Error selecting input 0 VIDIOC_S_INPUT: Device or resource busy and ioctl (VIDIOCGCAP): Invalid argument

Question

Motion was unable to start after performing an upgrade in Ubuntu 11.10 system. Is there any fix for this?

Thanks.

Dec 14 11:12:10 thestudio motion: [1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo"
Dec 14 11:12:10 thestudio motion: [1] cap.card: "Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_2M"
Dec 14 11:12:10 thestudio motion: [1] cap.bus_info: "usb-0000:00:1a.7-6"
Dec 14 11:12:10 thestudio motion: [1] cap.capabilities=0x04000001
Dec 14 11:12:10 thestudio motion: [1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
Dec 14 11:12:10 thestudio motion: [1] - STREAMING
Dec 14 11:12:10 thestudio motion: [1] Error selecting input 0 VIDIOC_S_INPUT: Device or resource busy
Dec 14 11:12:10 thestudio motion: [1] ioctl (VIDIOCGCAP): Invalid argument

Environment

Motion version:	3.2.12
ffmpeg version:	0.7.2
Libraries:	ffmpeg
Server OS:	Ubuntu 11.10, kernel 3.0.0-14-generic

-- MichaelLok - 14 Dec 2011

Follow Up

Michael , did you tried to change the input value in motion.conf ?

Anyway we are going to release motion 3.0 , you can grab from SVN current version that should work better and with many bug fixed.

http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionSubversion

Cheers,

-- AngelCarpintero - 05 Jan 2012

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