Motion - Web Changes

500 recent changes in Motion Web retrieved at 02:47 (GMT)

FeatureRequest2005x12x24x200321
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 ...
r3 - 30 May 2006 - 09:55 by MikeMullins
SupportQuestion2006x05x27x123932
Question Thanks for your reply to question 2006x05x23x092215. Sorry to bother you again, I can't get the nph mjprox to work. In your applet snippet, you state cam...
CreateBugReport
#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...
ExecProxyPatch
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 ...
BugReport2006x05x24x003214
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 drive...
r3 - 24 May 2006 - 09:16 by JeromeV
FeatureRequest2005x12x11x010729
Feature Request: Description consider support of as a replacement for current motion detection scheme: Gandalf Library http://gandalf library.sourceforge.net/ G...
BugReport2006x05x23x092100
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 cha...
BugReport2006x03x04x110846
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 p...
SupportQuestion2006x05x23x092215
Question I use motion with three simultaneous bttv cams with three threads. I'd like to stream one of them at any one time on the same port, say 8080. Initial web...
SupportQuestion2006x05x23x081859
Question Currently there are two types of masks in motion. A "fixed mask" and an internal "smart mask". In the sections "smart_mask_speed" and "mask_file" in the ...
BugReport2005x11x22x172816
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 ...
r11 - 22 May 2006 - 18:31 by PeterS
BugReport2006x05x16x085444
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 (...
r2 - 16 May 2006 - 21:54 by AngelCarpintero
SupportEditTemplate
%NOP{ * Note: Do not edit this topic, ask a question in WebHome * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.TWikiAdminGroup }% Question Environment Motion version: ...
SupportQuestion2006x05x13x092955
Question when i started motion ,, following error appeared fyc@fyc:/dev$ motion 0 Processing thread 0 config file /usr/local/etc/motion.conf 0 Motion runnin...
LoggingFfmpegFix
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 ent...
MotionRss
MotionRss Introduction Creates RSS feed of the contents of your movies directory. Detailed Description Whenever a new movie is recorded, the RSS feed will be up...
NEW - 09 May 2006 - 09:48 by FlorianBeer
KedMotionTools
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...
r3 - 01 May 2006 - 11:23 by TheOtherBug
MotionClient
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 ...
FeatureRequest2006x04x30x214936
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 effor...
FeatureRequest2006x04x23x101111
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...
r3 - 27 Apr 2006 - 06:12 by AngelCarpintero
FeatureRequest2006x04x19x082734
Feature Request: Description The present autobrightness function (in v4l_picture_controls) merely changes the device brightness to ensure that the average pixel...
r3 - 25 Apr 2006 - 15:50 by MikeScott
FeatureRequest2006x04x20x104836
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 ge...
NEW - 20 Apr 2006 - 10:53 by MarkTranchant
SupportQuestion2006x04x10x163136
Question I have an Axis network camera monitoring a small street. However, there is a small piece of a busy street visible, which I want to mask out. I made a mas...
r7 - 17 Apr 2006 - 19:53 by AngelCarpintero
BugReport2006x03x19x124345
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 uninterr...
SupportQuestion2006x04x14x233058
Question I have experimented with the control_localhost (on/off) settings with the following results: CASE 1 (all other motion.conf settings remain at default val...
BugReport2006x04x14x093732
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 corr...
MpegFilmsFFmpeg
Generating MPEG films with ffmpeg The ffmpeg option can generate mpeg films very fast and "on the fly". This means that the mpeg film is growing each time motion ...
r7 - 14 Apr 2006 - 03:51 by PeterKim
FeatureRequest2006x04x08x080625
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 ...
FeatureRequest2005x03x31x225825
Feature Request: Description See my answer on SupportQuestion2005x01x03x114817 See also discussion topic MotionWatchdog. Main.KennethLavrsen 31 Mar 2005 Fo...
r5 - 05 Apr 2006 - 20:41 by MichaelHarris
BugReport2006x04x02x150440
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_t...
r3 - 05 Apr 2006 - 14:32 by AngelCarpintero
FeatureRequest2006x04x03x223638
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 info...
FeatureRequest2005x04x21x052017
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 a...
FeatureRequest2006x04x03x122941
Feature Request: Description In addition to an event, an event frame parameter could be implemented. This will function similiarly to %q which uniquely identifi...
NEW - 03 Apr 2006 - 14:27 by JoeBush
PwcConfiguration
Small patch adding pwc configuration options Description of Patch The patch adds 3 configuration options to control the behavior of the pwc tracking code. Our Lo...
r7 - 02 Apr 2006 - 17:39 by JoeBush
FeatureRequest2006x03x16x095713
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 suggestio...
VIAEzraC3Patch
Fix for VIA Ezra C3 CPUs Description of Patch Neither Motion 3.2.4 nor the daily build would run on my VIA Ezra 10000 CPU. It killed as as soon as it attempted ...
MotionffmpegDeinterlace
Deinterlace video input Description of Patch Motion will deinterlace frame before put them to file Installation of Patch Download the patch file. If it is packe...
FixTypoInComments
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 e...
FixStringsAndDisableLabeling
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...
ReleaseNoteMotion3x2x5
Motion Release Release Notes Motion release 07 Mar 2005 Summary of changes since 3.2.4 3.2.5.1 is the exact same code as 3.2.5 but with manpage and Motion...
r5 - 14 Mar 2006 - 17:39 by TheOtherBug
BugReport2006x03x11x162137
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 o...
r3 - 12 Mar 2006 - 18:12 by GregSwift
SupportQuestion2006x03x11x212019
Question I know this is the wrong place to post this question, but I was not sure of where the correct place was. Many people, including Kenneth Lavrsen, have suc...
SupportQuestion2006x03x11x141352
Question when trying to compile i've got this message, could someone point me ? TIA Compiling Motion object files... gcc g O2 DHAVE_MYSQL I /usr/include/mysq...
BugReport2006x02x07x162149
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 s...
SupportQuestion2006x03x02x152208
Question Hi I have the same problem that was seen in http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x08x02x070017 and i have been taking a look in the m...
r8 - 05 Mar 2006 - 20:30 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2006x01x30x191510
Question Small and cheap netcam market intellinet or edimax ic 1000 in compatibility. I found a small piece of tcl code (http://gem.win.co.nz/mb/misc/edicam/) whi...
r3 - 02 Mar 2006 - 07:24 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2006x01x03x071110
Question Hello, I would like to adapt Motion's motion tracking features for a stepper motor project I'm working on. I would appreciate clarification on some of t...
r2 - 02 Mar 2006 - 07:22 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2005x12x09x000832
Question I'm using a Quickcam VC as well as a Quickcam Messenger. The VC, which is black and white, works fine in gqcam through the v4l interface, but in motion t...
r3 - 02 Mar 2006 - 06:53 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2005x09x27x201828
Question Hello Kenneth I tried 3.2.4.snap2 as you recommended but the problem still remains. With switchfilter on no one motion is detected. motion version moti...
r8 - 02 Mar 2006 - 06:52 by AngelCarpintero
BugReport2006x02x23x163414
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 g...
r2 - 28 Feb 2006 - 23:29 by AngelCarpintero
BugReport2006x02x28x192111
BUG: See support question SupportQuestion2006x02x24x095024 webcam_localhost setting in config file is ignored. Seen to be set to "off" in web interface even whe...
r2 - 28 Feb 2006 - 23:08 by AngelCarpintero
FeatureRequest2006x02x24x101604
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 s...
r2 - 27 Feb 2006 - 19:55 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2006x02x24x113246
Question The %t (thread number) conversion specifier doesn't work in text_left or text_right. Was this introduced in 3.2.4 or have I discovered something earth s...
r2 - 27 Feb 2006 - 19:52 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2006x02x24x095024
Question I've got 3 cams webcam_localhost is specifically set to 'off' in 2 of the 3 threads and specifically set to 'on' in the third. It is not set at all in m...
r2 - 27 Feb 2006 - 19:49 by AngelCarpintero
BugReport2006x02x23x185553
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...
MotionHttpControl
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...
BugReport2005x12x21x110709
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 ...
BugReport2006x01x26x153153
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,...
SupportQuestion2006x02x13x145236
Question I have six network cameras with the global config option set: snapshot_interval 60 I currently control which ones are doing motion detection using the we...
r2 - 14 Feb 2006 - 03:46 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2006x02x07x165228
Question Hello. I'm using the Ubuntu Breezy standard version of motion, which is 3.2.3. Everything appears to work fine with the default config (which does not sa...
SimpleSunriseSunsetScript
Quite simply, starts and stops motion based on sunrise and sunset Introduction This is a simple script using Sunwait (Dan Risacher) What does it do? Starts moti...
NEW - 10 Feb 2006 - 15:19 by JimLimmer
FeatureRequest2006x01x09x142543
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 multip...
r2 - 10 Feb 2006 - 14:15 by AngelCarpintero
MotionCamViewerToy
(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 c...
r17 - 10 Feb 2006 - 09:56 by NikoMsj
BugReport2004x12x20x085650
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 connect...
MotionGuide3x1x17
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 loo...
FeatureRequest2006x02x03x145349
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 c...
NEW - 03 Feb 2006 - 14:56 by AlfredoMarchini
VideoPaletteConfigOptionPatch
VideoPaletteConfigOptionPatch Introduction I receieved this patch via email from a Russian user. Description of Patch From original email. I have ivc 200 captur...
FeatureRequest2006x01x12x192350
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 ...
SupportQuestion2006x01x25x155240
Question I just upgraded to 3.2.4, because for some reason my old version wasn't loading more than 2 thread files, and I had just added a 2nd Axis 210 camera. Now...
r6 - 01 Feb 2006 - 20:12 by RossReed
ShowCgiShellScript
show cgi Author: Main.JeroenVreeken Submitted by. Main.KennethLavrsen A simple web interface for showing captured images. Depends on the chosen filename format in...
r2 - 31 Jan 2006 - 20:58 by JimLimmer
FeatureRequest2006x01x14x111053
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...
BugReport2006x01x26x180056
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, ca...
SupportQuestion2006x01x09x202952
Question 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...
SupportQuestion2006x01x10x075037
Question hello, I want change the square of detection (in screen) in other form for example : a cross is it possible? Thanks for your answer Environment Motio...
FeatureRequest2006x01x14x174924
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...
MotionEventMailer
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 wha...
r6 - 14 Jan 2006 - 08:50 by AngelCarpintero
BugReport2005x12x19x213255
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 ...
r13 - 02 Jan 2006 - 17:34 by PeterS
MotionSourceTree
Motion Source Tree Take a sneak preview of the current Motion sources. What is Kenneth up to? Beware this code is often incomplete or broken.
SupportQuestion2005x01x03x114817
Question motion 3.1.17 on kernel 2.4.21 243 I'm using a logitech quickcam, using the module quickcam, however this can be applied to any video devices i'm using (...
RemoteControlHttp
Remote Control with http Motion can be remote controlled via a simple http interface. http is the language a normal web browser talks when it requests a web page....
UsbvisionDriverPatchFourInputs
usbvision driver patch for 4 inputs USB 1.x capture device Introduction Using this patch for the usbvision driver provides the full functionality in motion for t...
DailyFileStoreScript
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 Descr...
ShellKeepAliveScript
Shell Keep Alive Script Introduction Simple shell script called from cron that checks and keeps motion running. Detailed Description In my setup I call this scr...
ConversionSpecifiers
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,...
SupportQuestion2005x12x21x014647
Question I'd like to know if it is possible to use the parallel port rather than using the serial one, to control a stepper motor. The circuit is simple, just a p...
WebhttpEnhancements
Patches to enhance webhttpd Description of Patch boolselect.diff I wanted to have a selectbox instead of a textfield for changing boolean configs Installation o...
ThreadNrTlsPatch
Threadnr in TLS patch Introduction The last days or so, we discussed TLS on IRC (sorry, logger was down so no reference to the discussion). Basically, TLS (threa...
ThreadConversionSpecifierPatch
Implements the %t as conv spec for thread number Description of Patch See %t in ExtendReplaceConversionSpecifiersDiscussion added by Main.KennethLavrsen for Ange...
SQLEventLogging
SQL Event Logging Introduction This patch adds an extra field to the SQL database when entries added. The field is called 'event_time_stamp' and is the time stam...
RotateSimplificationPatch
Simplication of the Rotate Feature Description of Patch As of Motion 3.2.4 snap1, there is a check that the input image dimensions (both width and height) are ev...
ReduceWarningsPatch
A patch for lesser warnings when compiled with with developer flags Description of Patch This patch is a follow up to the new with developer flags option for c...
NetcamWithFtpEnhancements
Netcam With Ftp Enhancements Asbjørn Pettersen sent to mailing list some comments about the NetcamWithFTP patch. Descripton of Patch Here there's a patch tha...
NetcamWithFTP
Add capability to connect to FTP server as well as HTTP server Description of Patch At least one netcam (the Dlink 2000) does not allow fetching an image with th...
NetcamFixPthreadInit
Fix Initialisation of Pthread Structures Description of Patch The released Netcam code should do some of it's initialisation at an earlier point within the code....
NetcamFixPixordBug
Enhancement to Netcam Code for Connection to Pixord Cameras Description of Patch This patch fixes a bug in the netcam code, which can cause a segfault, when a Pi...
DrawTextspeedup
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 ...
BetterFFmpegDetection
enhanced ffmpeg detection Description of Patch This patch tries to enhance the detection of ffmpeg libraries and headers in configure.in . Installation of Patch...
FeatureRequest2005x12x01x130934
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...
MacOSXPatch
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...
r8 - 19 Dec 2005 - 08:42 by AngelCarpintero
FeatureRequest2005x10x21x025159
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 u...
FeatureRequest2005x10x21x024904
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 ...
FeatureRequest2005x11x05x192736
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 ...
BugReport2005x09x15x185558
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 sim...
BugReport2005x10x05x212444
BUG: Many have reported that the switchfilter option disables the motion detection completely Test case Activate feature and try and detect motion Environment ...
BugReport2005x09x28x031852
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 f...
BugReport2005x11x13x115016
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 reintr...
BugReport2005x12x02x082809
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 moti...
BugReport2005x10x29x072220
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 fil...
BugReport2005x12x08x161936
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...
ReleaseNoteMotion3x2x4
Motion Release Release Notes Motion release 18 Dec 2005 Summary of changes since 3.2.3 Features * New text option text_event and new conversion specifi...
BugReport2005x12x15x022643
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 datab...
MakeInstall
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 i...
MacOSX
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 ab...
r2 - 13 Dec 2005 - 00:16 by AngelCarpintero
AdvancedFilenames
Advanced Filenames Motion has a very advanced and flexible automated filenaming feature. By using conversion specifiers (codes that consist of a '%' followed by...
TextFeatures
Text Features Text features are highly flexible. You can taylor the text displayed on the images and films to your taste and you can add your own user defined t...
SupportQuestion2005x12x09x233702
Question I have installed kernel 2.6.14.3 and compiled it to also support my SAA7134 (FlyVideo3000) card. I'm also fairly sure that the modprobe that was passed ...
r4 - 12 Dec 2005 - 23:30 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2005x12x02x153609
Question still points to 3.2.3 1 Environment Motion version: 3.2.3 2 ffmpeg version: Libraries: ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql ...
SupportQuestion2005x11x04x064358
Question This is the error msg i try to start motion Failed to open video loopback I have this in my thread config file #camera 1 videodevice /dev/video0 target_d...
FeatureRequest2005x09x21x094025
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 ...
r9 - 30 Nov 2005 - 07:51 by AngelCarpintero
BugReport2005x10x08x192350
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 S...
BugReport2005x11x08x140111
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 ... *...
FeatureRequest2005x10x20x210336
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. Betwe...
FeatureRequest2005x10x05x195353
Feature Request: Description Logging of startups and captured events should go to syslog service. Even capturing logs on another machine makes sense in a headle...
MotionRelease3x2x4snap5
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 13 Nov 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.3 snap1 * Removed all warnings originating from the motion sourc...
SupportGuidelines
Motion Support Guidelines Motion support is provided by users and developers in their spare time nobody is paid to do this. So it's important that you provide ...
FeatureRequest2005x11x06x102138
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. Th...
SupportQuestion2005x11x06x141113
Question I made a script to send pictures captured by motion to another machine through ftp. Normally the command line argument is called $1 in the script. When I...
SupportQuestion2005x11x03x104436
Question when i start motion, i get this error msg Unkown config option: "ffmpeg_cap_new" Unkown config option: "ffmpeg_timelaps" config_thread thread config file...
FeatureRequest2005x09x26x003103
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 th...
MotionRelease3x2x4snap4
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 30 Oct 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.3 snap1 * Removed all warnings originating from the motion sourc...
SupportQuestion2005x10x26x182813
Question I have a freshly built motion (3.2.3), on a Mandrake 10.1 machine (a Via Mini ITX). When launched, I get output that ends with: " 0 Motion going to da...
r7 - 30 Oct 2005 - 12:31 by AngelCarpintero
ExtendReplaceConversionSpecifiersDiscussion
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...
SupportQuestion2005x10x20x202142
Question I have a BT878 Decoder, two cams attached and third cam via Network, controlled by motion. All running on Linux SuSE 9.2, no probs so far, except with in...
SupportQuestion2005x10x27x202540
Question Hello, I've got some trouble using a WIFI ipcam with "netcam_url" using "http://xxx.xxx.x.x/picture.jpg" (not able to use "http://xxx.xxx.x.x/video.cgi"...
FeatureRequest2005x10x25x093244
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 l...
r3 - 26 Oct 2005 - 09:10 by MadsenWikholm
SupportQuestion2005x10x26x001815
Question I would know if this version of Motion record sound from sound card. Best reguards. Francesco Capolupo (Italy) Environment Motion version: 3.2.3 ...
SupportQuestion2005x06x26x073118
Question Has anyone created any init.d scripts for starting and stopping a daemonized motion? Environment Motion version: 3.1.9 ffmpeg version: ...
r3 - 23 Oct 2005 - 22:43 by AxelAmthor
BugReport2005x10x22x113641
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...
SupportQuestion2005x09x20x190455
Question I have a problem where the webcam keeps flickering periodically to set off the motion mechanism. I don't want this to happen. This is not a hardware prob...
PatchEditTemplate
Description of Patch Installation of Patch Download the patch file. If it is packed as a gz or tar.gz unpack it first. Then copy it to the motion source director...
SupportQuestion2005x10x18x185340
Question Do you know what gives the best results for captured jpg on motion? 1. USB camera with decent 640x480 CCD such as Toucam Pro? or 2. PAL CCTV connected to...
SupportQuestion2005x10x18x184832
Question Just wondered if Motion/pwc can support this or if you know of another true 1.3M camera? With thanks Ian Environment Motion version: 3.2.3 ...
MotionPluginConfigFileSpecification
The Master Example Motion Config File The config file requirements * Format is plain text. Options are loaded with "option value". One option per line. ...
MotionPluginAPI
Motion Plugin API This is the Application Programming Interface for plugins used in Motion 4 This topic is not complete at all. Introduction Conceptually, ther...
r6 - 09 Oct 2005 - 00:35 by BillBrack
MotionPluginConfigFileDiscussion
Motion Plugin Config File Discussion Motion 4.X will have a plugin interface. Plugins will handle input devices, make movies, etc etc. With the new plugin inter...
MotionRelease3x2x4snap3
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 08 Oct 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.3 snap1 * Removed all warnings originating from the motion sourc...
MotionPluginConfigFileDiscussionPluginOption
Motion Plugin Config File Discussion Plugin Option Refactored from MotionPluginConfigFileDiscussion The Loading of Plugins How do we load the plugins? Here we ...
MotionPluginConfigFileDiscussionXML
Motion Plugin Config File Discussion XML Refactored from MotionPluginConfigFileDiscussion Main.KennethLavrsen has already decided that XML will NOT be used so th...
MotionPluginConfigFileDiscussionNamingAndSections
Motion Plugin Config File Discussion Naming And Sections Refactored from MotionPluginConfigFileDiscussion Plugins So what about plugins. What if two plugins de...
MotionPluginConfigFileDiscussionCameraThreads
Motion Plugin Config File Discussion Camera Threads Refactored from MotionPluginConfigFileDiscussion Camera threads. Today the camera threads are defined by an o...
BugReport2004x10x24x140610
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' br...
r15 - 06 Oct 2005 - 15:21 by FredericLOIRETTE
MotionPluginRequirements
Motion Plugin Requirements This topic describes the basic requirements for the Motion plugin interface This topic is not finished yet. It is work in progress. An...
MotionPluginIndex
Motion Plugin Index This page is an index to the subjects that describes the new Motion plugin design. * PluginArchitectureDiscussion * MotionPluginRequirem...
r3 - 03 Oct 2005 - 02:22 by VincenzoDiMassa
MotionLibrary
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 executa...
r2 - 03 Oct 2005 - 02:18 by VincenzoDiMassa
PluginArchitectureDiscussion
Plugin Architecture Discussion Introduction This topic discusses a possible future plugin interface/architecture of Motion. MotionRearchitectureDiscussion contai...
MotionPluginDesign
Motion Plugin Design The design of the plugin interface should be described here. Make subtopics as needed. Graphics are a good thing. Main.KennethLavrsen 02 ...
MotionCurrentDesign
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 ar...
FeatureRequest2005x05x13x065852
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...
r7 - 30 Sep 2005 - 10:39 by GerardSoldevila
SupportQuestion2005x09x27x073342
Question I have installed the motion 3.2.3 and found that switchfilter on (or 1 or yes) does not detect any motion though the CHANGELOG file shows that this bug w...
SupportQuestion2005x09x20x215403
Question I seem to have come across another problem when I place the camera out in day light, I am getting washed out images. How do I fix this problem? Environm...
SupportQuestion2005x09x21x081542
Question i want to use motion as a webserver to stream live video from my web camera to my LAN, i don't know what paramters to setup, although having read manual...
r2 - 21 Sep 2005 - 17:35 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2005x09x13x190822
Question I work with the version 3.17 already a longer time. Motion works perfectly. I am very content. My video map is a Hauppauge video map with 2 entrances. N...
SupportQuestion2005x09x10x212129
Question Hi, I'm having a problem with Motion 3.2.3 that when it detects motion, it reports 'Segmentation Fault' and crashes: root@Kylie etc # /usr/local/bin/mot...
r3 - 11 Sep 2005 - 19:56 by ChrisHarris
EventConvertionSpecifierDiscussion
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 the...
r10 - 07 Sep 2005 - 01:37 by TimWegener
SupportQuestion2005x09x05x181729
Question Hi, I am currently running motion exclusively on an Athlon 1200 box with 384Mb RAM and all is very good thanks to your superb coding I don't use the ff...
CompileWithDeveloperFlags
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 confi...
MotionRelease3x2x4snap2
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 04 Sep 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.3 snap1 * Removed all warnings originating from the motion sourc...
FeatureRequest2005x04x21x054916
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 ...
FeatureRequest2005x06x30x014556
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...
FeatureRequest2005x05x26x234147
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 o...
r4 - 30 Aug 2005 - 15:45 by EijiOgata
FeatureRequest2005x07x17x062823
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 alternativ...
FeatureRequest2005x08x24x094843
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 ...
FeatureRequest2005x08x19x192733
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...
BugReport2005x07x14x172735
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, c...
MotionRelease3x2x4snap1
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 28 Aug 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.3 snap1 * Removed all warnings originating from the motion sourc...
OverviewOfThreadsInMotion
Overview Of Threads In Motion Motion is a complex program with many features. One of the difficult things to understand are the many threads that runs when you st...
SupportQuestion2005x08x24x000656
Question I am trying to stream the image from my camera plugged in to a pixelview playtv pro tv card, using bttv drivers. The .jpg images are coming out perfectly...
r2 - 24 Aug 2005 - 02:15 by AngelCarpintero
NTP
NTP server Introduction ntp syncs your computer to a GPS, DCF77 receiver or internethost giving the correct time. Detailed Description Attached Files Installa...
r2 - 21 Aug 2005 - 21:14 by AngelCarpintero
WaitForDevice
Wait For Device Introduction w4d is a small command line program which waits for a device to be available and then exits The idea is that you run this in your fo...
FeatureRequest2005x08x19x192356
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 ...
SupportQuestion2005x08x18x152208
Question I have a stock Fedora core 4 system, all packages are installed with yum. I installed motion 3.2.3 from the rpm available. I had everything working just ...
BugReport2005x08x15x160208
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 betw...
BugReport2005x08x15x140701
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...
BugReport2005x08x15x150416
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 f...
ReleaseNoteMotion3x2x3
Motion Release Release Notes Motion release 16 Aug 2005 Summary of changes since 3.2.2 Features Bugfix release only. No new features. Bugfixes * Fixed...
BugReport2005x08x04x220823
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 dir...
r5 - 16 Aug 2005 - 16:32 by BruceDurham
PatchForVersion
Patch for Motion Version The version of Motion for which this patch is made. It may work on earlier or later versions but this is the release that the patch was g...
PatchForm
Form Definition Patch Topics Name:* *Type: Size: Values: Tooltip message: PatchStatus select 1 PlannedPatch, PatchInProgress, PatchTesting, Rel...
BugReport2005x08x14x202757
BUG: Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled New Thread 1080705760 (LWP 21038) 0 Processing thread 0 config file /etc/motion 3.2.2/motion.conf 0 Pr...
FeatureRequest2005x08x07x134844
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 camer...
WebcamShortWriteHandlingPatch
Webcam Short Write Handling Patch Introduction The patch re implements the handling of so called "short writes" in the webcam code. This was broken in the implem...
TextScalingPatch
Text Scaling Patch Introduction This patch allows the text drawn on Motion images to be normal or double size. Description of Patch Based upon the previous patc...
RotateBswapFix
Rotate Bswap32 Fix Introduction This patch updates the rotate module (rotate.c) slighly. The most important fix is that the __bswap_32 macro has been remained to...
NetcamProxyServerPatch
Implementation of optional Proxy Server for Network Cameras Introduction It is rumoured that, when the netcam code was using Curl, it was possible to specify a p...
NetcamFirstHeader
NetcamFirstHeader Introduction I use motion 3.2.1 (only as streaming webserver) on an old Pentium with 2 cams. Then a second motion is running from my working d...
NetcamCodeRewritePatch
Netcam Code Rewrite Patch Introduction A complete rewrite of the Motion Netcam code. Patch topic created by Kenneth Lavrsen on behalf of Bill Brack. Description...
LibJpegMmx
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...
ImprovedLabellingPatch
Improved Labelling Patch Introduction Experiments making labeling find all labels larger than threshold instead of only the largest. Description of Patch Today,...
ImproveAlgDrawLocation
Improve alg_draw_location() Introduction Avoid to calculate same values each time inside loops. Description of Patch This patch just does a little improvem...
FramerateAdjust
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 momen...
FfmpegFrameRatePatch
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 hav...
ErrorLoggingEnhancementPatch
Enhanced error / information / debug message logging Introduction Throughout the different source modules, the logging of messages has quite a lot of different i...
DrawTextnImprovement
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 ca...
ConvertSignalToSigaction
Convert signal to sigaction Introduction Replace use of signal function by sigaction. Description of Patch Currently, motion is using signal() function. There i...
AvoidCleanupSegfault
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 chan...
NetcamErrorImprovementPatch
Changes to the "new" netcam code to improve error handling Introduction Discussion and ideas for improving the error handling in the netcam module are continuing...
MotionCMaintenancePatch
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 documenta...
FixStandardFunctionsParameters
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 us...
FfmpegCodecPatch
FFMpeg Codec Compilation Patch Introduction First, see the following bug report: BugReport2005x08x05x210647 The problem is that the codec field in struct AVStrea...
ReleaseNoteMotion3x2x2
Motion Release Release Notes Motion release 13 Aug 2005 Summary of changes since 3.2.1 Features * New completely rewritten netcam code. * Proxy serv...
BugReport2005x02x19x175939
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, sim...
BugReport2005x03x30x095935
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:...
BugReport2005x03x06x023010
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 Pa...
BugReport2005x08x05x210647
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 membe...
BugReport2005x08x05x173526
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 ...
SupportQuestion2005x07x01x074738
Question I have installed Motion on 3.2.1. on a Suse92 server. The webcam is logitich and works very well with PWC10. The only thing is that by default it sends o...
SupportQuestion2005x08x10x134348
Question I have 2 AXIS cameras setup, a 2100 and a 210, each with its own thread file. I am having a weird problem that sometimes I will get notified of motion ( ...
MotionRelease3x1x18snap10
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.18_snap10 Release Notes 3.1.18 snap10 15 Jan 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use We are very interested in ge...
MotionGuideInstallation
Motion Guide Installation This topic consists of the following subtopics: MotionOverview, KnownProblems, InstallOverview, PrepareInstall, ConfigureScript, MakeI...
NetcamWithoutLocking
NetcamWithoutLocking Introduction Current netcam uses locking (mutex) to protect buffers. I found now a way to eliminate this locks using an atomic function (xch...
r14 - 13 Aug 2005 - 08:25 by PeterHolik
MemoryLeaksInMotion
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 m...
MotionControl
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. Th...
r6 - 11 Aug 2005 - 10:53 by EmilB
SupportQuestion2005x08x09x110945
Question I have installed my motion with the webcam port 8081 active. I am using the cambozola applet.My problem is that I think that is insecure to have opened t...
SupportQuestion2005x06x02x143352
Question I installed Fedora Core 3 with 2.6.11 1.27_FC3 kernel, installed all the various RPM associated including Motion 3.2.1. Using a WinTV PVR 150 with ivtv...
SupportQuestion2005x08x10x004803
Question I have a PTZ camera..and am looking to talk direct to it using Pelco D protocol. Does anyone know how I can do this? I'm just using a Presario PC Enviro...
FeatureRequest2005x07x25x143052
Feature Request: Description i have ivc 200 capture card. This card working incorrect with VIDEO_PALETTE_YUV420P, but working fine wich VIDEO_PALETTE_YUV422. Pl...
MotionRelease3x2x2snap11
Motion Snapshot Release This release is not a release candidate but a developers code baseline sync release. Netcam recovery is known to be broken! Release Not...
SupportQuestion2005x08x05x094340
Question Hey, I've got my camera set up (using ov51x driver) and I'm able to get motion to work, saving images, detecting motion and creating an mpeg. To do that ...
NetcamRetryErrorDiscussion
Netcam and the Retry Scheme when having errors Discussion When should the netcam code give up? When should it retry? How often? How long? What messages should it ...
r16 - 09 Aug 2005 - 04:30 by BillBrack
SupportQuestion2005x08x08x033734
Question During compilation of 3.2.1 I kept getting a compilation error: ffmpeg.c line 426 __av_freep not defined... There were about ten of these errors on diffe...
MotionRelease3x2x2snap10
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 05 Aug 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.1 snap1 * Pthread deadlock in motion 3.2.1 fixed (Angel Carpinte...
BugReport2005x08x02x070017
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: c...
MotionRelease3x2x2snap9
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 03 Aug 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.1 snap1 * Pthread deadlock in motion 3.2.1 fixed (Angel Carpinte...
r2 - 02 Aug 2005 - 23:27 by AngelCarpintero
FeatureRequest2005x05x31x083439
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...
FeatureRequest2005x06x30x020826
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 t...
BugReport2005x08x01x150922
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 Thr...
BugReport2005x07x14x212356
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 ...
BugReport2005x05x26x125712
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 o...
NewDrawTextMethod
New Draw Text Method Introduction This patch is a new method for drawing characters on Motion frames. Description of Patch Previously, the function draw_textn h...
SupportQuestion2005x07x27x094302
Question hi to all, i'm working with motion version 3.0.4 and before I upgrade to latest version, i need work with that..... The problem is with mask... I have cr...
MotionRelease3x2x2snap8
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 01 Aug 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.1 snap1 * Pthread deadlock in motion 3.2.1 fixed (Angel Carpinte...
SupportQuestion2005x07x17x092359
Question I'm having a problem with frames being recorded out of sequence in both the ffmpeg generated video files and the jpeg snapshots. Timestamps go in order,...
BugReport2005x05x09x004056
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: ...
BugReport2005x03x23x203016
BUG: Motion.BugReport2005x01x30x190907 did not fix the compilation issue on certain VIA processors. When compiling for VIA Samuel 2, Ezra, Ezra T architectures ...
MotionRelease3x2x2snap7
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 17 Jul 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.1 snap1 * Pthread deadlock in motion 3.2.1 fixed (Angel Carpinte...
MotionConfAddition
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 Fo...
r9 - 16 Jul 2005 - 13:34 by EvilPete
SupportQuestion2005x07x14x150232
Question i'm planning to get a computer that dedicates on capturing from video for a security system. I'm planning on 4 leadtek tv tuner cards and each of them ha...
SignedUnsignedCharsInMotion
Signed and Unsigned Chars in Motion Safe means that the function works with both signed and unsigned. This topic was created to figure out what needed to be chang...
MotionRelease3x2x2snap6
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 13 Jul 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.1 snap1 * Pthread deadlock in motion 3.2.1 fixed (Angel Carpinte...
WebcamCodeOverview
Webcam Code Overview Webcam Defined in webcam.h The webcam_buffer struct references the picture that gets streamed struct webcam_buffer ^ unsigned char ...
BugReport2005x06x23x065932
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 ff...
MotionRelease3x2x2snap5
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 11 Jul 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.1 snap1 * Pthread deadlock in motion 3.2.1 fixed (Angel Carpinte...
ReleasedNextSnapshot
Patch Released in Next Snapshot This means that the patch has been integrated in the source code and ready for a snap shot release. Kenneth added this new state s...
PatchBounced
Patch Bounced This is for patches that needs more work. It can be a patch that simply does not work at all. It can be a patch where the feature is not accepted as...
SupportQuestion2005x07x06x143026
Question Jul 6 18:32:19 server motion: 0 ioctl (VIDIOCGCAP): Invalid argument Jul 6 18:32:19 server motion: 0 Capture error Invalid argument This does mean t...
FeatureRequest2005x05x27x140650
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 cl...
FeatureRequest2005x05x05x150519
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 l...
FeatureRequest2005x03x31x223032
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 '...
MotionRelease3x2x2snap4
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 27 Jun 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.1 snap1 * Pthread deadlock in motion 3.2.1 fixed (Angel Carpinte...
SuSE92Prep
Compiling on SuSE 9.2 This topic is a bit our of date. It covers Motion 3.1.X. From Motion 3.2.1 you can ignore the libwww and xmlrpc part since these are no long...
FeatureRequest2005x03x31x231018
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 vid...
SupportQuestion2005x05x20x221500
Question I have an Axis 210 camera. I am using the following netcam url per the "Working Devices" Section of the site: netcam_url http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/axis cgi/...
SupportQuestion2005x06x03x083931
Question The PHP script (control204pt.php) provided by Kenneth to control the Tilt/Pan of the webcam works fine for me as long as I dont press the submit buttons ...
SupportQuestion2005x06x08x131818
Question I have a GE EasyCamPro, Model H098064 which uses the ov51x module (availabe from: http://alpha.ovcam.org/ov511/ ..to get support for the ov519), and appa...
SupportQuestion2005x06x21x101559
Question Hello, I wanted to install motion server on 2 different server and with an ip virtual address share request between the 2 different server. Is here any p...
NetcamStabilityPatch
Netcam Stability Patch Introduction This is a new clean page to start working on getting the StreamingNetcamWithoutCurl stable. Description of Patch This is a m...
PatchStatus
Patch Status The status of the patch. * PlannedPatch Patch is planned but not yet coded * PatchInProgress Patch is being coded but no files released yet...
ReleasedSnapshot
Patch Released in Motion Snapshot Patch is complete and will be included in the next version of Motion. It is available for final testing in a Motion Snapshot Rel...
FfmpegPatch049
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 Gento...
MotionRelease3x1x18snap11
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.18_snap11 Note The formal release 3.1.18 is now available. You should not need to download this snap shot release. The formal 3.1.18...
MotionRelease3x1x18snap7
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.18_snap7 Release Notes 3.1.18 snap7 17 Nov 2004 Development Release not recommended for normal use Released as snapshot for devel...
MotionRelease3x1x18snap8
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.18_snap8 Release Notes 3.1.18 snap8 10 Dec 2004 Development Release not recommended for normal use Released as snapshot for devel...
MotionRelease3x1x18snap9
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.18_snap9 Release Notes 3.1.18 snap9 03 Dec 2004 Development Release not recommended for normal use We are very interested in gett...
PreviewShotsPatch
Preview Shots Patch Introduction Some people have built nice frontends to present their images created by motion on a web site for easy access. I would actually ...
ReleaseNoteMotion3x1x18
Release Note Motion 3.1.18 3.1.18 Summary of changes since 3.1.17. * Removed the Berkeley mpeg feature * New brightness, contrast, hue and saturation o...
SignalLossDetectionPatch
SignalLossDetectionPatch Introduction This patch does work but it is NOT ready for general use yet for a number of reasons: * Updates to motion control not do...
NetcamCodeOverview
Netcam Code Overview The Camera Thread Side The netcam code is initiated from video.c function vid_start() by calling the function * netcam_start(cnt) Each vi...
FeatureRequest2005x06x01x171033
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 ...
FeatureRequest2005x03x31x230802
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 coul...
FeatureRequest2005x04x07x175613
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 ...
PhilipsWebcamDriverInfo
Philips Webcam Driver Information. Some will have noticed that the pwc driver is no longer in the new kernels. This page provides information and resources to get...
MotionRelease3x2x2snap3
Motion Snapshot Release Release Notes 23 Jun 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.1 snap1 * Pthread deadlock in motion 3.2.1 fixed (Angel Carpinte...
r3 - 23 Jun 2005 - 23:10 by AngelCarpintero
MotionRelease3x2x2snap2
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.2_snap2 Release Notes 3.2.2 snap2 22 Jun 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.1 snap1 * Pthread deadlock in motion 3.2.1 f...
ChdirNetCamWgetPatch
Chdir and Netcam wget Patches Posted by Main.KennethLavrsen based on emails from Main.ChristopheGRENIER Introduction Two patches from mailing list chdir Please ...
r4 - 08 Jun 2005 - 07:33 by EvilPete
SupportQuestion2005x05x10x075920
Question I have resently aquired one of these cammera's but find the firmware not up to par, it will only record for 5 seconds on motion detect so I am looking i...
MotionRelease3x2x2snap1
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.2_snap1 Release Notes 3.2.2 snap1 03 Jun 2005 Development Release Changes since 3.2.1 snap1 * Pthread deadlock in motion 3.2.1 f...
FeatureRequest2005x05x30x143842
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 funct...
FeatureRequest2005x06x01x102311
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 ...
MotionCntStructureOverview
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...
BugReport2005x05x02x180550
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 is...
FeatureRequest2005x05x06x145420
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_...
FeatureRequest2005x05x20x235512
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 mot...
MotionSoapService
MotionSOAP. A webservice running under MONO Introduction MotionSOAP is a WebService that runs under Mono. It is rather a primative phase at the moment. I plan...
SetupModePatch
SetupModePatch Introduction Setup_mode is a new feature to enable you to tune basic settings in a more comfortable way. Description of Patch With setup_mode ena...
PthreadFixPatch
Pthread Fix Posted by Main.KennethLavrsen based on email from Main.ChristopheGRENIER Introduction The pthread_cond_signal() routine is used to signal (or wake up...
OnXxxCommandsPatch
OnXxxCommandsPatch Introduction Redesign of the current external commands interface. (Ref FeatureRequest2005x03x31x223032) Description of Patch A redesign of th...
FixedMaskFileOnMotionImagesPatch
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 r...
XMotionTool
Project Name XMotion Introduction XMotion is a graphical interface which supports viewing the pictures captured (via FTP or local file system) and the interactiv...
BugReport2005x03x27x112843
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 ...
BugReport2005x03x21x070534
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 c...
BugReport2005x01x30x073616
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 ...
BugReport2005x03x30x011107
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. ...
BugReport2005x02x28x170109
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...
BugReport2005x02x12x172946
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. B...
BugReport2005x04x24x205933
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 ...
BugReport2005x02x26x195358
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...
BugReport2005x05x02x205307
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 no...
BugReport2005x05x07x042849
BUG: we are getting there! files are attached Test case Environment Motion version: 3.2.1 snap16a ffmpeg version: Shared libraries: ...
BugReport2005x05x22x213229
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 ...
BugReport2005x05x06x174416
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 the...
BugReport2005x05x21x105335
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_par...
BugReport2005x04x13x214912
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 bro...
FeatureRequest2005x05x24x183713
Feature Request: Description It would be nice to produce xvid videos directly instead of converting them from msmpeg4 / mpeg4 through ffmpeg. Main.WolfgangAnd...
r3 - 27 May 2005 - 01:26 by AngelCarpintero
ReleaseNoteMotion3x1x20
Release Note Motion 3.1.20 Main.KennethLavrsen 26 May 2005 Note: We recommend upgrading to Motion 3.2.1. Motion 3.1.X will not be maintained much longer. Mo...
ReleaseNoteMotion3x2x1
Release Note Motion 3.2.1 Main.KennethLavrsen 26 May 2005 Summary of changes since 3.1.19 Features * Control Interface: XMLRPC replaced by http interfa...
SupportQuestion2005x05x25x084501
Question I did setup motion on my Debian system now and it works fine so far after some development of a driver for my camera. I did search in all options and did...
r2 - 25 May 2005 - 14:32 by AngelCarpintero
MotionRelease3x2x1snap17
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap17 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap17 16 May 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use The netcam code is still under...
r5 - 25 May 2005 - 01:44 by AngelCarpintero
MotionRelease3x1x20snap7
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.20_snap7 Release Notes 3.1.20 snap7 26 Apr 2005 Bugfix Development Release not recommended for production use The netcam code is ...
r3 - 25 May 2005 - 00:55 by AngelCarpintero
FeatureRequest2005x05x12x041648
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/web...
SupportQuestion2005x05x16x073620
Question does anybody know a eletronic circuit to talk with servos throw rs232 or rs485??? a servo to pan and another to tilt (maybe more one to zoom :P) but just...
SupportQuestion2005x05x20x164007
Question I have 3 cameras set up 2 v4l and 1 netcam. The seem to work fine (ie they detect motion and start recording and stop when the motion is done) but when ...
SupportQuestion2005x04x24x073352
Question Receiving the following messages when using Motion with an iCamView network webcam: Starting motion detection : motion Processing thread 0 config file ...
SupportQuestion2005x05x11x161256
Question root@fedora3 r # ./mostart Processing thread 0 config file /etc/motion/motion.conf Thread0 device: /dev/video0 input: 8 mpeg4 @ 0x37ee330 only YUV420...
GMotionLive
gmotionlive Introduction gmotionlive is a gtk based webcam viewer Detailed Description gmotionlive is a multipart/x mixed replace viewer. It uses gnomevfs to op...
SupportQuestion2005x05x15x002651
Question I have a Geovision GV250 card with 2 cameras. I really want to switch the PC to linux, all my other 4 are, but I need the cameras running. Is this possib...
r2 - 15 May 2005 - 07:10 by AngelCarpintero
FeatureRequest2005x05x02x210851
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/p...
BugReport2005x05x09x003527
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,...
MotionRelease3x2x1snap16
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap16 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap16 08 May 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use The netcam code is still under...
BugReport2005x05x06x122523
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...
r2 - 06 May 2005 - 14:52 by AngelCarpintero
MotionRelease3x2x1snap15
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap15 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap15 26 Apr 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use The netcam code is still under...
SupportQuestion2005x04x24x145153
Question Buon giorno :D in the first place, sorry for my bad english :\ I have this problem.. After compile this versions of motion (i try on 4 different computer...
PatchSmartMask
Smartmask Patch Introduction Today motion provides a static mask to turn off sensitivity in certain areas. This is very usefull to mask a street with cars passin...
MotionRelease3x1x20snap6
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.20_snap6 Release Notes 3.1.20 snap6 22 Apr 2005 Bugfix Development Release not recommended for production use The netcam code is ...
MotionRelease3x2x1snap14
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap14 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap14 22 Apr 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use The netcam code is still under...
SecureWebcamFeeds
HowTo: Secure your WebCam feeds using Apache, Basic Auth and SSL on Debian This is a draft document detailing how to use Apache to lock down your webcam feeds us...
r13 - 20 Apr 2005 - 21:31 by WillCooke
TestForm
Form Definition Support Questions Name:* *Type: Size: Values: Tooltip message: TopicTitle text 70 The title is shown in the tables Suppor...
TestPage1
TestPage1 Test page Main.KennethLavrsen 20 Apr 2005
TuningMotion
Tuning Motion Motion 3.2 introduces a new feature Setup Mode. This is a great new feature with really make tuning all the settings of Motion much more easy and ...
MotionRelease3x2x1snap13
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap13 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap13 15 Apr 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use The netcam code is still under...
StreamingNetcamWithoutCurl
Streaming Netcam Without Curl Introduction This patch was originally submitted by Christopher Price on 14th of August 2004 on the Motion Mailing List Descriptio...
r74 - 17 Apr 2005 - 02:38 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2005x04x16x144132
Question If have configured motion so that it will save every hour a mpeg movie. (Like movie %He hour) That works fine. But the next day it appends the recording ...
MotionRelease3x1x20snap5
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.20_snap5 Release Notes 3.1.20 snap5 13 Apr 2005 Bugfix Development Release not recommended for production use The netcam code is ...
r2 - 15 Apr 2005 - 23:30 by AngelCarpintero
MotionRelease3x2x1snap12
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap12 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap12 13 Apr 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use The netcam code is still under...
r2 - 15 Apr 2005 - 23:23 by AngelCarpintero
MotionGuideSpecialFeatures
Motion Guide Special Features This topic consists of the following subtopics: TrackingControl, UsingDatabases, LoopbackDevice. Main.KennethLavrsen 13 Apr 20...
ErrorLogging
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 h...
TrackingControl
Tracking Control This is still at the experimental stage. Read more about it motion tracking page. Tracking Feature with Logitech Quickcam Sphere/Orbit Motion ...
BugReport2005x02x03x035918
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 ...
r7 - 12 Apr 2005 - 05:26 by BruceDurham
SnapshotsWebCam
Snapshots The Traditional Periodic Web Camera Motion can also act like a traditional web camera. See the also snapshot_filename option in the section Advanced F...
MotionDetectionSettings
Motion Detection Settings These are the options that controls the detection of motion. Further details follows after. Main.KennethLavrsen 05 Apr 2005
MotionQuickStartGuide
Father Ted's Motion Quick Start Guide
ImageFileOutput
Image File Output The following options controls how Motion generates images when detection motion. Main.KennethLavrsen 11 Apr 2005
ConfigRangeCheckingDiscussion
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, ra...
MotionRelease3x1x20snap4
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.20_snap4 Release Notes 3.1.20 snap4 03 Apr 2005 Bugfix Development Release not recommended for production use The netcam code is ...
MotionRelease3x2x1snap11
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap11 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap11 03 Apr 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use The netcam code is still under...
OnXxxxFeatureDiscussion
on_xxxx Feature Discussion Proposal Motion has some config options to start external programs or scripts when a certain event has occurred. These options are fol...
FeatureRequest2005x04x01x193531
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 ...
SupportQuestion2005x03x10x221925
Question I've just upgraded from 3.1.17 to 3.1.19 and seem to be having some netcam connection issues. (Everything worked ok in 3.1.17). I'm running LFS 5.0 with...
r4 - 01 Apr 2005 - 18:25 by TheSpike
SupportQuestion2005x03x27x224143
Question Hi, I have motion running (works fine) but when I do live streaming is also works goed only the bandwith is over 300kbps. My upload line is only 128kbps ...
r3 - 01 Apr 2005 - 09:15 by MartijnZuiderwijk
KevinsWebpage
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 su...
ToDoList
Motion To Do List This topic has been replaced by RoadMap and FeatureRequests Main.KennethLavrsen 30 Sep 2004
FeatureRequest2005x03x31x232253
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 ...
FeatureRequest2005x03x31x232126
Feature Request: Description Have you considered a forward looking algoritm ? Let me explain what I mean. The algoritm in your technology description currently ...
FeatureRequest2005x03x31x231754
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 de...
FeatureRequest2005x03x31x231555
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 t...
FeatureRequest2005x03x31x231419
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 senst...
FeatureRequest2005x03x31x231146
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, ...
FeatureRequest2005x03x31x225338
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 woul...
FeatureRequest2005x03x31x224427
Feature Request: Description Added to this page by Main.KennethLavrsen on behalf of Main.JoergWeber. Main.KennethLavrsen 31 Mar 2005 Follow up Created a sp...
FeatureRequestStatus
Feature Request Status * New Submitted but noone has decided on it. * Discussion Feature is being discussed. Participate by editing the topic. You can s...
FeatureRequestForm
Form Definition Feature Requests Name:* *Type: Size: Values: Tooltip message: TopicTitle text 70 The title is shown in the tables Feature...
FeatureRequestTemplate
%NOP{ * Note: Do not edit this topic. Go to FeatureRequests * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.TWikiAdminGroup }% Feature Request: Description Follow up ...
BugReport2005x03x03x141014
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 ...
SupportQuestion2005x03x30x084459
Question Good morning, I need to detect when an event is ended. I found that motion supports: execute event started onsave image saved onffmpegclose even...
SupportQuestion2005x03x29x183058
Question i have a problem with a cam usb Genius the program ....is posible configure this program for this cam? and if is posible please help me ...what i do ???...
MotionRelease3x1x20snap3
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.20_snap3 Release Notes 3.1.20 snap3 28 Mar 2005 Bugfix Development Release not recommended for normal use The netcam code is stil...
r3 - 29 Mar 2005 - 13:14 by MikeChudobiak
MotionRelease3x2x1snap10
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap10 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap10 28 Mar 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use The netcam code is still under...
MotionRelease3x2x1snap9
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap9 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap9 27 Mar 2005 :scull: Don't use. Buggy. Development Release not recommended for normal use The n...
r3 - 27 Mar 2005 - 20:32 by AngelCarpintero
MotionRelease3x1x20snap2
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.20_snap2 Release Notes 3.1.20 snap2 27 Mar 2005 :scull: Don't use. Buggy Bugfix Development Release not recommended for normal u...
r3 - 27 Mar 2005 - 19:19 by AngelCarpintero
TimBernersLee
Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN in 1989. See his biography at http://www.w3.org/People/Berners Lee/
NEW - 27 Mar 2005 - 13:14 by TWikiContributor
MotionRelease3x2x1snap8
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap8 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap8 26 Mar 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use The netcam code is still under d...
MotionRelease3x1x20snap1
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.20_snap1 Release Notes 3.1.20 snap1 26 Mar 2005 Bugfix Development Release not recommended for normal use The netcam code is stil...
SupportQuestion2005x03x24x141933
Question Hello I've got problem with Motion. I've got 3 netcameras Axion 2110. It breaks after few minutes. It looks like this: 1) For a first ~60 sec all is ok:...
MotionRelease3x2x1snap7
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap7 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap7 24 Mar 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use The netcam code is still under d...
SupportQuestion2005x03x22x113924
Question Hi, is it possible to use motion on a SBC W/128mb DiskOnModule? Right now, there is a debian(woody) system using about 4mb of DOM. There is no library i...
SupportQuestion2005x03x22x053049
Question Dear Kenneth. Sorry for bypassing the request procedure, seems complicated.. What is complicated about filling out a web form? It takes me a significant ...
MotionRelease3x2x1snap6
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap6 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap6 20 Mar 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use Note that in this snapshot suppo...
MotionAndVloopbackVideoDotCPatch
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...
SetupModeDiscussion
setup_mode discussion The feature was discussed on IRC #motion channel. http://koala.ilog.fr/twikiirc/bin/irclogger_log/motion?date=2004 11 01,Mon sel=51#l47 Here...
MotionFrameBufferTechnique
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 u...
MotionRelease3x2x1snap5
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap5 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap5 13 Mar 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use Changes since 3.1.19_snap4 snap1...
MotionRelease3x2x1snap4
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap4 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap4 11 Mar 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use Changes since 3.1.19_snap4 snap1...
BugReport2005x01x31x211756
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 ...
BugReport2005x01x16x030209
BUG: The streaming netcam feature used with a Panasonic KX HCM280 produces errors and terminates motion. Security is enabled on the camera. netcam_userpass motio...
BugReport2005x03x01x195957
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 do...
BugReport2005x02x01x071546
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 tha...
SupportQuestion2005x02x20x154829
Question I am looking at using Motion. I was very excited when I first learned of the multiple camara (round robin) option. Unfortunately it won't work for me now...
SupportQuestion2005x03x09x180553
Question I am interested in incorporating sound in some way. If a sound is detected by an external microphone I want to activate Motion as if there was movement....
BugReport2005x01x10x202519
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 ad...
BugReport2005x03x03x232615
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: c...
BugReport2005x02x23x095334
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 i...
ReleaseNoteMotion3x1x19
Release Note Motion 3.1.19 3.1.19 Summary of changes since 3.1.18. * Fixed bug when setting ffmpeg_timelapse=1 * Made netcam code more robust * Fixe...
MotionRelease3x2x1snap3
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap3 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap3 1 Mar 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use Changes since 3.1.19_snap3 snap1 ...
r2 - 02 Mar 2005 - 00:38 by AngelCarpintero
BugReport2005x02x24x135548
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 ...
r5 - 28 Feb 2005 - 15:40 by RaphaelAssenat
MotionRelease3x2x1snap2
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap2 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap2 26 Feb 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use Changes since 3.1.19_snap3 snap1...
MotionRelease3x2x1snap1
Motion Snapshot Release 3.2.1_snap1 Release Notes 3.2.1 snap1 16 Feb 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use Changes since 3.1.19_snap3 snap1...
SupportQuestion2005x02x25x122038
Question Hi folks, I am looking for a Live CD that incorporates Motion? This is for a simple single webcam monitoring application. Does anyone have any experienc...
SupportQuestion2005x02x21x213030
Question Running motion 3.1.18 on FC3 HP TC2120 server with Hauppage WinTV Express card. Kernel is 2.6.10 1.766_FC3 #1 USB camera works just fine. However when ...
SupportQuestion2005x02x24x125815
Question I am trying to use motion for timelapse recordings to replace a timelapse VCR we have so we can file the videos on DVD. I would like to use Motion but th...
MotionRelease3x1x19snap4
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.19_snap4 Release Notes 3.1.19 snap4 25 Feb 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use Changes since 3.1.18 snap1 ...
BugReport2005x02x07x100303
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 li...
r10 - 25 Feb 2005 - 19:43 by AngelCarpintero
BugReport2005x01x30x190907
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 ...
r8 - 25 Feb 2005 - 19:42 by AngelCarpintero
MotionRelease3x1x19snap3
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.19_snap3 Release Notes 3.1.19 snap3 16 Feb 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use Changes since 3.1.18 snap1 ...
r3 - 17 Feb 2005 - 21:06 by AngelCarpintero
MotionRelease3x1x19snap2
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.19_snap2 Release Notes 3.1.19 snap2 15 Feb 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use Changes since 3.1.18 snap1 ...
r2 - 15 Feb 2005 - 14:51 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2005x02x14x143258
Question Hi there I want to truncate the motion detected video at say 5 seconds, then not produce any more video for say 2 minutes. I tried setting gap 120 ma...
BugReport2005x02x11x150802
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...
r4 - 14 Feb 2005 - 05:22 by AngelCarpintero
MotionRelease3x1x19snap1
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.19_snap1 Release Notes 3.1.19 snap1 09 Feb 2005 Development Release not recommended for normal use Changes since 3.1.18 snap1 ...
r4 - 14 Feb 2005 - 05:02 by AngelCarpintero
BugReport2005x02x11x170019
BUG: %makeinstall section of motion.spec (line 33) included with source attempts to mv motion dist.conf from %{_sysconfdir} directory to %{_sysconfdir}/%{name} d...
r4 - 14 Feb 2005 - 04:55 by AngelCarpintero
PreCaptureThrottleLoad
Feature Proposal Redesign pre_capture to throttle load when many frames have to be processed Feature proposal added by Main.JoergWeber 15 Sep 2004 Proposal 10...
BugReport2005x02x12x013830
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 pr...
SupportQuestion2005x01x07x150123
Question motion coredumps on me everynight, it seems to run just fine all day long but dumps in the middle of the night. here are my logs: Jan 6 13:43:28 731CAM...
r4 - 12 Feb 2005 - 01:41 by AngelCarpintero
BugReport2004x10x25x084137
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...
r6 - 12 Feb 2005 - 01:34 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2005x02x04x091351
Question I have a capture card called GrandTek bt848 with 4 ports for 4 cammeras. I whanted to ask you how exactly cand i configure that all the 4 cameras conecte...
SupportQuestion2005x02x02x184321
Question This is a follow up question to SupportQuestion2005x01x28x222114 Thanks for your quick answer. Unfortunately this does not work for me. Computer: A 120MH...
SupportQuestion2005x02x02x070318
Question I m using Motion 3.1.17 with 3 D link DCS900 network cameras. It was working fine with 1 camera. Then I added two more and the problems started. Recordin...
RotatePatch
Updated Rotate Patch ( Speed Improvement ) Introduction The updated rotate patch was created for two reasons: 1. Possible bugs in the original rotate patch. ...
MakefileWithAutoDependencies
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 a...
LabelingSpeedPatch
Labeling Speed Improvement Patch Introduction This patch improves the speed of the alg_labeling function substantially. It also fixed a bug in said function. De...
DilateNineSpeedPatch
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 motio...
DilateFiveSpeedPatch
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...
BrightnessContrastPatch
Patch Title Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue Introduction This patch allows motion to set the brightness, contrast, saturation and hue for a video source. ...
BugReport2004x12x15x102245
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 ...
BugReport2005x01x05x174139
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 ...
BugReport2005x01x06x103939
BUG: Does that phrase in docs mean "enable only one of" or "don't confuse with"? Test case Environment Motion version: 3.1.17 Shared libraries: ...
BugReport2005x01x10x095715
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 se...
BugReport2005x01x13x131304
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 scri...
BugReport2005x01x06x181426
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 ...
BugReport2004x12x02x115356
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 ...
BugReport2004x10x26x134906
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...
BugReport2005x01x23x133554
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...
GNUPublicLicense
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 675 Mass Ave, Camb...
PhilipsWebcamDriverDebate
Philips Webcam Driver Debate Background Subjective and biosed statement from Kenneth Lavrsen as a starting point for debate. This text was originally on the info...
RemoteControlXmlRpc
Controlling Motion via XML RPC Motion version 3.1.12 has got a new exciting feature which is the ability to control Motion while it is running. Motion now has a b...
ReleaseNoteMotion3x1x17
Release Note Motion 3.1.17 3.1.17 Bugfix release snap1 * Removed annoying debug syslog message (input: #) * Implemented Peter Ilin's patch for handling v...
GenHtmlShellScript
genhtml.sh Author: Main.JeroenVreeken Submitted by. Main.KennethLavrsen Generates output similar to show.cgi but without the header. Depends on the chosen filenam...
PerlParseMJPEGStream
Perl Parse MJPEG Stream Introduction This project is just for posting Perl code snippets for parsing an MJPEG Stream in real time. Detailed Description I don't ...
SupportQuestion2005x01x28x222114
Question Thanks for motion! What I am after is something like this: just as lastsnap.jpg is the last picture taken, it would be very useful to have something like...
SupportQuestion2005x01x24x005849
Question First off, let me say thank you. Motion is an excellent product and you can bet I'll be telling my friends about it. Now on to the questions: Is there an...
SupportQuestion2005x01x06x201636
Question I want to run motion as apache, to be able to use webdav for collecting data from the storage directory. The only way I know, is before running motion to...
WebCam
Main.SebastienFricker 16 Jan 2005
NEW - 16 Jan 2005 - 09:55 by SebastienFricker
SupportQuestion2005x01x14x215833
Question My camera is mounted upside down, and I use rotate 180 to correct it. Is the mask image applied before or after the rotation? Environment Motion versi...
SupportQuestion2005x01x14x012409
Question Sorry for the dumb question, but I reccently upgraded from an old version to 3.1.18 snap 8, in the older version jpeg_cleanup worked with ffmpeg. The do...
RelatedProjectsTemplate
(Replace this text by a short headline for your project) Introduction Please introduce your project. What does it do? Detailed Description Give more details as...
BugStatus
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:...
BugReportForm
Form Definition Bug Reports Name:* *Type: Size: Values: Tooltip message: Atributes TopicTitle text 70 The title is shown in the tables ...
BugReport2005x01x06x123130
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 a...
NetcamDecompressInMemory
Netcam Decompress In Memory Introduction There're a fact that makes motion to decrease its performance, write to disk each frame captured from network cameras. T...
KennethsCustomKernelWithPWC10andK8000
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 m...
SupportQuestion2004x12x22x220225
Question I am using the webcam feature to stream live pictures. This works really well with one thread. However when I add a second thread the second camera works...
BugReport2004x11x20x092807
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...
BugReport2004x10x24x140232
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 Linu...
BugReport2004x11x13x202132
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 ax...
BugReport2004x12x14x082854
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_F...
SupportQuestion2004x11x19x183818
Question I keep getting "sync error in proc : Input/output error" in /var/log/messages. Configuration: Fedora Core 2, vanilla. Using Avermedia EZ DVD PCI Card wi...
SupportQuestion2004x12x20x160810
Question I would like to add text into a picture from a file so that the text could change. For example: a temperature reading from a temp probe, a binary reading...
MotionCodeWebcam
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 i...
SupportQuestion2004x12x17x204538
Question I'd like to use the webcam server option of Motion to broadcast a stream (of jpgs) to the internet when a motion is detected (to safe server load). Howev...
SupportQuestion2004x12x11x050926
Question All I read on motion is about specific cameras. Our voluntary worker's organization got a deal on a wireless generic surveillance camera! Does it really ...
BugReport2004x11x20x173207
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...
BugReport2004x11x20x174816
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...
EnhancedTrackingFeatureDiscussion
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....
MotionWithFFmpegDiscussion
Motion with FFmpeg Introduction This topic was started to host a discussion of Motion's support for FFmpeg. FFmpeg is a solution for encoding and decoding video ...
r3 - 29 Nov 2004 - 16:56 by PerJonsson
MotionRelease3x1x18snap6
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.18_snap6 Release Notes 3.1.18 snap6 12 Nov 2004 Development Release not recommended for normal use Released as snapshot for devel...
r2 - 15 Nov 2004 - 23:20 by AngelCarpintero
SupportQuestion2004x11x11x071138
Question I have installed the lates versions of the libwww Libraries from the URL www.w3c.org/Library and the File XMLRPC 0.9.10 kjl3.tar.gz. The apache 1.3.X Web...
MotionWatchdogAndCleanupPrograms
motionwatchdog and motioncleanup Introduction motionwatchdog: an application which (re)start motion and other application automatically after a crash. Option...
SupportQuestion2004x11x09x194756
Question (transferred from UserFeedback) Motion is great. I used Motion in version 2.6 to set up a simple surveillance box. But still a question: I want to run si...
r4 - 12 Nov 2004 - 21:36 by ThorstenKutska
MotionCenter
Main.AlexRodrigues 12 Nov 2004
NEW - 12 Nov 2004 - 03:08 by AlexRodrigues
MotionRelease3x1x18snap5
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.18_snap5 Release Notes 3.1.18 snap5 11 Nov 2004 Development Release not recommended for normal use Released as snapshot for devel...
SingleFrameCaptureUsingPHP
Single Frame Capturing Using PHP Submitted by John Huong Introduction This PHP script is a port of the original MJ Grab program. Detailed Description To use th...
MotionRelease3x1x18snap4
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.18_snap4 Release Notes 3.1.18 snap4 01 Nov 2004 Development Release not recommended for normal use Released as snapshot for devel...
BugReport2004x10x24x135840
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 vi...
SupportQuestion2004x10x29x154401
Question This is more of a feature request, really. It seems like, unless you set the framerate to maximum, the videos, when played, look like they're beeing fast...
MotionRelease3x1x18snap3
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.18_snap3 Release Notes 3.1.18 snap3 Development Release not recommended for normal use Released as snapshot for developers to merge...
r2 - 29 Oct 2004 - 15:44 by AngelCarpintero
MotionRelease3x1x18snap2
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.18_snap2 Release Notes 3.1.18 snap2 Development Release not recommended for normal use Released as snapshot for developers to merge...
r2 - 26 Oct 2004 - 14:21 by AngelCarpintero
SubmittedBy
Submitted By Name of the person that submits the original topic (submit question, bug report etc). If you have a TWiki name use this in the format Main.KennethLav...
SupportForm
Form Definition Support Questions Name:* *Type: Size: Values: Tooltip message: TopicTitle text 70 The title is shown in the tables Suppor...
MotionStreamTestProgram
Motion Stream Test Program Introduction Test the webcam stream from Motion. Detailed Description This program connects to the webcam stream of Motion and output...
SupportStatus
Support questions have this status: * AskedQuestions: See the new questions that have not yet been answered * AssignedQuestions: Under investigation by the ...
MotionRelease3x1x18snap1
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.18_snap1 Release Notes 3.1.18 snap1 Development Release not recommended for normal use Released as snapshot for developers to merge...
r2 - 19 Oct 2004 - 21:48 by AngelCarpintero
SyslogEventPatch
Syslog Event Patch Introduction This patch addresses the issue that Motion starts processes that never ends Patch was submitted by Mike Lees on the Motion Mailin...
r6 - 17 Oct 2004 - 22:10 by AngelCarpintero
HowToPatchPWC9PWCX9OnKernel2dot6
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 n...
FreeBSDFixCompile
FreeBSD Fix Compile Problem description When you try to compile FreeBSD version of motion without bktr support ( V4L in linux ) passing without v4l to configur...
DaemonDetachFromSTDIO
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 daem...
MotionRelease3x1x17snap2
Motion Snapshot Release 3.1.17_snap2 Release Notes NOTE: Official 3.1.17 is now released 3.1.17 snap2 Bugfix release * Implemented a new lightswitch feature....
MotionExamples
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...
MotionViewJavaUtility
Motion View Author: Jay Summit (http://www.summet.com/mainhome.html) Submitted by: Main.KennethLavrsen Motion View is a utility program written in Java that allow...
LinuxVideoSurveillanceELViS
Linux Video Surveillance eLViS Linux Video Surveillance AKA eLViS provides a user interface for watching motion frames captured by the motion program as JPEG f...
MeasureNoise
Measurenoise Author: Folkert van Heusden Upload here by: Main.KennethLavrsen Original URL for project: http://www.vanheusden.com/measurenoise/ Check the original ...
MotionCGI
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 M...
MotionTrackerAPI
Serial stepper motor interface API *Subject: API for controlling a serial stepper motor *Version: 1.0 *Status: final *Author: Jeroen Vreeken *Date: 14 6 2001 Int...
MotionTracking
Motion Tracking Author: Jeroen Vreeken Tracking A while ago I and several others made a serial port controlled stepper motor system. I also added the capability ...
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