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.

In motion.conf I have selected: "ffmpeg_video_codec ffv1"

According to the documentation this should produce a file using the FFV1 lossless codec.

However in actual practice it creates an .avi containing a video stream using the FFLV (ie. Flash Video) codec.

The relevant bits of my motion.conf are:

ffmpeg_cap_new on
ffmpeg_cap_motion off
ffmpeg_timelapse 0
ffmpeg_bps 500000
ffmpeg_variable_bitrate 2
ffmpeg_video_codec ffv1


Motion version: 3.2.11-2ubuntu0.1

Environment

Motion version:	3.2.11.2
ffmpeg version:	SVN-r19352-4:0.5+svn20090706-2ubuntu2
Shared libraries:	ffmpeg, postgresql, libavcodec-extra-52, libavformat-extra-52, libavutil-extra-49, libjpeg62
Server OS:	Ubuntu Server 9.10

-- TobyCorkindale - 13 Apr 2010

Follow up

Please check out svn version for 3.2 branch where i added a patch to fix this.

mkdir motion-3.2

cd motion-3.2
svn co http://www.lavrsen.dk/svn/motion/branches/3.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
/usr/local/bin/motion -c /etc/motion.conf

-- AngelCarpintero - 15 Apr 2010

Fix record

Released in SVN / GIT

-- AngelCarpintero - 03 Jun 2012