To get ACTi cameras working you need the latest firmware for the camera. Use the value in motion.conf: netcam_url http://192.168.1.100/cgi bin/cmd/system?GET_STREAM ...
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 Main.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, as ...
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 Wiki Name. e.g. 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 Main.MikeLees. I think I have spotted a minor bug with config file save if I set text_left to have leading spaces via ...
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: Using last snapshot ( motion 3.1.18_snap8 ) with ffmpeg 0.4.8 compiled from source and with logitech Sphere ( pwc 10.0.5 ). modprobe pwc size=vga mbufs=3 fps ...
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: Motion.BugReport2005x01x30x190907 did not fix the compilation issue on certain VIA processors. When compiling for VIA Samuel 2, Ezra, Ezra T architectures the ...
BUG: Reported by Main.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 ...
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: Main.KennethLavrsen has entered this bug on behalf of Main.WillCooke because the bug is so nasty that it is worth having proper traceability on. Originally reported ...
BUG: As described at http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/afontes/archive/2004/10/15/28726.aspx motion headers cause HTTP protocol violation when using DOT.NET The issue ...
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 Main.KennethLavrsen from mailing list posting from Main.ChristopheGRENIER Sometimes motion try to free an invalid memory area for (j=0; config_params ...
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: Compiling motion with mjpegtools support breaks motion compilation for AMD64. ******************** * Configure status * ******************** OS ...
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) stream ...
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: Trying to compile motion with libjpeg 8 and the make crashes linux motion 3.2.11.1 # ./configure checking for Darwin... no checking for *BSD... no checking for ...
BUG: I do not understand why. Motion 3.10.1 compiled by another person on Doug computer processor brcm47xx started normally. Compiled by me under the Motion 3.11 ...
BUG: make dist clean svn update ./configure make make install motion Segmentation fault (core dumped) This is a Logitech quickcam orbit MP that has been working well ...
BUG: ffmpeg writes FLV files even when FFV1 is selected. motion has an ffmpeg output option to produce FF lossless video, however the actual create output differs ...
BUG: When motion is compiled on OpenBSD the events like on_picture_save or on_event_start leave a zombie sh process behind after execution. This is caused by the ...
BUG: motion does not seem able to read this which should be very similar to bktr0. cxm0 serves as both the tuner0 and the video0. cxm0 comes from the pvrxxx port ...
BUG: Hi :) I work with an camera outputting only still JPG pictures. For a reason that I ignore, that's their version of "MJPEG". So I use a framerate of 1 with an ...
BUG: Video goes to the grey screen with message "Unable to open Video Device since date " printed top left after random time of motion running. Grey video may has ...
BUG: It is not possible to compile motion 3.2.12 with the latest ffmpeg (SVN r25563) There is an error while linking (see below) ./configure *************** ...
BUG: What could be the reason, for a loop in motion whenever started by "/etc/init.d/motion start" ? Actually I have done a several motion installations so far with ...
BUG: I cannot report off the actual system I am running it as it has no mail connectivityon so please ignore the powermac bits. It is a 533MHz fanless Via C3 with ...
BUG: Recently I started using Motion with MySQL and a Wireless Camera. The issue with the wireless camera it cuts out here and there and it causes Motion to restart ...
BUG: I am running Slackware Linux, version 12.2 with kernel 2.6.27.7 smp I am trying to compile the "motion" program to include ffmpeg support. ffmpeg needs: BZ2 ...
BUG: Motion crashes when the following sort of URL is accessed: http://192.168.2.9:8080/0/config/set?thread=/var/www/motionweb/motion/Camera 6.conf I'm guessing it ...
BUG: I have a capture card with 16 inputs. In the config file when I select input 8, I get the video from input 0. The reason is lies in video2.c, row 196 if (in ...
BUG: Motion appears to work OK with my setup, and I get a bunch of videos dayly, usually triggered by obvious motion. After some time, however, it appears to simply ...
BUG: System information: Debian Squeeze 6.0.0 Kernel: 2.6.32 5 xen amd64 Motion: 3.2.12 2x Logitech HD Webcam C270 I have two Logitech HD Webcam C270 and when I run ...
BUG: My images are scrambled(99 procent of them), sometimes a normal picture is captured when detecting motion. . Webcam is a PS3 eye camera, tested with mplayer ...
BUG: Kernel headers newer than 2.6.38 have dropped V4L1 support, thus linux/videodev.h no longer exists, making building motion impossible. Kernel headers newer ...
BUG: the vloopback module can be initialized to work in zero copy mode. When client has issued an ioctl pusher will receive a SIGIO signal. Right now, when client ...
BUG: With laptop build in camera seems to work fine, but with some cheap USB cam (dont know brand, gcpca_pac7302) this error 0 NTC ALL motion_startup: Motion ...
BUG: With 2 x MS Microsoft LifeCam HD 3000 the picture is feathered together when viewed either through the web page or when recorded onto disk The two cameras are ...
BUG: These kernels no longer support v4l1. I found a v4l2loopback at https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback but motion fails with it with: Jul 13 13:38:48 wile ...
BUG: Colors appear to be skewed in respect to the image. To correct this I initialized dinfo.do_fancy_upsampling to FALSE in two locations in the file jpegutils.c ...
BUG: I think motion is not ready for V4L2? gcc g O2 D_REENTRANT DHAVE_FFMPEG I/usr/include DFFMPEG_NEW_INCLUDES DHAVE_FFMPEG_NEW I/usr/include/postgresql ...
BUG: when use ffmpeg from svn (i have not old, compatible version) it's core dump when try start write, but create destination file with zero length. because in ffmpeg ...
BUG: When you do zzz the bot should reply with "wake up!" or whatever, instead it shows below text 2:41:49:PM #60;Fl00k #62; zzzzzz bbl 2:41:55:PM #60;WolfDog ...
BUG: If you try to use the degrees symbol (°) in the text_left parameter (and maybe text_right, I haven't tried), Motion displays "2January0" instead. Paste in your ...
BUG: make: motion.h:43:28: fatal error: linux/videodev.h: No such file or directory /opt/motion 3.2.12$ cat install.log checking for Darwin... no checking for *BSD ...
Bug Reports The Motion Wiki Bug Reporting is here for you if wish to report a bug in Motion. New Bugs Not yet assigned to anyone. Headline Submitted By Age ...
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 ...
CCTV View Introduction CCTV View is a Google Chrome extension that adds a button on the toolbar. Clicking this button displays up to 4 cctv streams (or still images ...
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 Main.KennethLavrsen based on emails from Main.ChristopheGRENIER Introduction Two patches from mailing list chdir Please a ...
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 Motion will try to adjust the brightness of the video device if the images captured are too dark ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Value 0 means that Motion does not set the brightness value but leaves it unchanged. If this ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic By setting this to on, the control using http (browser) can only be accessed using login and ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic The recommended value for most is "on" which means that you can navigate and control Motion with ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic By setting this to on, the control using http (browser) can only be accessed on the same machine ...
* 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 ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Daemon mode is what you typically will use once you are done experimenting and have motion run ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic A way of tuning (by removing or enhancing) noise in the motion image. Options for the despeckle ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic To use this feature you need to install the FFmpeg Streaming Multimedia System. Experiment to ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Works like ffmpeg_cap_new but outputs motion pixel type pictures instead. This feature generates ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Generates a new film at the beginning of each new event and appends to the film for each motion ...
* 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 ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Note that it is important that you use the conversion specifiers in ffmpeg_filename that ensure ...
* 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 * mpeg1 gives you mpeg1 files with extension .mpg. It is only supported by the old ffmpeg ...
* 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 ...
* 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 The height of the image in pixels. Motion does not scale so should be set to the actual size ...
* 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 Experiment to see what works best for your application. Note: From version 3.1.17 (snap release ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic The value 'preview' only works when 'output_normal' is set to either 'first' or 'best'. Comments ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic This is smart for running a server that also does other tasks such as running Apache, MySQL etc ...
* 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 option is used when you want to capture images at a rate lower than 2 per second. When this ...
* 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 Note that the picture frames are buffered by Motion and once motion is detected also the first ...
* 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 This option was renamed from ffmpeg_filename to movie_filename in Motion 3.2.5. Default value ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic MySQL CONFIG FILE OPTION. Motion must be built with MySQL libraries to use this feature. If you ...
* 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 * 1.0: the historical implementation using HTTP/1.0, closing the socket after each http request ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Use this if you need to connect to a network camera through a proxy server. Example of syntax ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Comments I am not sure I like this option name. It does not really tell what it does. netcam ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Example of URL: http://www.gate.com/pe1rxq/jeroen.jpg. Motion can connect to a network camera ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic To use no authentication simply remove this option from the config file comment it out with ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic It has normally been the advice not to use this with 'noise_tune' turned on. However the latest ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic This is different from the threshold parameter. This is changes at pixel level. The purpose is ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic This feature makes Motion continuously adjust the noise threshold for distinguishing between ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic NOTE: There is situations when motion don't detect a lost camera! It depends on the driver, some ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Do not write "none" if you do not want to execute commands. Simply do not include the option ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to ...
* 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 ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Motion images shows the motion content of the pictures. This is good for tuning and testing but ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic If you set the value to 'first' Motion saves only the first motion detected picture per event ...
* 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 pgsql_db 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 The purpose of this is mainly to create smooth video clips each time motion is detected. Use ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic The recommendation is to always use jpg except if you have a specific need to store high quality ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Motion buffers the number of picture frames defined by 'pre_capture'. When motion is detected ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic When Motion is started and this option is defined, Motion creates a file containing the process ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic 100 means hardly compressed. A small number means a much smaller file size but also a less nice ...
* 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 The Round Robin feature is automatically activated where multiple threads are sharing the same ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic The Round Robin feature is automatically activated where multiple threads are sharing the same ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic If you start Motion in setup mode, two things happen: 1. Motion starts in non daemon mode ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Smartmask is a dynamic, self learning mask. Smartmask will disable sensitivity in areas with ...
* 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 ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic This is the target directory for all snapshots, images files and movie files. The default is ...
%NOP{ * Note: Do not edit this topic. Go to relevant ConfigFileOptions topic * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.TWikiAdminGroup }% * Type: * Range / Valid values ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic By setting this option to 'on' the number of pixels that changed compared to the reference frame ...
* 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 ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic The idea is that %C can be used filenames and text_left/right for creating a unique identifier ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic text_left is displayed in the lower left corner of the pictures. If the option is not defined ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic text_right is displayed in the lower right corner of the pictures. If the option is not defined ...
* 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 The 'threshold' option is the most important detection setting. When motion runs it compares ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic This feature makes Motion continuously adjust the threshold for declaring motion. The threshold ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic The actual delay is depending on the chosen framerate. If you want the camera to move maximum ...
* 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 Using this you can view the results in real time. E.g. by using the program camstream. Disable ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Number can be defined by multiplying actual webcam rate by desired number of seconds. Actual ...
* 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 ...
* 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 ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Use this option to save bandwidth when there is not anything important to see from the camera ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic Note that each camera thread must have its own unique port number and it must also be different ...
* Type: * Range / Valid values: * Default: * Option Topic The mjpeg stream consists of a header followed by jpeg frames separated by content length and ...
* 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 ...
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 ...
Some autoconf portability improvements Description of Patch While hacking on Motion on OSX and OpenBSD I have had to adjust configure.in to make fewer assumptions ...
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 Foswiki topic for a new motion.conf option based on the ConfigOptionTemplate. Main.KennethLavrsen uses this to ease creating ...
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 System.WikiWord. Topic ...
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 Main.SebastienFricker Hi Kenneth, I had a discussion with Angel, and I think that this point is close on my side. ...
Enumerated values for config options Description of Patch This patch improves the handling of config options which take a small number of values (like a C 'enum' ...
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 ...
EXIF information for pictures Description of Patch Here's a patch that adds EXIF information for pictures saved by Motion. The text (the "image description" tag) ...
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 Main.KennethLavrsen on behalf of Main.JoergWeber. Main.KennethLavrsen 31 Mar 2005 Follow up Created a special ...
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. Main.KennethLavrsen 31 Mar 2005 Follow ...
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 Main.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. Main.OlegKhudyakov 07 May 2005 Follow ...
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. Main.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 Main.StephenColes 19 Aug 2005 Follow up Comments There are time and date stamps ...
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. Main.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? Main.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... Main.ThierryC 12 Mar 2007 Follow up Comments See third bullet in MotionMissionStatement Motion is written to ...
Feature Request: Description Hello, need support for EDICAM IC 1500 will place a raw file Regards Jörg Main.JoergStickdorn 20 Mar 2007 Comments IP Cam name ...
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. Main.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? Main.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. Main.RomanGaufman 15 May ...
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 With Text Features from motion.conf we can show : ================= %v = event %q = frame number %t = thread (camera) number %D ...
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 ...
Feature Request: Description As Motion uses libjpeg quite a lot, i think maybe using libjpeg turbo will be a good idea. On Core2 Quad 2.4Ghz / Linux x86 64 in my ...
Feature Request: Description Dear motion developers, I am (and perhaps others) in the need of providing motion with a static picture file like a .jpg for very slow ...
Feature Request: Description Hi there I thought it would be cool to trigger my screensaver whenever "the computer" noticed I had moved away from my desk, and a camera ...
Feature Request: Description It would be nice to have a built in RTP/RTSP server so we could watch the video stream via any RTP/RTSP supported software or devices ...
Feature Request: Description I just came across Motion and it were love at first sight it just fell into place all functions logic and well explained functions. ...
Feature Request: Description my camera (axis 209mfd) supports multiple resolution streams up to the megapixel range. a great feature would be to have motion use ...
Feature Request: Description Browser controls to start and stop motion. Also a browser settings system so non techies can easily adjust fps and output directories ...
Feature Request: Description It would be great, if motion will have conversion specifier which implies a value of current light. For example ,my picture is 528x432 ...
Feature Request: Description At the moment one set of detection settings and events is allowed per video input. It would be nice and much more flexible if one could ...
Feature Request: Description The feature would use the library computer vision and allow basic detection. The options can be: detected_gun, gun toting, detected ...
Feature Request: Description Work on an older version of motion exists here. It would be great to have this work integrated into trunk. The less messing around with ...
Feature Request: Description Thanks for the already amazing app! I #39;d love to output files based on date and current hour, it would make management of the snapshots ...
Feature Request: Description Newer IP cameras are supporting resolutions that are non modulo 16. Adding this feature would allow for greater flexibility with resolution ...
Feature Request: Description Would be nice to have an opportunity to control Gain, Exposure, Backlight Compensation, White Balance Temperature. When using some cheap ...
Feature Request: Description Hi, when I started using motion's built in web server for streaming (via the excellent nph mjprox CGI program from MJPEG ProxyGrab) ...
Feature Request: Description Welcome My English is not good but I will try to stretch something. I have a Tp Link router and 1043nd OpeWrt software loaded, I wanted ...
Feature Request: Description I would like to enable motion tracking on my Foscam camera. I can activate panning and tilting through URL commands. example: http: ...
Feature Request: Description I #39;m implementing a rich client to manage the server. I #39;m trying to only use motion control as interface because of facility ...
Feature Request: Description First thank for creating this program, it is used around the world. Please in future releases, do motion httpd authentication so that ...
Feature Request: Description Hi. I am building a embedded controller with motion detection capability for a large unnamed company. I would find it useful if motion ...
Feature Request: Description We need smaller file image output size for saving our storage media ,gif output is awesome if available. Main.PermadiWitjaksono ...
Feature Request: Description First of all, thanks for this amazing software. I #39;m using it to monitor my cats for years and am very happy with it, however, sometimes ...
Feature Request: Description I #39;m saving my snapshot image outside target_dir to avoid unneccessary writes on flash backed filesystem which is under target_dir ...
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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 AVCodecContext. They have ...
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 ...
ffmpeg stream Description of Patch Having a low upstreambandwidth i needed a solution to stream in also other video formats (mpeg4, h264, flv, ...). Insted of "vlc ...
Fix Standard Function Parameters Introduction Rigth now no all functions in motion follow the same standard in parameter order , i.ex most of functions that use ...
disable labeling and fix strings from http Description of Patch The patch fix the management of strings from http remote control , setting to NULL when they are ...
FixTypos Description of Patch This patch fix many typos in comments ( i ran aspell against the code ). Also there's a fix to free cnt eventtime_tm when motion exits ...
Fixed Mask File On Motion Images Patch Introduction This is a small feature added to 3.2.1 which shows the fixed mask (in addition to the smart mask) in bright red ...
Frame Rate Improvement Introduction I think the time to take a picture has to be included in the framerate calculation. Description of Patch I changed the moment ...
FreeBSD Motion supports FreeBSD with almost the same features that linux version. Requirements * autoconf 2.59_2 * gcc 3.4.6_20051206 * m4 1.4.4 * linuxthreads ...
FreeBSD Fix Compile Problem description When you try to compile FreeBSD version of motion without bktr support ( V4L in linux ) passing without v4l to configure ...
FreeBSDPortPatch Description of Patch Here there is the patch for FreeBSD port . * A patch against last stable motion version up to date to be used in official ...
IRC on Freenode Some of the hardcore Motion users and developers are often available on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). You are welcome to pass by for a short question ...
Frequently Asked Questions about Motion How do I get Motion to work with two or more camera at a time? If I run with one camera Motion works but when I add one more ...
GMotion Introduction PyGtk desktop motion application. The project is currently hosted on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/gmotion/ Detailed Description Current ...
gmotionlive Introduction gmotionlive is a gtk based webcam viewer Detailed Description gmotionlive is a multipart/x mixed replace viewer. It uses gnomevfs to open ...
GST Motion Introduction GST Motion is an ongoing project aiming at moving Motion video/image features into the GStreamer framework. GSt Motion will be a new application ...
GadSpot NC1000 W10 Works well, Wireless, as IR uses standard CCTV lens. * netcam_url http://CAMERA_IP/GetData.cgi (for a video stream) * netcam_url http://CAMERA ...
GadspotNC800Relay Introduction The network camera Gadspot NC800 has a weird firmware that don't allow motion to work properly with its mjpg stream. To allow motion ...
genhtml.sh Author: Main.JeroenVreeken Submitted by. Main.KennethLavrsen Generates output similar to show.cgi but without the header. Depends on the chosen filename ...
Generic Tracking Patch Introduction Create a standard output from Motion which is easy to interface to for a program that controls a PTZ type camera. Description ...
Grand Wi Fi Camera model 1 and 2 (and may be for the ethernet one also) It seems to work using : netcam_url http://cam_ip/still.jpg But there is some strange bugs ...
How To Patch pwc 9.0.x / pwcx 9.0 on Kernel 2.6.7 (and probably later) The following how to was originally posted on the Motion Mailing List. Note that there is now ...
Howto use Motion with pwc port in FreeBSD Get the pwc port cd /usr/ports/multimedia/pwcbsd/ make install kldload pwc ( now plug your webcam, if it's plugged then ...
Banlist and Blacklist Some people have tried to create a local mirror of this Motion Wiki using tools like HTTrack. You cannot do that. Wiki pages are full of links ...
IPv6 Support Description of Patch This patch adds support for IPv6 to Motion. The 'local' options, which before bound on localhost, now will bind on the appropriate ...
Motion Script Collection Image Culling and Watchdog Introduction This is a collection of scripts that I've thrown together to support my full time security monitoring ...
Improve alg_draw_location() Introduction Avoid to calculate same values each time inside loops. Description of Patch This patch just does a little improvement ...
Improved Labelling Patch Introduction Experiments making labeling find all labels larger than threshold instead of only the largest. Description of Patch Today, ...
How do I install Motion? Motion is mainly distributed as source files that you must compile yourself. There is also an RPM made on Fedora Core 3. And Debian packages ...
Intuitive Option Names Discussion One day I am going to upset off a lot of you all my renaming many of the original Motion options. (hopefully you will later forgive ...
KED's Motion Tools Introduction A few tools made for my own motion usage but maybe other can make use of it or get some inspiration. I'll start with three tools ...
Kenneth's step by step instructioncustom kernel with PWC 10.0.4 and K8000 I am writing this for my own use. But others may use it for inspiration. I am building my ...
Kenneth's Custom Kernel With PWC 10.0.7 and Velleman K8000 on Fedora Core 4 How to install pwc in Fedora core 4 AND get Velleman K8000 working. Velleman requires a ...
Kenneth's Nerdometer An tool to measure the nerd factor. 0 is the ideal. No trace of nerdiness. And 10 is an absolute disaster. This Nerdometer and its nerd factor ...
Kenneth's Webcam Package Introduction This is a package that contains the configuration files for the webcam program motion and the Perl and PHP programs that Kenneth ...
Kevin's Motion Webpages created in PHP Introduction This web interface for motion allowing for 4 camera's to be viewed with Firefox and Internet Explorer. I suggest ...
Known Problems See also the Frequently Asked Questions and Bug Reports for known open bugs. Kernel 2.6 and pwc. Note that for kernel 2.6 there is a new release ...
Labeling Speed Improvement Patch Introduction This patch improves the speed of the alg_labeling function substantially. It also fixed a bug in said function. Description ...
Motion Legacy Archive Old recommended revisions for reference. It is recommended to download the latest release 3.2 motion 3.2.10.tar.gz motion 3.2.9.tar.gz motion ...
libjpeg mmx patch Introduction I use motion for a webcam streaming server only with 3 cam's on an old Pentium 233 MMX with 3 frames per second (one usb pwc and ...
libv4lconvert support Description of Patch Added libv4lconvert support to motion , to allow libv4l handle convertion of palettes not yet supported in motion. Installation ...
Links to Working Webcams driven by Motion You are very welcome to add a link and short description of your webcam below. Kenneth Lavrsen's Webcam Kenneth Lavrsen ...
For WVC200 see LinksysWVC200SupportPatch Linksys WVC54GCA Wireless network camera .. works perfectly fine with motion. It's a very small and inexpensive cam, around ...
NSLU2 NSLU2 (Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives) Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 Linux official development page : http://www.nslu2 linux ...
Patch adding MJPEG stream support for Linksys WVC200 IP Camera. Description of Patch The Linksys WVC200 IP Camera uses a particular system for transmitting MJPEG ...
Patch for support Motion tracking feature with linux uvc devices Description of Patch To enable tracking for Logitech Quickcam Sphere (046d:08c2) which use linux ...
Linux Video Surveillance eLViS Linux Video Surveillance AKA eLViS provides a user interface for watching motion frames captured by the motion program as JPEG files ...
Log preview image as different type as jpeg Description of Patch I had a problem when I wanted to save all motion pictures and still have a event preview picture ...
Logging Event Fix Description of Patch This patch will improve upon a few ambiguous log messages which may be emitted by the Event handling code with regards to Ffmpeg ...
Logging Ffmpeg Fix Description of Patch This patch will fix some erroneous log messages which may be emitted by the Ffmpeg handling code. There are some log entries ...
Controlling a Logitech Sphere pan/tilt with Motion. To be able to control the Logitech Sphere you need one of the latest versions of the pwc driver. And you also need ...
Video4Linux Loopback Device You can use this driver for looking at motion in realtime. The video4linux driver is written by the same author that first created Motion ...
Patch Title Lossless Encoding Introduction This patch gives motion the capability to encode videos using a lossless codec. Description of Patch This patch adds ...
MacOSX Motion now also supports MacOSX with similar feature set as FreeBSD but only supports network cameras at the moment. Requirements * autoconf 2.57 or above ...
MacOSX Port ( Already included in motion 3.2.4 ) Introduction MacOSX is based in FreeBSD 5.0 , so it's not hard to do a port of motion using the existing FreeBSD ...
Mailing List Motion has its own mailing list at Sourceforge: The mails address is /motion user.png Posting can be done by mailing list members only. You can subscribe ...
Make When you run make, all the C source files are automatically compiled and linked. Just look out for error messages. Make uses a file called "Makefile" which is ...
Makemask external program for mask making Description of Patch I wrote this program to take multiple images, looks for areas of change, then create a mask file that ...
Makefile with Auto Dependencies Introduction Ok, so this isn't really a patch. It's a new Makefile.in that automatically calculates dependencies between source and ...
Marvell 88ALP01 "cafe" CMOS camera This is the camera on the first generation One Laptop Per Child units, beginning with B Test 1, also known as the Childrens' Machine ...
Measurenoise Author: Folkert van Heusden Upload here by: Main.KennethLavrsen Original URL for project: http://www.vanheusden.com/measurenoise/ Check the original site ...
Find Memory Leaks in Motion Why that is important ? Any program that use dynamic allocation of memory ( malloc , calloc , etc ... ) , should free it when that memory ...
Flip image in X axis Description of Patch Mirrored image is feature of most car rear view cameras. This patch does not spend any additional CPU time, rotate functions ...
Miscellaneous Information An index of topics related to Motion that does not fit in any other bucket. Developers Info See also topics under RoadMap * Motion ...
Mjpeg (V4L2_PIX_FMT_MJPEG) Description of Patch Replacement for current implentation of V4L2_PIX_FMT_MJPEG palette for webcams (uvcvideo tested) to fix color issues ...
Mjpeg Frame Grabber PHP scripts Introduction This topic is actually a refactoring of some good inputs from MjpegProxyGrab topic. It is for the moment two scripts ...
PHP script to grab, proxy, resample and combine from mjpeg streams Introduction This script has 2 clearly seperated functions and is easy to figure out. It will proxy ...
MJPEG ProxyGrab Introduction Two small cgi programs written in C which can either grab an image or proxy the mjpeg stream from a Motion webcam. Detailed Description ...
Python MJPEG Proxy, resizer and recompression CGI Introduction This CGI proxy can resize and recompress a mjpeg stream. It is very handy when you have webcams or ...
MJPEG Sniffer Introduction Small C program that connected to an MJPEG stream and saves the raw data (first 100k) in a file. And a Perl nph cgi program which can play ...
mjpegtoyuv420p patch for Logitech Quickcam Pro Description of Patch Posted by Main.KennethLavrsen from posting on MailingList Hi To use my Logitech Quickcam Pro for ...
View Motion Mjpeg Streams as a Screensaver Introduction This is my attempt to create a screensaver for Windows written in C# that will display several Motion Mjpeg ...
Convert v4l2 to mjpeg stream Introduction mjpg_streamer takes input from a v4l2 device and streams it in a format compatible with motion Detailed Description Run ...
Motion And Vloopback video.c Patch Submitted by Main.KennethLavrsen on behalf of William M Brack Introduction This patch is supposed to work with the new version ...
Motion PHP Interface Introduction This is a PHP web application that allows you to browse through all events recorded by motion and watch / download the respective ...
Motion.cgi Introduction Motion.cgi is a set of scripts intended to give a user remote (or local) access to motion through any webbrowser. Detailed Description Motion ...
Motion.c Maintenance and Bugfix Patch Introduction This patch does not add any functionality to Motion. It simply cleans up motion.c by adding function documentation ...
(Motion Cam Viewer for Windows) /motioncamviewertoy.jpg What is it ? A piece of software that allows you to view the mjpeg streams (live video) from the cameras ...
Software that allows you to view the motion Web streams (live video) from the cameras connected to your motion server using the MS windows platform Introduction The ...
Motion's Cnt Structure Overview of all the fields List of all variable within the cnt structure. If the variable itself is a structure it should link to a table ...
Motion Code Webcam This topic is describes the code that makes up the Motion webcam feature. Not completed yet It is created so that one does not have to re invent ...
Motion Coding Standard Please download the attached document and view it in an editor showing both spaces and tabs to really understand the text. The document will ...
THIS IS STILL ONLY A PROPOSAL!! Formatting rules for Motion code. Version 2.0 15 Jul 2008 Note: To understand them you must view this document with spaces and tabs ...
Motion Conf Addition Patch Introduction adds conf options to bind to a single IP address, an another config option to create a PID file Description of Patch For ...
Spanish Version of motion dist.conf This topic is still in preparation # Renombrar este ejemplo a motion.conf # # Este archivo de configuración fué generado por motion ...
Windows GUI to edit the motion config files /motionconfigtoy.jpg An effort to see how many parameters can graphically fit in a 640 x 480 screen before becoming to ...
MotionControl Description It is very similar to the motion control program that used the old XmlRpcApi. The difference is that it uses the new MotionHttpAPI. The ...
Motion Cookie Patch Description of Patch Patch to add the cookies to the stream request from a IP cam. Allows to use stupid Chinese IP cameras with authentication ...
Motion Current Design Description In order to discuss a "new" design for the Motion architecture, I think it is useful to start with a diagram of the existing architecture ...
Daily Snapshot from the subversion trunk Each night at 3:10 UTC a snapshot of the current sources of the trunk is stored. These are used for developers to be able ...
Motion Event Mailer in PHP Introduction Simple Php which compresses and mails event pictures at the end of an event Tired of logging onto your website to see what ...
Examples * Image file saved by using the output_normal option (colour USB camera) * Image file saved by using the output_motion option. The picture shows ...
Feature List for Motion Some of motion's features include: * Taking snapshots of movement * Watch multiple video devices at the same time * Watch multiple ...
Motion Frame Buffer Technique Kenneth needs a place to put this info while developing the code. And why not share it on TWIki. Not completed at all.. Variables used ...
Motion Guide for Motion version 3.2.12 To make the navigation quicker and the Guide easier to overview the Motion Guide is now split in more smaller sections. ...
Legacy Motion Guide for Motion version 3.1.17 This is the version of the Motion Guide that matches release 3.1.17 of Motion. It is a snapshot of how the Guide looked ...
Legacy Motion Guide for Motion versions 3.1.18 3.1.20 This is the version of the Motion Guide that matches releases from 3.1.18 till 3.1.20 of Motion. It is a snapshot ...
Motion Guide Basic Features This topic consists of the following subtopics: CaptureDeviceOptions, MotionDetectionSettings, ImageFileOutput, TuningMotion, MpegFilmsFFmpeg ...
Motion Guide Getting It Running This topic consists of the following subtopics: RunningMotionConfigFiles, CommandLineOptions, ConfigFileOptions, SignalsKill, ErrorLogging ...
Motion Guide Installation This topic consists of the following subtopics: MotionOverview, KnownProblems, InstallOverview, PrepareInstall, ConfigureScript, MakeInstall ...
Motion Guide One Large Document. This version of the Guide is made for inclusion in the Motion download package for off line reading. If you read this document from ...
Motion Guide Special Features This topic consists of the following subtopics: TrackingControl, UsingDatabases, LoopbackDevice. Main.KennethLavrsen 13 Apr 2005 ...
API for HTTP Interface for Motion Output Modes The HTTP Interface have two output modes : * HTML : To use it from a web browser. * RAW : To easily be parsed ...
HTTP Interface for Motion Introduction This document is a first proposal and not at all complete for a http interface to control motion , it will replace xmlrpc ...
Motion In The Media * Motion burglar capture example from the BBC News * Same story: Additional from BBC * Linux Journal January 2005 Article now public ...
MotionJpegViewer Introduction A http GUI written in PHP. Motion creates jpegs. This php files creates a GUI that you can navigate in the jpegs using a timeline ...
Motion compiled as a Library * It would be nice to have makefiles and sources that can compile both a motion library and a motion executable (maybe the executable ...
Motion Logging Description Motion uses syslog for logging messages, but also stderr when it runs in no deamon mode. Only running motion in no damon mode allows to ...