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
[0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3357696 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3412224
[0] Thread 1 is from /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
[1] Thread 1 started
[1] cap.driver: "spca561"
[1] cap.card: "Camera"
[1] cap.bus_info: "0000:00:13.2"
[1] cap.capabilities=0x05000001
[1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] - READWRITE
[1] - STREAMING
[1] Supported palettes:
[1] 0: S561 (S561)
[1] 1: GBRG (GBRG)
[1] Unable to find a compatible palette format.
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.11 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] Using VIDEO_PALETTE_YUV420P palette
[1] Using V4L1
[1] Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
[1] Started stream webcam server in port 8081
[1] sync error in proc 6536: Invalid argument
[1] mcapture error in proc 6536: Invalid argument
[1] Video device fatal error - Closing video device
[1] Closing video device /dev/video0

I'm doing this on Mandriva 2009 (kernel version 2.6.27).

On Ubuntu it was working (using V4L1, in Ubuntu Hardy Heron (kernel version 2.6.24)). I asked for help on the IRC channel, and got a patch from sack (it can be found here: http://pastebin.com/m443bdc62). It got it working (although not with the best quality, but the errors magically were gone). Motion was installed from source.

Thank you in advance for solving this issue!

-- BadanSergiu - 15 Oct 2008

Follow up

Attached a quick patch to allow use bayer compressed format included in drivers from kernel 2.6.27.

Get motion-3.2.11-V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGBRG8-hack.diff.gz

cp  motion-3.2.11-V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGBRG8-hack.diff.gz motion-3.2.11/.
gunzip  motion-3.2.11-V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGBRG8-hack.diff.gz
patch -p0 <  V4L2_PIX_FMT_SGBRG8-hack.diff
make  

-- AngelCarpintero - 15 Oct 2008

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Included in svn trunk -r433

-- AngelCarpintero - 18 Oct 2008

Comments

Thank you!

-- BadanSergiu - 22 Oct 2008

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