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1. Re: Motion Project (Joseph Heenan)
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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 17:59:29 +0100
From: Joseph Heenan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Motion Project
To: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>
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What?s the advantage of an external encoder?
> On 7 Aug 2016, at 17:55, tosiara <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ah, I probably see what you mean. The same config option sets codec for both
> video files and timelapse. And timelapse only supports two codecs. But I may
> be wrong as I'm not using ffmpeg encoder and completely switched to ext_pipe,
> so my codec is always set to swf in order to be able append timelapse. And I
> recommend everyone to use external encoder instead of internal
>
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 7:42 PM, tosiara <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> John, what exactly is not clear? You specify codec and this codec is then
> used to create video files.
>
>
> On Aug 7, 2016 7:33 PM, "John Baker" <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Is anyone able to help with the enquiry below?
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, at 07:01 AM, John Baker wrote:
> > Kenneth
> >
> > Thank you for all your hard work. Given you've done a lot of work on
> > documentation, please can I raise one point for your consideration &
> > clarification? How exactly does ffmpeg_video_codecformat work? When do
> > I use flv over swf? The first part of the docs suggests it only has two
> > options, but then it talks about supported formats.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > # Codec to used by ffmpeg for the video compression.
> > # Timelapse videos have two options.
> > # swf - Creates swf file with mpeg-2 encoding.
> > # If motion is shutdown and restarted, new pics will be appended
> > # to any previously created file with name indicated for timelapse.
> > # mpeg4 - Creates avi file with the default encoding.
> > # If motion is shutdown and restarted, new pics will create a
> > # new file with the name indicated for timelapse.
> > # Supported formats are:
> > # mpeg4 or msmpeg4 - gives you files with extension .avi
> > # msmpeg4 is recommended for use with Windows Media Player because
> > # it requires no installation of codec on the Windows client.
> > # swf - gives you a flash film with extension .swf
> > # flv - gives you a flash video with extension .flv
> > # ffv1 - FF video codec 1 for Lossless Encoding ( experimental )
> > # mov - QuickTime ( testing )
> > # ogg - Ogg/Theora ( testing )
> > # mp4 - MPEG-4 Part 14 H264 encoding
> > # mkv - Matroska H264 encoding
> > # hevc - H.265 / HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding)
> > ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4
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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 20:12:33 +0300
From: tosiara <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Motion Project
To: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>
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The advantage is that you can use ANY codec for video files and still keep
SWF for timelapse (which is MPEg2 with support of resuming videos). And
external encoder is the only way to utilize more than one cpu core. For
example, on a low power ARM device internal encoder will bloat single core
and drop frames. While with 'x264' encoder you can capture and encode
1280p@30fps stream
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Joseph Heenan <[email protected]> wrote:
> What?s the advantage of an external encoder?
>
> On 7 Aug 2016, at 17:55, tosiara <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ah, I probably see what you mean. The same config option sets codec for
> both video files and timelapse. And timelapse only supports two codecs. But
> I may be wrong as I'm not using ffmpeg encoder and completely switched to
> ext_pipe, so my codec is always set to swf in order to be able append
> timelapse. And I recommend everyone to use external encoder instead of
> internal
>
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 7:42 PM, tosiara <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> John, what exactly is not clear? You specify codec and this codec is then
>> used to create video files.
>>
>> On Aug 7, 2016 7:33 PM, "John Baker" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Is anyone able to help with the enquiry below?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, at 07:01 AM, John Baker wrote:
>>> > Kenneth
>>> >
>>> > Thank you for all your hard work. Given you've done a lot of work on
>>> > documentation, please can I raise one point for your consideration &
>>> > clarification? How exactly does ffmpeg_video_codecformat work? When do
>>> > I use flv over swf? The first part of the docs suggests it only has two
>>> > options, but then it talks about supported formats.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>> > # Codec to used by ffmpeg for the video compression.
>>> > # Timelapse videos have two options.
>>> > # swf - Creates swf file with mpeg-2 encoding.
>>> > # If motion is shutdown and restarted, new pics will be appended
>>> > # to any previously created file with name indicated for timelapse.
>>> > # mpeg4 - Creates avi file with the default encoding.
>>> > # If motion is shutdown and restarted, new pics will create a
>>> > # new file with the name indicated for timelapse.
>>> > # Supported formats are:
>>> > # mpeg4 or msmpeg4 - gives you files with extension .avi
>>> > # msmpeg4 is recommended for use with Windows Media Player because
>>> > # it requires no installation of codec on the Windows client.
>>> > # swf - gives you a flash film with extension .swf
>>> > # flv - gives you a flash video with extension .flv
>>> > # ffv1 - FF video codec 1 for Lossless Encoding ( experimental )
>>> > # mov - QuickTime ( testing )
>>> > # ogg - Ogg/Theora ( testing )
>>> > # mp4 - MPEG-4 Part 14 H264 encoding
>>> > # mkv - Matroska H264 encoding
>>> > # hevc - H.265 / HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding)
>>> > ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4
>>>
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Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 18:23:23 +0100
From: John Baker <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Motion Project
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The documentation is not clear. It suggests swf or mpeg4, and then lists
some other options. So are the possible options swf, mpeg4, msmpeg4,
flv, mov, ogg, etc? And why are these options only available for
timelapse - what about motion detection videos?
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016, at 05:42 PM, tosiara wrote:
> John, what exactly is not clear? You specify codec and this codec is then
> used to create video files.
>
> On Aug 7, 2016 7:33 PM, "John Baker" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Is anyone able to help with the enquiry below?
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, at 07:01 AM, John Baker wrote:
> > > Kenneth
> > >
> > > Thank you for all your hard work. Given you've done a lot of work on
> > > documentation, please can I raise one point for your consideration &
> > > clarification? How exactly does ffmpeg_video_codecformat work? When do
> > > I use flv over swf? The first part of the docs suggests it only has two
> > > options, but then it talks about supported formats.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > # Codec to used by ffmpeg for the video compression.
> > > # Timelapse videos have two options.
> > > # swf - Creates swf file with mpeg-2 encoding.
> > > # If motion is shutdown and restarted, new pics will be appended
> > > # to any previously created file with name indicated for timelapse.
> > > # mpeg4 - Creates avi file with the default encoding.
> > > # If motion is shutdown and restarted, new pics will create a
> > > # new file with the name indicated for timelapse.
> > > # Supported formats are:
> > > # mpeg4 or msmpeg4 - gives you files with extension .avi
> > > # msmpeg4 is recommended for use with Windows Media Player because
> > > # it requires no installation of codec on the Windows client.
> > > # swf - gives you a flash film with extension .swf
> > > # flv - gives you a flash video with extension .flv
> > > # ffv1 - FF video codec 1 for Lossless Encoding ( experimental )
> > > # mov - QuickTime ( testing )
> > > # ogg - Ogg/Theora ( testing )
> > > # mp4 - MPEG-4 Part 14 H264 encoding
> > > # mkv - Matroska H264 encoding
> > > # hevc - H.265 / HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding)
> > > ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4
> >
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