Feature List for Motion

• Taking snapshots of movement
• Watch multiple video devices at the same time
• Watch multiple inputs on one capture card at the same time
• Live streaming webcam (using multipart/x-mixed-replace)
• Real time creation of mpeg movies using libraries from ffmpeg
• Take automated snapshots on regular intervals
• Take automated snapshots at irregular intervals using cron
• Execute external commands when detecting movement (and e.g. send SMS or email)
• Motion tracking (camera follow motion - special hardware required)
• Feed events to a MySQL or PostgreSQL database.
• Feed video back to a video4linux loopback for real time viewing
• Lots of user contributed related projects with web interfaces etc.
• User configurable and user defined on screen display.
• Control via browser (older versions used xml-rpc)
• Automatic noise and threshold control
• Motion is a daemon with low CPU consumption and small memory footprint.