ip/loginfree.jpg) and checked the settings of the picture :

width 320, height 240, rgb24, 72dpi and ie 5kb per picture. All reads good - but motion cant get the image.

Anybody got a good idea how to check for further connections to capture my images?

My config is this :

# videodevice = /dev/video0
# input = 8
# norm = 0
# frequency = 0
# rotate = 0
# framerate = 2
# minimum_frame_time = 0
# auto_brightness = off
# brightness = 0
# contrast = 0
# saturation = 0
# hue = 0
# switchfilter = off
# threshold = 500
# threshold_tune = on
# noise_level = 32
# noise_tune = on
# night_compensate = off
# despeckle = EedDl
# smart_mask_speed = 0
# lightswitch = 60
# gap = 30
# output_motion = off
# quality = 95
# ppm = off
# thread = thread /etc/motion/motion_kam5.conf

thread 5

# width = 320
# height = 240
# framerate = 15
# minimum_frame_time = 0
# netcam_url = http://10.0.0.3/loginfree.jpg
# netcam_userpass = nooneshouldknow
# netcam_proxy = (not defined)

Environment

Motion version:	3.2.7
ffmpeg version:
Libraries:	ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql
Server OS:	Debian Etch

-- StefanAgethen - 23 May 2007

Follow up

Motion doens't support MPJEG codec stream yet ( not jpeg push).

That it's in my the TODO list for motion 3.2.9

-- AngelCarpintero - 27 May 2007

Answer

Motion Jpeg support has been added to trunk :

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/LinksysWVC200SupportPatch

-- AngelCarpintero - 16 Jun 2008