A Link IPC1 A LINK 54 MBPS WLAN IP CAMERA Camera info http://www.a link.com/IPC1.html 82 Eur IP camera bought from http://www.multitronic.fi/?prod IPC1 netcam ...
Acer Orbicam bison ( 5986:0100 ) This webcam is embedded in some Acer laptops , tested with uvcvideo svn r117 and motion 3.2.8 AngelCarpintero 22 Jul 2007
Advanced Filenames Motion has a very advanced and flexible automated filenaming feature. By using conversion specifiers (codes that consist of a '%' followed by ...
Affiliated Business In the interest of users of Motion the project accepts arrangements with affiliated businesses that allows a business to offer discounts on their ...
AirLink SkyIPCam500W Wireless Night Vision Network Camera http://www.airlink101.com/products/aicn500w.php Airlink101 AIC250W Wireless Camera For the most part (again ...
alg diff standard MMX patch Introduction This patch contains MMX assembler addition to the alg diff standard function. The benefit is a major speed improvement ...
Area Detect Feature Description of Patch This patch adds the ability to detect motion in predefined areas and execute an event immediately upon detection. The event ...
Assigned Bug To Name of person the bug resolution is assigned to. Use TWiki Name. e.g. nop Main.KennethLavrsen If the bug resolution is being done by a specific person ...
Who is in charge to find more information on the Question, for AssignedQuestions. His duty is to then change the Question status to either: AnsweredQuestions ...
GCC Optimizations for Intel Atom CPU Description of Patch This patch includes optimization for Intel Atom CPU " march core2 mfpmath sse mssse3 mmmx" into configure ...
Prevent auto brightness changes from triggering brightness oscillations Description of Patch This patch changes the auto brightness algorithm to avoid making further ...
Aviosys IP9100A 4 port video capture unit (Ethernet) The only 4 port "net camera" I am aware of, but beware it does not give high fps. It is however quite cheap. There ...
Avoid Cleanup Segfault Introduction There're some variable that are not allocated so when motion exits the cleanup process segfaults , also it's not safe to change ...
Avoid open filedescriptors in netcam Description of Patch In motion.c / MOTION LOOP RETRY INITIALIZING NETCAM SECTION / netcam cleanup is called if a ...
Axis 2100, 210 series net cameras (and quite possibly most Axis models) .. work very well with motion. Use this link in your motion.conf: Axis 210: netcam url ...
Batch control of motion Introduction What does it do? I've written a small bash script for those who want to control motion by batch or cron and for instance stop ...
BestPreviewShot Patch Introduction Major improvement of the preview shots feature (output normal first). You can now select to save the best picture of an event ...
enhanced ffmpeg detection Description of Patch This patch tries to enhance the detection of ffmpeg libraries and headers in configure.in . Installation of Patch ...
Bluecherry /bluecherry.jpg Website http://www.bluecherry.net Curtis Hall has kindly offered 15% to users of Motion (and Zoneminder) on video capture cards. To obtain ...
BluetoothMotion Introduction Start and stop motion based on the presence or absence of a bluetooth mobile phone. Detailed Description It requires you to have a ...
Patch Title Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue Introduction This patch allows motion to set the brightness, contrast, saturation and hue for a video source. Description ...
Upgrade to 3.2.11.1 ( bugfixes ) Description of Patch Bugfixes for motion 3.2.11 , some backported from svn trunk and other from debian , suse and contributors. ...
BUG: Added by Kenneth Lavrsen on behalf of MikeLees. I think I have spotted a minor bug with config file save if I set text left to have leading spaces via XML ...
BUG: I have trouble capturing ffmpeg movie 640x480 @ 25fps. I have bt878 card (Hauppauge WinTV? Express), AMD 2000 processor and 512MB of memory. I'm using Linux ...
BUG: I'm still getting a lot of zombie processes from onsave and onmpeg when I run motion 3.1.17 in daemon ( D) mode. Here are a few examples from my 'ps ef' bruce ...
BUG: looks like this on FreeBSD 4.10 STABLE after motion has been running for ~32 hours 77096 root /usr/local/bin/motion \ 77097 root /usr/local/bin ...
BUG: When running motion as daemon, I am getting application bug warnings emitted from SYSLOG an Redhat AS 3. The error is as follows. Oct 26 08:43:43 localhost ...
BUG: My quickcam orbit didn't correctly move the camera towards a moving object. This seems to be caused by the fact that the y axis is inverted. The camera Y axis ...
BUG: great job you´re doing here. respect! though i have problems w/ my installation. system: SUSE Linux 2.6.9 #3 Sun Nov 14 17:17:40 CET 2004 x86 64 x86 64 x86 ...
BUG: motion contrl info cause a crash of motion. This occurs in the version 3.1.18 snap 7 In the version 3.1.17 the problem did not occurs. In the version 3.1.17 ...
BUG: It s a little bit strange "motion control conf list" on the localhost but not on a remote host. the error produced is: XML RPC Fault: no element found ( 503 ...
BUG: This program runs well straight from the debian package with the given config file. However, when I add the command "rotate 180" in the config file, motion segfault ...
BUG: When compiling with ffmpeg support on a basic fedora core 3 system I end up with the following error: gcc I/usr/include/ffmpeg g O2 DHAVE CURL DHAVE FFMPEG ...
BUG: The file motion guide.html contains picture with a link to the motion web site. In this case to see the pictures if is necessary to have an internet connection ...
BUG: The end of output of motion h says Will read motion.conf from current directory, ~ and /opt/motion/motion 3.1.17/etc. Where "~" should apparently actually read ...
BUG: If I set the target dir configuration variable to a value where there is no write permissions, motion simply exits with a "Thread exiting" message when it attempts ...
BUG: When mencoder (of the Mplayer package) is encoding and the user presses ^C, mencoder completes the file gracefully and exits only then, thus leaving behind a ...
BUG: The configuration is working with motion version 3.1.17 but the crash occurs in the version 3.1.18. The behaviour of motion is a little bit strange: if a set ...
BUG: Calling motion with a netcam I get a segmentation fault. In the standard motion.conf I only put a ";" in front of the "videodevice" And "tunerdevice" and add ...
BUG: My Labtec (HDCS 1020) camera is mounted upside down. Using rotate 180 gives some sort of interleaved corruption of the image. I have to use an external script ...
BUG: The streaming netcam feature used with a Panasonic KX HCM280 produces errors and terminates motion. Security is enabled on the camera. netcam userpass motion ...
BUG: From IRC #Motion 23 Jan 2005 13:53 I am (happily!) using motion 3.1.17. the timelapse mpegs sometimes do not rotate at midnight each day, but keep going ...
BUG: In the documentation for the gap setting, it indicates that the timer for gap is supposed to start after the post capture has finished its last frame, but this ...
BUG: Starting motion 3.1.18 it writes out Thread0 device: /dev/video0 input: 8 Illegal instruction and steps out. Test case EPIA 5000 mainboard, spca50x camera driver ...
BUG: Someone kindly reported that Motion 3.1.18 fails to save timelapse mpegs when setting ffmpeg timelapse 1. Test case Set ffmpeg timelapse 1 and no mpeg is ...
BUG: When you start Motion and have a netcam even with single jpegs Motion often stops right away. Test case I have used your URL and I can for sure say that ...
BUG: I run motion with multiple network cameras. At startup, if one of my cameras refuses a network connection then motion quits. This behavior is not good for an ...
BUG: i get this error during configure "configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (short int),77" it was reported in snap8 but the solution put ther (installing libidn ...
BUG: Building an RPM from the makefile included with the source fails to use the DESTDIR environment variable. This results in modifications to the primary file ...
BUG: %makeinstall section of motion.spec (line 33) included with source attempts to mv motion dist.conf from %{ sysconfdir} directory to %{ sysconfdir}/%{name} directory ...
BUG: i have a recording which stopped in the middle of motion. nothing in the messages file. but the sequence is clearly truncated. the config is set for 5 pre ...
BUG: When i run Motion with 2 NetCams, one Cam ist stopping after a short time. My NetCam from Thread1 is a D Link dcs 900, the Cam for Thread2 is an Axis 205. Both ...
BUG: motion has been running fine. got a segmentation fault this am. discovered it some hours later. re ran motion. almost instant seg fault. and again, similarly ...
BUG: Suse have not provided much in their personal CD not geven gcc! As a result motion will not compile once gcc and ffmpeg (either 0.4.8 or 0.4.9.1pre1) is installed ...
BUG: To reduce the bandwidth consumed while monitoring my cam using motion's mini http server, I tried setting webcam maxrate 0.1 in the config file. As soon as I ...
BUG: I am using a P2 450 running kernel 2.6.5 on a smp machine. The capture card is a generic Videologic card using the Brooktree 848 capture chip and a single b ...
Bug: This was originally raised as a support question but after BugReport2005x03x30x011107 was resolved I am 99% sure it will also have resolved this one because ...
BUG: I can't set a track/set with a value higher then 9 and a negative value. I use a Logitech Sphere with pwc version 10.0.6 /2/track/set?pan 20 tilt 20 also doesn ...
BUG: /tmp is growing since the use of tmpfile. Test case using motion with some netcam (axis) with threads. Environment Motion version: 3.1.19 snap4 ...
BUG: my configure was as follows: ./configure without pgsql However when I try to run motion, I get. motion: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.3: cannot ...
BUG: I can run motion with 4 network cameras on 3.1.17 with no problems (other than a buildup defunct processes). My camera models are the Panasonic KX HCM280 Panasonic ...
BUG: while working with onmpeg parameter, I have found that some file descriptors were leak to sub process. It can have several effects: a good subprocess can ...
BUG: BugReport2005x01x30x190907 did not fix the compilation issue on certain VIA processors. When compiling for VIA Samuel 2, Ezra, Ezra T architectures the correct ...
BUG: Reported by KennethLavrsen for Philip Marien I've come across a problem, and I'm not sure it qualifies as a bug, patch or whatever... Here it goes: if I compile ...
BUG: I have (up to 5) Firewire cameras driving 5 vloopback devices into Motion. My program that drives the Firewire cameras converts all frames to rgb24 format. ...
BUG: When curl was ditched, so was the support for proxies. I can no longer connect to netcams outside my intranet! Test case Environment Motion version: ...
BUG: Motion 3.2.1 memory leaks mejorly when restarted through http control. Test case Start motion Run top Connect to the control port with a browser ...
BUG: nop Main.KennethLavrsen has entered this bug on behalf of WillCooke because the bug is so nasty that it is worth having proper traceability on. Originally ...
BUG: As described at http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/afontes/archive/2004/10/15/28726.aspx motion headers cause HTTP protocol violation when using NET The issue The ...
BUG: HTTP Protocol not compatible some clients like pclient (palantir) can't read header i changed the code, it's on http://www.roberto.spadim.com.br/webcam.c now ...
BUG: mmap may not be working, or working wrong the fps is too loo, 10 fps using the palantir server i can get 30 fps Test case Environment Motion version ...
BUG: This is a megapixel lumenera camera. When connecting to the mjpeg stream, motion says: unknown Content Type It looks like this to me. I don't know if there ...
BUG: when i changed height 288, width 352 to height 360, width 440 ( 1.25) i get a green screen in webcam server i'm using round robin (4 threads channel: 0,1,2 ...
BUG: if you set first thread to 640x480 and second to 320x240 server don't works and crash with glibc detected free(): invalid pointer: 0xb4658008 device ...
BUG: Posted by KennethLavrsen from mailing list posting from ChristopheGRENIER Sometimes motion try to free an invalid memory area for (j 0; config params j .param ...
BUG: Jeff A. Volckaert reported on the Motion mailing list To: Subject: Motion user mpeg4 @ 0x377a10 only YUV420 is supported I have a fresh install of snap 17 ...
BUG: When running with 3 netcams, there are 7 threads/processus, main and 2 threads per netcam (1 3 2 7, no http control, no webcam). When hitting Ctrl C, most of ...
BUG: BUG: Motion will not run with ffmpeg 0.4.9pre1 CVS builds from at least 20050517 and on. The ffmpeg guys have changed the API again on the CVS version of ffmpeg ...
BUG: I have my camera pointed at a busy street. I am seeing motion pictures posted in reverse order. For example, car enters scene is 02 20050714095026 00.jpg, car ...
BUG: Bug BugReport2005x02x11x170019 included a patch to resolve the issue. This was included in motion 3.1.19 snap2. It appears this bug was reintroduced with the ...
BUG: Motion Restart Mon Aug 1 09:14:33 EDT 2005 Motion running as daemon process Thread 1 is from thread1.conf Thread 2 is from thread2.conf Thread 1 started Thread ...
BUG: From email on mailing list from Bill Maidment ./configure and ./configure with mysql /usr/lib64 and ./configure with mysql /usr/lib64/mysql all give me: checking ...
BUG: With this version, motion can no longer find my ffmpeg shared object libavformat.so Test case 1. Ensure that ffmpeg is not installed in the standard directory ...
BUG: I have motion 3.2.2 snap9. The bug seems to happen when motion is killed, and what seems to happen is that motion will create a duplicate of the last image saved ...
BUG: So the ffmpeg guys have AGAIN change the API email from ML When I try and compile Motion I get the following errors: ffmpeg.c:315: error: request for member ...
BUG: When generating msmpeg4 movies with motion the ffmpeg code produces this msmpeg4v2 @ 0xb44350 warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to 127..127 msmpeg4v2 ...
BUG: It seems that the text added is detected as motion. I have set in motion.conf: locate off text right "%Y %m %d\n%T %q %v" text changes on I first noticed it ...
BUG: after changing to 3.2.2 i noticed that motion simply stops working when i enable the netcam no error messages or any other hints the netcam is a wcs2003 from ...
BUG: I'm trying to uso motion outdoor with a Creative NX Ultra webcam. I've activated autobrightness but the image can't reach a stable state and oscillates between ...
BUG: LDFLAGS is always lost when using configure. i.e. line 2721,2856,3145,5439 reliably take care you loose all the LDFLAGS from the environment, CFLAGS has similiar ...
BUG: The motion netcam code is pretty good at recovering from errors, but it appears to be designed to quit all threads if there are problems retrieving images from ...
BUG: My motion silently quit today running in debug mode, I finally found out why: 1 Started stream webcam server in port 8081 1 File of type 32 saved to ...
BUG: Many have reported that the switchfilter option disables the motion detection completely Test case Activate feature and try and detect motion Environment ...
BUG: Having a mask file of i.e. 640 480 and changing the catpture size to any different size causes the according thread to segv when trying to load the image. Test ...
BUG: I am running Motion 3.2.3 on an x86 64 Gentoo machine: Linux version 2.6.13 rc5 mm1 (root@localhost) (gcc version 4.0.1 (Gentoo 4.0.1, pie 8.7.8)) #11 Wed Sep ...
BUG: Hi Kenneth, I have a memory problem with Motion (both versions motion 3.2.1 motion 3.2.3) When I start it it uses about 8k of memory but after 10 hours of ...
BUG: I have a script processing saved images and using the SECURITY SQL table as a queue. Once in a while , the images on disk are inconsistent (e.g. have 0 filesize ...
BUG: When building motion 3.2.4 snap4 and motion 3.2.3 I encounter errors during the make on FC4, it happens when linksing motion. Any Ideas? Test case ... ...
BUG: As reported on the mailing list by Joe the on xxxx commands can again cause Zombie processes. The problem was not there in Motion 3.2.2 snap8 and was reintroduced ...
BUG: im running motion on kernel 2.4 debian box. the old version worked ok. with the new version the webcam interface disappears after 24 48 hours usually after my ...
BUG: Motion compiled from sources 3.2.3 along with ffmpeg devel 0.4.9 0.lvn.0.18.20050801.3 ffmpeg 0.4.9 0.lvn.0.18.20050801.3 causes it to Seg Fault when motion ...
BUG: Getting a segfault after a time using Motion 3.2.4 snap 5 accessing a new Axis 206M Megapixel webcam, pic size is 1280x1024. Standard RH AS kernel version 2 ...
BUG: I did a database at mySQL. I did the configurations at motion.conf to login mySQL and open that database. But what tables i need to creat inside that database ...
BUG: Running Motion 3.2.4 with a single camera, an Axis 206M, with its maximum view size of 1280x1024. I think this is a reincarnation of my older, rejected bug do ...
BUG: When using pan/tilt on web control port (directly or via control204pt.php script) motion crashes with no output generated Test case 3.2.4 1 installed from RPM ...
BUG: The pan tilt command is broken: If you set the pan value to other than 0, the camera pans but tilt value is ignored. If you specify tilt before pan, ie tilt ...
BUG: sql mask is not initialisated correctly , so first event is not logged in mysql because sql mask is always 0 at first event call. Test case Using last daily ...
BUG: i now this is contrary or another but report recently made but when running motion in the forgound I got error messages from free() when I turned on debugging ...
BUG: I use a BT878 Card with 4 Composite. The Card is running and i can use every channel in motion.conf. If i use thread1.conf and thread2.conf for two Cameras, ...
BUG: I have 6 DCS 900 network cameras. Several times per day, a few of them (not all at the same time) decide to return a completely black image (unknown why, camera ...
BUG: If you do a kill TERM on motion, it won't exit until it has reconnected to all cameras first. This is a logic error since you don't want to have to wait until ...
BUG: I have six network cameras (DCS 900) and a cron job that will pause or start certain cameras based upon time/day. There are certain periods of time when all ...
BUG: I have six network cameras (DCS 900) with the snapshot interval set to 60 seconds. That should therefore be 360 snapshots per hour. Motion fails to take a snapshot ...
BUG: i can't determine, if my problem is not related to a particular cam, but here it goes. if i turn the auto brightness on, it adjusts the brightness to the light ...
BUG: when get diskfull and motion try to save image os mpeg motion crash and exit without messages, maybe insert syslog messages and stop write, when diskspace get ...
BUG: Hi! I work with motion 3.2.3. According to the motion guide, the option %f specifies the full path name. Unfortunately, it does not replace it but only uses ...
BUG: See support question SupportQuestion2006x02x24x095024 webcam localhost setting in config file is ignored. Seen to be set to "off" in web interface even when ...
BUG: Recently, i posted bug that threads crash one after the other. I have resolved the problem by running separaly motion instance for each camera without any problem ...
BUG: hi, i use slackware 10.2 and when trying to compile with the make command i got this: Compiling Motion object files... gcc g O2 DWITHOUT V4L DHAVE MYSQL ...
BUG: Hey I have got a problem resulting in "Video signal lost Adding grey image" I have always noticed a single entry in my log now and then saying "Error reading ...
BUG: I tried your 3.2.5.1 and still have problem of the timing of the snapshots. Comparing the "fix" you inserted to motion.c with the "proposed" fix I gave in original ...
BUG: I havent't modified a single element of my system in the last hours days(updated the wxwidget two days ago) and running motion for 11 days straight uninterrupted ...
BUG: Having both noise level and noise tune set, motion will not try to record jpeg images to disk. Test case Following settings are used as an example. noise tune ...
BUG: After an undetermined amount of time, roughly 1 hour up to 48 hours, one or more camera threads will suddenly stop functioning. The "webcam port" will stop ...
BUG: When creating a movie, "target dir" and "movie filename" are ignored, resulting in a mpeg file named: "/.avi" when running as root. Jpeg images follow the ...
BUG: Filed by Kenneth Lavrsen for Dick Middleton I run a couple of network cameras which I switch off at night. Every 10s or so I get messages like this in syslog ...
BUG: I am using 2 cameras connected to 1 Video Capture Device with 4 inputs (/dev/video0). I have 2 thread.conf files and 1 motion.conf. They are configured correct ...
BUG: Hello I'm using motion 3.2.6 with an Axis 240Q video server and 4 analog cameras over a Wireless link. Everything seems to work fine, but after some hours (it ...
BUG: I've also observed that autobrightness blinks. But when autobrightness is off and I change bright, saturation or hue, screen goes white too. Then, if I change ...
BUG: Using motion with a Creative Video Blaster WebCam II on parport (cpia driver) takes 50/90% of cpu on smp bi 1.6GHz. Same config works fine with qc usb driver ...
BUG: The streaming netcam feature used with a Raytalk RTAV700 produces errors. Its JPEG URL is: http://cameraip/cgi bin/video.jpg and it works. At startup it works ...
BUG: starting the program I get the following error: ./motion c ~/motion.conf 0 Processing thread 0 config file /home/z lmutt/motion.conf 0 Unknown config ...
BUG: I have problem with larger resolution with my TV @nywhere TV card. When I set resolution 320x240 everything is OK. But with resolution for example 640x480 it ...
BUG: Camera (Logitech Communicate STX) is working with Camorama, but motion shows a black picture Paste in your error messages, config settings, terminal window output ...
BUG: On FreeBSD the compiler defines by default FreeBSD . Defining freebsd separately in configure is redundant and bad style. If you need to know the OS version ...
BUG: The linuxthreads package is not usually installed on FreeBSD. There is no reason why it should be. FreeBSD 6.1 has two native implementations of POSIX threads ...
BUG: When connecting to control via http, thread 0 is called "All Threads", but when pausing detection on thread 0, it is still active on all the child threads. Paste ...
BUG: I am testing out motion 3.2.6 and I have encountered the following errors. On changing the width and height settings from 352 and 288 respectively to 640 and ...
BUG: Hello, I have a Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX, I have an Ubuntu 6.06. Motion will not start if I type it's name in a terminal, nothing has been recorded ...
BUG: floating point error Motion is dead after some changes of width and height parameters by my PHP application. Now server can't restart, there is a floating point ...
BUG: I've followed the recommendations of the Bug report and the fix, and my netcam capture is working much,much better (it can run for days), but still when it does ...
BUG: If MySQL has a connection to a server and the server becomes unavaiable, it doesnt reconnect when the server is up again. Motion is still running, but nothing ...
BUG: I already install ver 3.2.6 on Debian, all the function for Http API is working, but when I press makemovie, it cannot start to capture the movie, how to slove ...
BUG: This is mainly not a motion related bug, but dl from the one and only mirror university Kent UK isn't working: timeout. Why aren't there any other mirrors currently ...
BUG: While trying to run Motion on Genius VideoCam NB (sn9c102 chip) Motion suddenly quits rigth after start. The same Genius VideoCam NB works well with Sonic snap ...
BUG: Once the timelapse time starts over, the new compiled filename incidentially gets a double suffix like "timelaps.mpg.mpg". I have 4 cams, and it occurs only ...
BUG: Motion 3.2.7 corrupts captured images on FreeBSD. Only about 20% of the actual PAL image area at the top of the image is used. The rest of the image area is ...
BUG: Since I have changed some config in my wireless setting, my IPcam (Dlink 2100 ) sometimes disconnect and reconnect to the wireless network. Motion detects the ...
BUG: When I use options ffmpeg then the system breaks. After studying a problem I have come to conclusion, that the mistake is caused with a code in a file ffmpeg ...
BUG: I did "./configure" and its returned OK. But when i did "make" its returned ERROR: "ffmpeg.h:5:22: error: avformat.h: File o directory not found" I searched ...
BUG: I having problems running motion with mySQL. First with motion 3.2.7 the error I was receiving was 2 Mysql query failed 2 : Success but after I tried the ...
BUG: I'm running Fedora Core 6 64bit and I'm getting a compling error I've updated my systems with yum Version: 3.2.8 Platform: Linux (if this is incorrect, please ...
BUG: I got vloopback loaded (via modprobe vloopback). Then I started resize: nohup resize /dev/video0 /dev/video1 320x240 320x240 yuv420p /dev/null After that ...
BUG: Motion dies after an indeterminate time with sig 11. configured: one Logitech Orbit, tracking , webaccess from local and remote hosts webinterace and streaminginterface ...
BUG: Hi, I believe the MJPEG stream of the Allnet 2201 Ethernet Camera is strange enough to be not recognizable to the netcam code of motion 3.2.7. (It seems it ...
BUG: In the daily bind from the 14.3. is following error: I have play a little bit with the API function and I've found out, that only a value for "Y" or "tilt" is ...
BUG: Received by email from Alain Guidez I have seen a bug in ffmpeg.c and ffmepg.h so I send you the diff files in order to correct it. for ffmpeg.c 646c646 void ...
BUG: I'm new to this section, so I don't know if it is the right place to post the following; let me know... It can be this problem has already been fixed in latest ...
BUG: The svn revision r174 of motion crashes at the start all the time with the SN9C102 camera. Core was generated by `./motion'. Program terminated with signal 11 ...
BUG: if 3.2.8 beta1 is compiled with DWITHOUT V4L track.c will fail to compile due missing structs and defines. Fix: #ifndef WITHOUT V4L the calls to uvc ...
BUG: I am running Fedora Core 6(kernel 2.6.20 1.2948) and using motion 3.2.8 beta1 compiled without ffmpeg, mysql and postgresql. Everything compiled without error ...
BUG: I have temperature sensor on /dev/ttyS2 in extension card on ISA slot . When I start motion some of symbol is drop depending CPU load. I can see the same when ...
BUG: I've had problems with motion getting 'stuck' if the mysql server dies or gets restarted. My expectation is that motion would try to reconnect to it. What it ...
BUG: Have one card with 4chips and 16 inputs (SAA7134) and noticed that chips that only used 2 inputs needed more skip frames than chips used 4 inputs. Trying a bit ...
BUG: My camera claims to support 640x480, but it is downsized to 176x144 It's a QuickCam Pro5000. I'm using V4l v2, and the uvcvideo driver. works great, just too ...
BUG: im use motion on fox board www.acmesystems.it the webcam is http://www.acmesystems.it/?id 40 root@axis 00408c000001 /usr/local 198# motion d level 0 Processing ...
BUG: i get an compile error with ffmpeg after "make" Linking Motion... i tracked down the problem to the Makefile line 37: "LIBS lm lpthread ljpeg L/usr ...
BUG: i use the "sql query" option. In normal mode its running and motion write to mysql, but if i used "daemon on" its written in syslog mysql error occured. On starting ...
BUG: I am somewhat of a newbie but I think there is a problem with %f. I tried the command "on movie end echo %f" and I got this: %f /var/lib/motion/snapshots/03 ...
BUG: motion crashes with 'codec not found' error on debian ('testing') it does this as soon as it detects motion i tried every codec as supported by motion (mpeg1 ...
BUG: I have been seeing some very strange behavior from Motion since updating to 3.2.8. I use several analog cameras on a single pci card, but each has its own chip ...
BUG: Motion build exists with error when ffmpeg.c is compiled. Even latest motion snapshot has this problem. Is my version of ffmpeg too new? For info my ffmpeg configure ...
BUG: Hello. I use a motion more than one year. All works excellently on a computer with 32 bit operational system FreeBSD 6.2. Now I wish to force to work a motion ...
BUG: Hi, thanks for great program! I have Mustek WCam300 (lsusb gives: "Bus 1 Device 3: ID 06a5:d001 Divio ProLink DS3303u WebCam") I use "nw8xx.ko" module (it ...
BUG: When I visit action/restart or action/quit through the control interface, motion hangs and both the webcam and the control interface stop responding. I have ...
BUG: The HTML output on motion control isn't valid HTML to some extent. Sample: Thread 1 text left Kamera 1 help The Element is only valid within an Element ...
BUG: vid tuner struct is not initialized in v4l set input which leads to random problems on some cards using the tuner. (see patch included) video.c.dist ...
BUG: 4 identical cameras (NTSC) connected to a 4 port/4 processor capture card. To get threads 1 through 3 functioning in NTSC, you must first set each individual ...
BUG: It seems the httpd remote control is falling apart. Since SVN 253 I have not been able to use the remote control interface with user name and password. And now ...
BUG: I used the latest svn from ffmpeg, configured it with "./configure" (and make, make install) and got the daily snap of motion (20071128 051001). I then configured ...
BUG: When running motion using /etc/init.d/motion start the "on movie end" does not appear to be working. when running motion via command line as motion s n or ...
When choosing a palette I had the problem that the selected palette wasn't chosen, but instead a 'higher' supported palette. My camera supports V4L2 PIX FMT MJPEG ...
BUG: d link dcs 900 connection lost after a short time. Everything works just fine then: exitus (s below). I read about the bug, but not about any solution. Is ...
BUG: hello, i am trying to install motion on my MAC ppc. I followed instructions per the motion website for MAC installations: 1 The installation refers to older ...
BUG: At finished the record a mpeg video (any formats), Motion wait some seconds and crashing. I think is a fail at closed the file.. not sure.... Camera is NetCam ...
BUG: I upgraded to 3.2.9 and now I see a lot of error messages. I'm connecting to an Axis 2400 camera server. It looks like it took about 3 hours for the Error reading ...
BUG: After an hour or so, Motion stop answering. The HTTP daemon doesnt work, no more motion pictures or snapshots are taken. Then when I kill the process I have ...
BUG: %H and %k should be different but they are not. (%H should be 00 23 and %k should be 0 23 ) but they are same i tried at my box. i need %H properities, but ...
BUG: Describe the bug in plain text here. Paste in error messages and other text where new lines must be preserved in the field below angel and i found that when ...
BUG: broken configure checking for postgresql, using with pgsql DIR option not sure if the warning in configure.in:596 is important. but checking for PostgreSQL ...
BUG: For over 1 year I have been noticing my netcam (D Link DCS 900) causes Motion to log an error "Error reading image header" once every few hours. Example: Feb ...
BUG: The default motion.conf file placed in /etc/motion references (remarked) thread files with a path of /usr/local/etc, which is the default when building Motion ...
BUG: Motion is installed on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Server i386 system by using most recent Motion 3.2.9 Deb for Ubuntu Gutsy. Package installed using gdebi to best satisfy ...
BUG: Unlike on picture save, %q always returns "00" when used on movie end :( I would really love if %q would equal the last frame number which would essentially ...
BUG: I set my post capture at an equivalent of 45 seconds (accurate with the use of the fillter frame patch) and my max mpeg time at 120 seconds. I create some motion ...
BUG: After start motion in few minutes it's crashed with errors below. I'm try it from rpm (first log) and after compile it myself (second log). I'm use Mandriva ...
BUG: MotionDailySourceSnap dosn't work, erro message from WIKI parser below. Warning This site does not allow of URLs Environment Motion version: 3.2 ...
BUG: If I remove the webcam while Motion is running (which accidently happens every now and then), Motion becomes unkillable. Ctrl c, kill 1, 2, 15 don't help ...
BUG: When I lost the connection on my webcam Logitech, unplug and plug the usb, then Motion detect the camera again and is going down. Webcam Logitech Quickcam express ...
BUG: Motion runs for about two minutes with two 1280x1024 axis network cameras and then dies. When I set 640x480 in the resolution field in the netcam url it works ...
BUG: Genius IPCam secure 300R. I connect it using url http://webcam/cgi bin/getimage I see a green screen in motion web server. When I do "wget http://webcam/cgi ...
BUG: Message from syslogd@tux at Jun 23 10:58:24 ... motion: 1 Could not allocate 284467200 bytes of memory!: Cannot allocate memory mysql 5.0.51a 1.fc9.i386 ffmpeg ...
BUG: When installing "motion" with the deb packages provided for ubuntu hardy, the install process then invokes invoke rc.d and the motion service is started, before ...
BUG: adding wvc200 patch to .deb package unable to "make" motion with patched files.. as i purchased a new linksys WVC200 camera i came across the new patch provided ...
BUG: Logitech Quickcam Messenger : image much too bright Hi, I have a Logitech Quickcam Messenger webcam, perfectly well recognised by my Debian and Motion, but the ...
BUG: I've created an improved Ubuntu package in my Personal Package Archive which uses CDBS and fixes: daemon starts during install issue (continuation of "BUG ...
BUG: I have a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 which has a native resolution of 640x480. Despite setting it so in motion.conf, all JPG captures are still 320x240. Help ...
BUG: I'm using two grantec ipcam II as netcams. I access a picture, not a movie. Sometimes the jpg is read incomplete, so there is a big error in the bottom of the ...
BUG: The HTTP control API does not appear to terminate motion upon request (quit). It only appears to stop the HTTP server. Here are the steps I perform: 1) Start ...
BUG: I followed the instructions in the Mac installation guide, using Motion 3.2.4 and the ffmpeg for motion 3.2.4 snapshot on SourceForge. The macosx.patch didn ...
BUG: ffmpeg header files not found my config script In my package for ffmpeg header files (ffmpeg devel 0.4.9 0.48.20080908.fc9.x86 64), they seem to have unusual ...
BUG: The action menu options ( at http://192.168.1.100:8080/0/action ) are not documented. This leads to needless bug reports and support questions like this one ...
BUG: There seems to be a change in how uvcvideo works in 2.6.27 that cause motion to not work with the device. This is the output sudo ./motion c /usr/local/etc ...
BUG: make fails with the above error. ffmpeg installed, jpeglib jpeglib devel installed. used svn root@localhost motion # make Welcome to the setup procedure for ...
BUG: When compiling motion, there is a warning concerning a possible buffer overflow. This kind of things prevents the package from being included in some Linux distributions ...
BUG: Hi, I'm using motion to connect to a simple jpeg http url, motion seem to go in infinite loop when a zero length image is received, this error happen for some ...
BUG: Hi, I downloaded motion 3.2.11 and the ffmpeg svn version from the motion website. I successfully built both of them, no extra parms added during configure and ...
BUG: After network problems motion does not continue to update video with new images. Only gray video is generated. This only happens for cameras that do not provide ...
BUG: One of the vloopback inputs suddenly stopped working for some reason after a few months. This happened mid event recording and suddenly the log file was filled ...
BUG: Hi, I'm using area detect to have motion events only from predefined areas. Suppose I set area detect to 123. If a motion is detected in area 4 an event is started ...
BUG: The spec file for building RPMs and the init script for Fedora/RedHat systems shipped with the current versions of motions are very broken and outdated. New ...
BUG: when i have options: framerate 15 ffmpeg video codec mpeg4 I get correct movie file my.avi with FPS 15 when I try to use: ffmpeg video codec flv i'll get movie ...
BUG: Motion has been running for over a month without any problems, suddenly I get this in syslog: Mar 30 16:54:39 ProdeoDVR1 motion: 0 main: Thread 1 Watchdog ...
BUG: #if (defined(BSD)) is wrong. According to the manual, it could be #if (( POSIX C SOURCE 200112L XOPEN SOURCE 600) ! GNU SOURCE) to check if we ...
BUG: When starting normally, Motion fails to open the camera because it can't find a valid palette format. If you use LD PRELOAD to load v4l2convert.so when running ...
BUG: I'm using a Logitech QuickCam Chat which doesn't have built in auto brightness, so I'm trying to use auto brightness in Motion. However, with certain light levels ...
BUG: In Debian lenny motion not work with Aver TV Phone (bt848) and Pal NON Color cam. I'm retrieve motion 3.2.11 ant get same behavior. Selecting "norm 0" (PAL ...
BUG: make result: supercharger:/home/supercharger/arquivos/motion 20090430 051001# make Welcome to the setup procedure for Motion, the motion detection daemon! If ...
BUG: Within the distribution example of the config file are several values, that are set to something other than the values described as "default". For example: ...
BUG: I configured two threads. The first pipes throu vloopback to thread two. On quit or restart i got a segv: 1 vid v4lx start: Using V4L2 1 image ring resize ...
BUG: Without this patch i get: In file included from motion.c:10:motion.h:31:1: warning: " USE GNU" redefinedIn file included from /usr/include/errno.h:29, from ...
BUG: Just made a upgrade from v.3.2.8 to v.3.2.10.1 / 3.2.11 i found out all the help text you have putting in the control interface has broken a lot things here ...
BUG: Running webcam fine.. after a few hours watchdog tries to restart (see log) unsuccesfully and my pwc webcam is nolonger callable the /dev/video0 exists but pwcview ...
BUG: From time to time, in Motion v. 3.2.11, I experience some extended events that are located and recorded due to the fact that after objects that produced the ...
BUG: Hi This might be a duplicate of other bug reports, not really sure, if so just mark this duplicate. I got from a nice working setup on motion v.3.2.8 with near ...
BUG: I don't know whether this is relally a bug: after running a day or two, the HTTP server does not repsond any longer to configuration requests. No error in syslog ...
BUG: In kernel 2.6.31, which ships with Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) and will be shipping with openSUSE 11.2, some web cams now report a v4l2 fourcc of "GRBG". This is effectively ...
BUG: I am trying to use 3 webcams. 1 works. the other 2 give me these errors respectively: mmap information: 1 frames 4 1 0 length 32768 1 1 length 32768 ...
BUG: I have a genius web cam that works fine with applications like cheese and xawtv bat it does not work in motion 3.2.11.1, am currently using ubuntu karmic with ...
BUG: I have running motion with a good result only the mpeg features are disabled error message when trying to ./configure below All other features works fine ...
BUG: The function jpeg mem dest clashes with the new libjpeg8 We need to rename to something unique and in future avoid functions that start with jpeg From our Foswiki ...
BUG: Without changing the build environment and setup, motion dated 20100121 builds succesfully without ffmpeg support. The next one (20100123) does not. All subsequent ...
BUG: Unclear explanantion in configuration file for 'stream quality' in motion.conf. It currently states: # Quality of the jpeg images produced (default: 50 ...
BUG: When using the "v4l2 palette 3" in motion.conf, motion crashes with an segmentationfault # Setting v4l2 palette to 2 forces motion to use V4L2 PIX FMT SBGGR8 ...
BUG: When using motion with tw68, it segment faults around 95% of the time at start. When it starts, it seems to work (but not tested for very long), but it segfaults ...
Bug Reports The Motion TWiki Bug Reporting is here for you if wish to report a bug in Motion. New Bugs Not yet assigned to anyone. Headline Submitted By ...
Bug Status There are few status fields in the Motion bug reports to keep things simple. New: New bugs, bugs not yet resolved are in this state Assigned ...
Burglar Caught With Motion What Happened On 11 Jan 2007, a neighbor's house was burglarized while they slept. The burglar gained entry with a garage door remote ...
Capture Device Options The Basic Setup Before you can start using motion you need to know some basics about your camera. Either you have a camera connected directly ...
Previous owners of the CAS line of IP Server Cameras that are OEMed by a number of different manufacturers including D Link and TrendNet. New owners of the line appear ...
Chdir and Netcam wget Patches Posted by KennethLavrsen based on emails from ChristopheGRENIER Introduction Two patches from mailing list chdir Please a little patch ...
Command Line Options In Motion 3.2.1 and forward most command line options have been removed and replaced them by an option to specify location to motion.conf and ...
Compile With Developer Flags This topic tries to describes what the flags mean, what to do to avoid compiler warnings for each flag. From 3.2.2 snap12 a new configure ...
Config File Options These are the options that can be used in the config file. All number values are integer numbers (no decimals allowed). Boolean options can be ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Value 0 means that Motion does not set the brightness value but leaves it unchanged. If this setting ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic This sets the TCP/IP port number to be used for control of motion using http (browser). Port numbers ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic To use this feature you need to install the FFmpeg Streaming Multimedia System. Experiment to get ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic To use this feature you need to install the FFmpeg Streaming Multimedia System Must not be included ...
This option was renamed to movie filename in 3.2.5 to enable better integration of alternative movie libraries to the current ffmpeg solution. Type: Range ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic This feature uses ffmpegs libavcodec to encode a timelaps movie saving a picture frame at the interval ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Experiment for the value that gives you the desired compromise between size and quality. Comments ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic The faster you fetch pictures from the camera the more CPU load you get and the more pictures get ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic This option is only relevant if you have a TV tuner card where you can select the tuner frequency ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Recommended value is 60 seconds (Default). The value 0 is allowed (but not recommended) and disables ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic This parameter is really used only with video capture cards that has more than one input. However ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Default value is equivalent to legacy 'oldlayout' option. For Motion 3.0 compatible mode (directories ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Full path of the PGM (portable gray map) mask file (binary format). If you have one or more areas ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Comments This is the duration of the event that it limits in practical. It would be very difficult ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic This is the minimum gap between the storing pictures while detecting motion. The value zero means ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Using this you can view the results in real time. E.g. by using the program camstream. The difference ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic MySQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with MySQL libraries to use this feature. Comments ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic MySQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with MySQL libraries to use this feature. Comments ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic MySQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with MySQL libraries to use this feature. Comments ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Example of URL: http://www.gate.com/pe1rxq/jeroen.jpg. Motion can connect to a network camera through ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic This feature makes Motion continuously adjust the noise threshold for distinguishing between noise ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic This feature is not meant to be the normal mode of operation. Especially not if you have the output ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic PostgreSQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with PostgreSQL libraries to use this feature ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic PostgreSQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with PostgreSQL libraries to use this feature ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic PostgreSQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with PostgreSQL libraries to use this feature ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic PostgreSQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with PostgreSQL libraries to use this feature ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Motion buffers the number of picture frames defined by 'pre capture'. When motion is detected the ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic The rotation feature is used when the camera is hanging upside down (180 degrees) or if you choose ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Smartmask is a dynamic, self learning mask. Smartmask will disable sensitivity in areas with frequent ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Default value is equivalent to legacy 'oldlayout' option. For Motion 3.0 compatible mode (directories ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic The snapshots are stored in the target directory the directory/filename specified by the snapshot ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic This is a round robin related feature used when you have a capture card with multiple inputs (controlled ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: This option makes the text defined by text left, text right and text changes twice the normal size. This may be useful ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic This is used when you have more than one camera/device. The single camera can get all its options ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Default value is equivalent to legacy 'oldlayout' option. For Motion 3.0 compatible mode (directories ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic The actual delay is depending on the chosen framerate. If you want the camera to move maximum once ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Motion has special tracking options which use either a serial stepper motor controller, an iomojo ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Number can be defined by multiplying actual webcam rate by desired number of seconds. Actual webcam ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic By setting this to on, the webcam can only be accessed on the same machine on which Motion is running ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Don't set 'webcam maxrate' too high unless you only use it on the localhost or on an internal LAN ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Use this option to save bandwidth when there is not anything important to see from the camera anyway ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic The mjpeg stream consists of a header followed by jpeg frames separated by content length and boundary ...
Type: Range / Valid values: Default: Option Topic Motion does not scale so should be set to the actual size of the v4l device. In case of a net camera ...
Config Range Checking Discussion This topic is created to make an overview of config options and their range, valid values and defaults Config Options type, range ...
Configure Script Configure is script that you run to setup the build environment for the C compiler. It generates the "Makefile" which the program "make" uses to ...
Conversion Specifiers for Advanced Filename and Text Features The table below shows all the supported Conversion Specifiers you can use in the options text event ...
Convert signal to sigaction Introduction Replace use of signal function by sigaction. Description of Patch Currently, motion is using signal() function. There is ...
Script that converts your avi files into 3gp files Introduction Ever wanted to connect with your mobile phone to motion and download the latest movies? This script ...
Get core dumps from motion Set core dump path echo "kernel/core pattern /tmp/core.%e.%p" /etc/sysctl.conf sysctl p or echo "/tmp/core.%e.%p" /proc/sys ...
#SubmitNewBug Submit New Bug Report This form starts a new topic for each bug. Consider filing a Support Request unless you are very sure you have found a ...
#SubmitNewFeatureRequest Submit New Feature Request This form creates a new topic for each feature request. Read through all the existing feature requests ...
Create New Option This form creates a new TWiki topic for a new motion.conf option based on the ConfigOptionTemplate. KennethLavrsen uses this to ease creating updates ...
Create New Patch Topic To post a new patch all you have to do is to fill out the form below and submit it. Note that the topic name must be a WikiWord. Topic name ...
Create New Related Project Topic To post a new project related to Motion all you have to do is to fill out the form below and submit it. You do not have to use the ...
Ask a Support Question: Before you ask a question, please check: Motion Guide This guide is a very detailed document. There are many hours of work behind ...
Creative webcam II Creative webcam III USB Creative Labs Webcam Pro A very inexpensive CMOS based webcam. Capable of about 8 frames per second uncompressed ...
Crop Marks Instead of a Box around motion Description of Patch Makes crop marks instead of a box around motion. You have the code, it's been submitted many times ...
CygwinPatch Description of Patch Greetings all! This is my first contribution to open source software, so please be patient if I screw something up. In response to ...
D Link DCS 900W wireless (802.11b) net camera Worked out of the box. The only config I had to do was to set the camera IP address and 802.11b settings. It came with ...
Motion should detach from standard in and standard out when going daemon Introduction From IRC channel #motion 1 oct 2004 23:09 fd 0 is still attached in daemon ...
Daily File Store Shell Script Introduction Simple shell scripts that store pictures into folders every day and clean it up later on if you wish. Detailed Description ...
Darkwind Hackeron Motion Patching Description of Patch New Options smooth video : bool as explained in http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/SmoothVideoFromEventStartToStop ...
Debian / Ubuntu problems Introduction Debian , Ubuntu and others debian based distributions have a really old motion package , so many users have tons of problems ...
Detection Rate Limit Patch Description of Patch Limit internal detection rate to 3fps at framerates above 5fps to reduce cpu load. Picture and movie output is still ...
Dilate5 Speed Patch Introduction This patch is similar to the DilateNineSpeedPatch, but improves the speed of the dilate5 function instead. As can be seen in the ...
Dilate9 Speed Patch Introduction This patch was created to improve the speed of the dilate9 function in alg.c. As can be seen in the execution profile when motion ...
Downloads Motion is published under the GNU Public License version 2 or later. Current version is Source Files motion .tar.gz Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora ...
draw textn Improvement Introduction This patch should give a small speed boost to the function draw textn. Description of Patch Since draw textn is a heavily called ...
improvement of draw textn Description of Patch I played a little bit with draw textn and optimized it. Now instead of array's, with many calculation inside, i'm using ...
dv2vloopback Introduction This is a program that will enable you to use your camcorder as a v4l device. Detailed Description https://sourceforge.net/projects/dv2vloopback ...
DV4Linux Introduction This program allows applications using the V4L API to receive video from a firewire camcorder. Detailed Description DV4Linux provides two ...
Enhanced Tracking Feature Discussion Proposed by SebastienFricker Hi Kenneth, I had a discussion with Angel, and I think that this point is close on my side. I think ...
Error Logging Motion reports errors to the console when it runs in non daemon mode. And it outputs even more information when run in setup mode. Error logging has ...
Enhanced error / information / debug message logging Introduction Throughout the different source modules, the logging of messages has quite a lot of different implementations ...
Event Convertion Specifier Discussion I have in recent times received different requests and even patches related to how events are numbered. Here are some of them ...
exec proxy Description of Patch A hack to allow you to specify an external program that will function as the source for a MJPEG video stream. This is useful for accessing ...
Extend and Replace Conversion Specifiers Discussion Note: The original proposal is now implemented in Motion 3.2.1. This topic is now used to track new specifiers ...
External Commands Motion can execute external commands based on the motion detection and related events. They are all described in this section. The option quiet ...
To increase the quality of FFMpeg films by specifying quantizer level Description of Patch The problem: Timelapse capture files (mpeg 1) were showing artifacts and ...
ffmpeg video codec to swf to create flash files from ffmpeg Description of Patch This patch was written by B #65533;ser Pete from the mailing list, however I found ...
Bash script to FTP images to a remote server when the file has been updated Introduction Motion is great, but it doesn't have any built in FTP functionality. In order ...
Feature Request: Description We have an external command option when an event is started. Would be usefull to have the same when an event ends. Something like 'oneventend ...
Feature Request: Description Added to this page by KennethLavrsen on behalf of JoergWeber. KennethLavrsen 31 Mar 2005 Follow up Created a special discussion ...
Feature Request: Description A lot of new cheap webcams output their images in Bayer format. According to the driver writers it is not the job of the driver to ...
Feature Request: Description otherwise mail blows chunks when sending from the current user's account. being able to define a From address per thread, this would ...
Feature Request: Description See my answer on SupportQuestion2005x01x03x114817 See also discussion topic MotionWatchdog. KennethLavrsen 31 Mar 2005 Follow up ...
Feature Request: Description It would be nice if the inbuilt web server for webcam view could stream MPEG4 directly instead of multipart JPEG. that way you could ...
Feature Request: Description There is a serially controlled 4 port video switcher (called a VS 400) that was packaged with the iVista software that lets one video ...
Feature Request: Description The option "output motion" permits to see what is changed into a picture. This function works only to produce MPEG or JPEG files, but ...
Feature Request: Description Would time based settings be possiable? In particular I have found that I get much better night time capturing with much more senstive ...
Feature Request: Description Add code to motion that would indicate it is capturing motion. along the lines of locate but instead of drawing a box around what triggered ...
Feature Request: Description Have you considered a FTP client to upload the single frame caputered (or movies) to an FTP server? Even also not when motion is detect ...
Feature Request: Description Have you considered a forward looking algoritm ? Let me explain what I mean. The algoritm in your technology description currently measures ...
Feature Request: Description This would be very handy to have when browsing the database later on, eg. users could use a web based search system to search only on ...
Feature Request: Description I've got many cameras, each set up to write a "thumb.jpg" each second which provides the current picture. I've done this by using the ...
Feature Request: Description It would be nice to be able to define a new virtual webcam in motion.conf containing the picture from all the available webcams in the ...
Feature Request: was titled: "no motion detectet since xy sec" but since the main feature was rejected I decided to change the title for the part that has been accepted ...
Feature Request: Description It would be good if an event id field was added to the SQL logging. The event id for a given event would be assigned to each image file ...
Feature Request: Description Kenneth, I have found some situations where MJPEG streaming is not practical or just cannot be implemented. The output all and snapshot ...
Feature Request: Description Optimize capture with mmap read and writes this can make capture from 10 fps to 30 fps!!! like in palantir http://www.fastpath.it/products ...
Feature Request: Description client could get stream (webcam server) as MPEG instead of MJPEG RobertoSpadim 03 May 2005 Follow up Yep. Would be nice. Takes ...
Feature Request: Description using a http://camera:server/?mode single could return just one jpeg image from camera for grab images, with wget it could return last ...
Feature Request: Description I was wondering if it would be possible to add the pixel dif count in the mjpeg stream. Somewhere between the boundary and content length ...
Feature Request: Description Ability to record sound with motion video and recording activation when detecting sound. OlegKhudyakov 07 May 2005 Follow up In ...
Feature Request: Description we could put webcam server and http control server running on the same port? if client connect to example: http://myhost:myport/webcam ...
Feature Request: Description Some netcams do not use HTTP handshaking (Linksys's WVC54G /img/mjpeg.cgi), a clear/easy place to plug in a function would make it ...
Feature Request: Description I know that there is the 'rotate' option. It would be nice to have also a 'mirror' option (horizontal and/or vertical ?). This option ...
Feature Request: Description OK I have another angle on this. Not wanting to break the mjpeg stream protocol how about adding the following Add yet another motion ...
Feature Request: Description It would be nice to produce xvid videos directly instead of converting them from msmpeg4 / mpeg4 through ffmpeg. WolfgangAndreas ...
Feature Request: Description It would be nice to sample netcams at much lower rates when motion is not detected. I was looking to low cpu to do this, but it's oriented ...
Feature Request: Description we could use ?var value from HTTP protocol to set some interesting things like grab 1 could grab just one picture and close ...
Feature Request: Description OK Here is my last angle on this request Embed in the Jpeg image Motion information as comments using the jpeg write marker function ...
Feature Request: Description add the line openlog("motion", LOG PID LOG NDELAY, LOG DAEMON); ( works well in motion.c in function motion loop(), right before ...
Feature Request: Description an option for cams not to record / take snapshots at set time frames / time periods would be useful. So to record only when one is at ...
Feature Request: Description have forked child proccess indcate there status in ARGV 0 , thus a better view of the current the state of things can be monitored more ...
Feature Request: Description I would like to be able to set up motion to store still images from an event in a directory named by the time the event started. I ...
Feature Request: Description I like to use the text feature to put a timestamp on my videos and stills from motion. When capturing at 640x480, the text tends to ...
Feature Request: Description a camera/image source option to specify a sub process that feeds jpeg images via stdout, this will make it simple to add alternative ...
Feature Request: Description i have ivc 200 capture card. This card working incorrect with VIDEO PALETTE YUV420P, but working fine wich VIDEO PALETTE YUV422. Please ...
Feature Request: Description A new conversion specifier to indicate which camera has detected motion in a multi cam setup would be useful for defining per camera ...
Feature Request: Description With a maskfile for the brightness i can disable dark or bright area. Is motion able to make this or is the auto brightness funktion ...
Feature Request: Description for a cctv system would be good to be able to perform an action if there is no video signal i.e the camera has been messed with or theres ...
Feature Request: Description what about a time and date stamp on the image StephenColes 19 Aug 2005 Follow up Comments There are time and date stamps on images ...
Feature Request: Description It would be really great if there will be a built in cropping function in motion... I don't know the time when motion will support the ...
Feature Request: Description should be fairly stright forward as Darwin is a (Free)BSD derivate. I am only looking for netcam support, as that is what e.g. the Apple ...
Feature Request: Description It would be really helpful if the event nr would be unique, even between restarts of motion. at the moment, event nr starts at 1 after ...
Feature Request: Description I got a problem using motion which I could not work around it. There is a camera at the second level watching a front gateway at the ...
Feature Request: Description Logging of startups and captured events should go to syslog service. Even capturing logs on another machine makes sense in a headless ...
Feature Request: Description There are Modifiers for THREAD numbers, but I consider that threads are numbered not in the order they appear in motion.conf. Between ...
Feature Request: Description I've done a minor bit of digital forensics work and I know that keys, signatures, and checksums are big in that world. Perhaps we could ...
Feature Request: Description Either through the "HTTP Based Control" or via a read only named pipe on the filesystem which is running Motion, it would be very useful ...
Feature Request: Description Usually the first frame in a motion capture is not very descriptive of the actual movie made. The possibility to specify either a later ...
Feature Request: Description Hello, I'm not really sure if I'm on the right place to post that, but it is about a new camera that Motion does not support with the ...
Feature Request: Description It would be nice if motion also includes a sample thread config file showing what has to be a thread config file and what's not. Thanks ...
Feature Request: Description I've been doing some video processing and setup of video streaming using icecast these last couple of weeks. What I've found is that ...
Feature Request: Description Hi I know that this have nothing to do with the main use of motion but as it is close to have the feature anyway i wish for this: I ...
Feature Request: Description consider support of as a replacement for current motion detection scheme: Gandalf Library http://gandalf library.sourceforge.net/ Gandalf ...
Feature Request: Description Is it possible to make motion recognize an external signal (similar to SIGUSR1) that will make it capture a configurable number of seconds ...
Feature Request: Description I am trying to use it to watch the entire front yard. The typical event begins with very small objects (people or cars) entering from ...
Feature Request: Description If one has created a mask file (of some degree of complication) and then the camera gets (accidentially) bumped or moved, then to reposition ...
Feature Request: Description There's a nice program for win32 called Dorgem (dorgem.sf.net) which has a nice feature to serve JPEG on dedicated port, not multipart ...
Feature Request: Description Hi, Im using your software for monitoring our parking place and according to the count of people, who always cause start of saving pictures ...
Feature Request: Description I've never contributed to an open source project before and would like to add to this one. I've added a feature that allows you to ...
Feature Request: Description If I watch a complete dir of movies with mplayer, there's no hint on what date/time the actual movie was shot. It would be nice, if ...
Feature Request: Description Hi, is it possible to have an user and password in the webcam http, like "control authentication" ? for example "webcam authentication ...
Feature Request: Description Hi all, I'd like to know if it is possible to implement motion detection that compare a static jpeg image instead of the previous captured ...
Feature Request: Description I have the notion that it would be useful if the web server was able to multiplex the pictures from several cams for say 1 or 2 seconds ...
Feature Request: Description It would be nice to have a way to add images (e.g. a logo) at some position. An extended feature of this kind would be a complete ...
Feature Request: Description I'd like to have the option of specifying a name for each thread which could be incorporated into strings (filenames etc) as an alternative ...
Feature Request: Description Another little thing: I would like to see some indiction on the cam picture of detection being in pause state. My first suggestion ...
Feature Request: Description Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to create a directive to limit the maximum number of simultaneous connections to a motion ...
Feature Request: Description In addition to an event, an event frame parameter could be implemented. This will function similiarly to %q which uniquely identifies ...
Feature Request: Description If you have somewhat unimportant stuff happening in a far away area but close up (like near a window) you want to capture more information ...
Feature Request: Description I think it would be nice with a handler to external commands on errors, that could be used to send a mail, call thru asterisk or whatever ...
Feature Request: Description I would like to have the option of starting motion with a detection delay so i can leave home without getting myself detected like other ...
Feature Request: Description It would be very nice if motion could support uvc webcams. Trying a Logitech Pro 5000, supported by the new ( unfinished ) module uvcvideo ...
Feature Request: Description The present autobrightness function (in v4l picture controls) merely changes the device brightness to ensure that the average pixel ...
Feature Request: Description I'm running a Logitech 4000 at 640x480 on a PII 450. Works really well at 5fps until night time, when I need to use despeckle to get ...
Feature Request: Description hej : ) motion is a suuper great program : ) but i'm searching a tool to locate a motion and get the coordinations of this detected ...
Feature Request: Description If I had a temprature sensor (or two) it would be nice to display it in a text area on each picture in real time. Also if I had other ...
Feature Request: Description Change Log? It would be nice to be able to see the changelog here on the wiki, a link to CVS would be fine. It takes a lot of effort ...
Feature Request: Description Is it possible to generate a 4x4, 6x6, 8x8 split image using all camera threads and put this in to one additional mjpeg stream? This ...
Feature Request: Description When surveilling a larger area, the image can often be divided into two or three major different areas of interest. A "gardenview" could ...
Feature Request: Description May be this request is way too high on Kenneth's Nerdometer, because only a few people use color cameras or because by implementing ...
Feature Request: Description I think it would be useful if not just images saved in snapshot mode (named according to snapshot filename), but also normal, motion ...
Feature Request: Description Hi. It would be nice is there is future which captures a video if motion is detected. In most commercial CCTV Recorders you have only ...
Feature Request: Description For better and easier handling of Motion with system init scripts, Motion should be able to write a PID file and setuid() to a configured ...
Feature Request: Description I would like to see a inverse motion detection feature. When looking for for instance wireless security camera's with a radio or satellite ...
Feature Request: Description Would like to be able to create time lapsed movies from a network URL which points to a .PNG graphic instead of a JPG. TeamLoser ...
Feature Request: Description Motion only works with networks cameras with jpeg o mjpeg stream. The new generations of network cameras send the stream in MPEG4 format ...
Feature Request: Description We use the snapshot feature as a backup for the motion detect feature. For this purpose, we put the snapshot interval to 1 sec. We would ...
Feature Request: Description We would like to use a telemetry device with motion. The idea is to have the telemetry device sending triggers to motion that should ...
Feature Request: Description It would be great to have a direction parameter in the options. For example, "direction NS" to only trigger an event when the motion ...
Feature Request: Description I would like to have option in motion.conf to disable the link of lastsnap.jpg. I need snapshoot every 300s for example. I would like ...
Feature Request: Description I'm using the Logitech 4000 webcam that has a digital zoom feature. My webcam is located a bit far from the surveillance area, so I ...
Feature Request: Description I've 3 cheap webcam, on a usb 2 hub. (Linux slackware 10.2). Ive used 3 motion threads conf. Each one works good. But if I use motion ...
Feature Request: Description what about an cygwin port? RobertoSpadim 21 Oct 2006 Follow up Comments A part of Motion use an API of Linux or FreeBSD Kernel ...
Feature Request: Description Add the connection status of devices. This feature is mainly useful for network devices , so you can get the connection status of any ...
Feature Request: Description It would be VERY NICE if motion could create EXIF metadata for the pictures. Stating the event number, time, changed pixels.. or etc ...
Feature Request: Description E.g. in FreeBSD one should be able to switch between multiple camera connectors on a single card. This would be very useful for video ...
Feature Request: Description I think it could be useful to introduce cron expressions to change the configuration of motion according to the time of the day. In ...
Feature Request: Description Hi all. I have Motion installed on a very low power PC. It has 256MB Ram and a 800Mhz Via C3 processor (which work with passive cooling ...
Feature Request: Description I have a camera observing a street, but I would like to be able to distinguish movies of people from those of passing cars in the ...
Feature Request: Description Hi, I use a lightweight server (Linksys NSLU2 running Openslug) which is all I can house in my 'server cupboard'. It only uses 10 Watts ...
Feature Request: Hi! I am sorry for my english. I have changed function start() in /etc/rc.d/init.d/motion for run motion with non priviledged UID and special umask ...
Feature Request: Description When fetching Jpeg images from a network IP camera ( from a non streaming / non MJPEG source ), the motion netcam code does a TCP ...
Feature Request: Hi, the ALL2201 seems to be the cheapest of the current Allnet Linux ARM based netcams. I just added AllnetALL2201.mjpegsnif to the dumps page: ...
Feature Request: Description I am looking for a way to automatically create a Edit Decision List (EDL) from video captured by multiple cameras. To do this I need ...
Feature Request: Description a graphical gui... ThierryC 12 Mar 2007 Follow up Comments See third bullet in MotionMissionStatement Motion is written to be ...
Feature Request: Description Hello, need support for EDICAM IC 1500 will place a raw file Regards Jörg JoergStickdorn 20 Mar 2007 Comments IP Cam name is EDIMAX ...
Feature Request: Description Greetings, motion is amazing! I have 4 sources, each records frames into their own folder and then at the end of the day a perl script ...
Feature Request: Description Semi related to the various "Lost Signal/Camera" requests FeatureRequest2006x04x08x061905 It might also be helpful if motion were to ...
Feature Request: Description in some installations it would be useful to have the sensitivity Mask disabled during motion events. eg: if i set up a camera in ...
Feature Request: Description Sorry if already discussed, but I couldnt find any reference. Many a times I dont want to check the whole area for motion, only specific ...
Feature Request: Description MJPEG is a better codec for security cameras especially when you need to step though them frame by frame. Since ffmpeg already supports ...
Feature Request: Description I was delighted to notice that the newest version of Motion supports direct encoding to Flash video via FFmpeg. Something I have done ...
Feature Request: Description If there isn't a way already, I think there should be an option where motion can change the user id that it runs under. Similar to the ...
Feature Request: Description I have a web camera which is connected via Homeplug Ethernet over mains, which reduces the amount of wiring which has to be run to ...
Feature Request: Description Hello, I use motion as MJPEG streaming software and find it useful. The output is playable on vlc player. I find ways to start Motion ...
Feature Request: Description Some webcams and capture cards support many palettes to capture from, righ now motion automatically does selection. There're users that ...
Feature Request: Description the new feature generates file:// style links which is useless when you're accessing the control port remotely. I would prefer to have ...
Feature Request: Description The HTML output on motion control isn't valid HTML to some extent. Sample: Thread 1 text left Kamera 1 help The li Element ...
Feature Request: Description Hi I highly appreciate good work already done to motion, its a piece of code which i would write by myself if you haven't done it already ...
Feature Request: Description As far as I understand labeling (marking movement in all pixels of the same colour in the neighbourhood of changed pixel?) it seems ...
Feature Request: Description This was discussed with sack, Lavr and joergw a couple of weeks ago on #motion so I figured I will add an actual feature request on ...
Feature Request: Description It would be nice to be able to control PTZ Network camera controls. SubnetG 31 Dec 2007 Follow up That's in roadmap already : ...
Feature Request: Description In debugging a recent problem with an IP9100A (see WorkingDevices) I needed to find out the TCP receive and transmit buffer sizes that ...
Feature Request: Description It might be handy to be able to define alternate dimensions of an image from that at which they were captured. Perhaps this would be ...
Feature Request: Description It would be great to be able to change the colour of the locate box to red and increase the width a bit for it to be more visible in ...
Feature Request: Description The Allnet 2281 camera is not working with motion 3.2.9: netcam url http://192.168.1.1/cgi/mjpg/mjpeg.cgi netcam userpass admin:admin ...
Feature Request: Description Hi. Rather than using serial ports and dedicated custom protocol for driving X Y steppers, it should be simpler to use parallel port ...
Feature Request: Description Hi, I have a netcamera without sound record, but I have a microphone... How I can add the new channel at the final video? Now I launch ...
Feature Request: Description I know it was removed in 3.2.7 (as per the docs here) but I found it to be a useful option that cannot be replaced with minimum frame ...
Feature Request: Description I miss a option in motion.conf to disable storage of jpeg files. Or did I missed something? AndreasLindner 31 Mar 2008 Follow ...
Feature Request: Description I am currently capturing 10fps (to try and get smooth video). I had a look at the output of motion that shows the changed pixels. Even ...
Feature Request: Description It would be great if a motion jpeg can be outputted for first, best or center like for output normal. RomanGaufman 15 May 2008 ...
Feature Request: Description 1) Currently, oprofile shows motion's alg despeckle as the second most intensive symbol name on my motion box because I have fps 25 ...
Feature Request: Description It would be really nice if motion could create a fifo file for the encoded stream call the option video fifo :) This way you could ...
Feature Request: Description It would be great if there was the ability to pass flags like these to the ffmpeg encoding process: g 160 cmp 3 subcmp 3 mbd 2 ...
Feature Request: Description 1) Currently I have to specify the camera name multiple times in filenames, text variables on camera lost, etc. It would be great ...
Feature Request: Description So there is a thread number format specifier, but no name. It'd simply (my) configuration if there was a way to name a camera: cameraName ...
Feature Request: Description RAW/HTML is currently implemented via a config file option. This should (could) be supported per request for instance, like this: ...
Feature Request: Description Nice program, thanks. Most security cameras are low resolution (example 640x480) and it is difficult to positively identify someone ...
Feature Request: Description I have a problem with wind and trees causing motion and so I'm thinking about ways to adjust sensitivity using areas and colors. For ...
Feature Request: Description Hi, I was wondering if it would be possible to manage priorities for roundrobin cameras ? You would declare some of them more important ...
Feature Request: link multiple cameras Description it would be a great feature to link some cameras.. so i got a camera inside and outside.. the one outside i can ...
Feature Request: Description I am looking for support to be added for the Airlink 101 AICN500W Wireless network camera. I am unable to get a a tcpdump from it as ...
Feature Request: Description hi! First sorry my terrible bad english. Could it be posible to encode movies directly as mp4 or mov "hinted" movies ? I'm trying to ...
Feature Request: Description We have a very usefull lastsnap.jpg simlink, but what about lastmovie.avi simlink ???... In a web page we can post a link with ...
Feature Request: Description 1st off, great app.. took a little tweaking to get it to do what I wanted, but its GREAT!!! It would be nice to see a function to auto ...
Feature Request: Description Hi What i mean is: At this time you can define in the "text left" %H for Hours, what i need is an function: %cmd1,%cmd2 to display ...
Feature Request: Description Hi. I tried to start motion with my usb webcam (Logitech, Inc. QuickCam express Plus), and this was the output: 0 Motion 3.2.11 Started ...
Feature Request: Description Now we have %s wich gives us the seconds passed since 1970, and we have %q wich gives the frame nr within the second. Unfortunately ...
Feature Request: Description I think It will be useful if motion detect that image given by camera is TOO DARK (defined by some new parameter) to run some script ...
Feature Request: Description I have a system on which I am trying to run 4 usb cameras to capture snapshots and timelapse videos no motion detection. I am trying ...
Feature Request: Description Would it be possible to add a setting in the config file, where selected functions of motion eg. motion detection etc could be disabled ...
Feature Request: Description It could be interesting to enable wildcards in the threads configuration files to enhance the file system security. For instance, we ...
Feature Request: Description On startup motion directly start to capture frames and doing things like writing to a database. Somehow my bttv card needs a litlle ...
Feature Request: Description I have a web camera that on its own sends pictures via FTP to the machine that stores the individual picture files. This currently ...
Feature Request: Description Hello! To discriminate between different objects in size (insects as ants!) I would like to have a setting called maximum treshold ...
Feature Request: Description So the HTTP control part has config option to specify basic authent... can we do same for the main stream itself to do basic blocking ...
Feature Request: Description The location I've got my camera in results in some dead space at the top of the frame. This would be an ideal place to put the date ...
Feature Request: Description In addition to HTTP serving up files, these streams are generally available over RTSP for IP cameras. The folks over at LIVE555 Streaming ...
Feature Request: Description Enable MOTION to process VLC's MJPG Streams. VLC is a powerfull multiplatform streaming solution. There are many Cams in the market ...
Feature Request: Description when only http streaming is used and there are no active clients, it is wasteful to keep grabbing images, even at 2 per second every ...
Feature Request: Description I'm missing an easy way to get current values of the settings. In the earlyer versions I could do a query and simply strip the html ...
Feature Request: Description Hi, thanks for the very useful (and funny) software. Would it be possible to specify coordinates instead of just pre defined areas ...
Feature Request: Description It would be nice to have a threshold so that motion frames are not detected if pixel difference (for changed pixels) is below that ...
Feature Request: Description The current build is not compatible out of the box with Cygwin, inhibiting netcam users from using the cygwin/windows combination from ...
Feature Request: Description If you capture with a resolution of 1024x768 it will be usefull to limit the webcam images to 640x480. The new jpeg lib include such ...
Feature Request: Description a virtual device which duplicates the video device would be great. for it would make it possible to start any video program on motion ...
Feature Request: Description I love motion! Great program. My request is small and should be easy to code. I have it running remotely and sometimes like to look ...
Feature Request: Description please add support in motion for web cams which report : 0 Processing thread 0 config file /etc/motion/motion.conf 0 Motion 3 ...
Feature Request: Description A contiguous pixel count should be used for the threshold setting. In other words, all pixels would need to be in contact with each ...
Feature Request: Description the current threshold value is represented as a number of pixels that trigger the motion detection. this is a problem if you have multiple ...
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Ffmpeg Avicodec Logging Description of Patch This patch will give a voice to ffmpeg's avicodec, etc libraries. Installation of Patch Download the patch file. If ...
FFMpeg Codec Compilation Patch Introduction First, see the following bug report: BugReport2005x08x05x210647 The problem is that the codec field in struct AVStream ...
FFMpeg Frame Rate Patch Introduction As of build 4754 of FFMpeg, the fields frame rate and frame rate base have been removed from struct nop AVCodecContext ...
FFmpeg 0.4.9pre1 patch Introduction This patch enables Motion to be built with FFmpeg 0.4.9pre1 and also newer 0.4.8 builds (such as the ones available for Gentoo ...