On 26/09/14 00:12, Rob Owens wrote: > I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes > still shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. > > I have set: > > # Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg movies in realtime (default: off) > ffmpeg_cap_new on > > and > > # Gap is the seconds of no motion detection that triggers the end of > an event # An event is defined as a series of motion images taken > within a short timeframe. # Recommended value is 60 seconds > (Default). The value 0 is allowed and disables # events causing all > Motion to be written to one single mpeg file and no pre_capture. gap > 60 > > Can anybody confirm that movie output works on Wheezy?
Yes. > > One thing that may be a factor in my case is that my test webcam is > very slow. I am only getting one picture every 2 or 3 seconds when > motion is detected. I have framerate set to 2 fps. Maybe motion is > aware that my pics are too far apart in time and is deciding not to > combine them into a movie. Any clues in the logs? 'top' may help find any bottlenecks. Note that an older box will have problems with high frequency high resolution images - especially with USB < 3. A work around that problem might be any or all of:- ;reduce frequency of images ;reduce image resolution ;offload image processing to hardware What sort of motion are you wanting to detect at 2 fps? A break-in by Speedy Gonzales? ;p Be careful or your motion directory will quickly fill with a huge amount of pictures. I don't use the movie output version - though I've used it in the past. I found it an unnecessary use of resources - it's trivial to construct a movie from the relevant still images at a later date - just ensure that you email those images off-site immediately after a motion event is detected (if you're using motion for security purposes). It may be relevant that while I do have the deb-multimedia.org repository enabled on the Debian (Wheezy) systems that run motion, it's pinned to give preference to debian repositories:- $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/multimedia.pref Package: * Pin: origin *.deb-multimedia.org Pin-Priority: 200 > > -Rob > > Upstream documentation is excellent - apologies for not referencing it earlier:- http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5424dec5.9070...@gmail.com