Send Motion-user mailing list submissions to
[email protected]
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
[email protected]
You can reach the person managing the list at
[email protected]
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of Motion-user digest..."
Today's Topics:
1. Re: motion crashing or stops working (S Andreason)
2. Re: motion crashing or stops working (tosiara)
3. Re: mkv vs mp4 (Harlan Daneker)
4. Re: mkv vs mp4 (tosiara)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 08:59:55 -0800
From: S Andreason <[email protected]>
To: Motion-user <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motion crashing or stops working
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Hi,
Yes it is random. I think something in the timing, or the sequence in
loading cameras.
It crashed upon the daily startup 8 times in January. I think it is less
now, since I changed the order in which the multiple camera conf files
are loaded. Also after adding a 3rd camera, the exact sequence or timing
is hit less often.
My latest tactic has been to start with log_level 9, then change to 2 a
few minutes after startup with a cron job. Looking for details in what
works and what crashes.
As far as crashing during the day, I have modified my ptz-control
program to wait a second between requests, so it is not crashing as
often as before. Also I have not pushed it with lots of mask changes
lately. Less activity in winter.
However since it crashed again this morning at bootup, twice including
the gdb with backtrace, I have pretty good diff between working logs
today and yesterday, and the crash logs to submit.
I am zipping up the conf files, the motion.log clips, and the gdb
backtrace output with my notes in the text file. Note it started writing
a .mp4 file, only 48 bytes in length.
http://www.seahorsecorral.org/videos/tests/pi1_20210209_motion.zip
Thank you for looking at this,
Stewart
tosiara wrote:
> How do you reproduce the crash? Is it random?
>
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 6:46 PM S Andreason <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I sent a gdb backtrace on Dec.25 but never heard any reply, so am
>> assuming it got lost. Here is a resend. I have also had it crash
>> yesterday right after startup, without changing the mask file etc. Just
>> a few screenshots and then disappeared.
>> Please reply with ideas for further testing or config file changes.
>>
------------------------------
Message: 2
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 20:20:02 +0200
From: tosiara <[email protected]>
To: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] motion crashing or stops working
Message-ID:
<CACHTdwTb28T+BNQu=j58mkfanyvjvqayek85my7vybp-r3w...@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
How did you install motion?
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:03 PM S Andreason <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes it is random. I think something in the timing, or the sequence in
> loading cameras.
>
> It crashed upon the daily startup 8 times in January. I think it is less
> now, since I changed the order in which the multiple camera conf files
> are loaded. Also after adding a 3rd camera, the exact sequence or timing
> is hit less often.
>
> My latest tactic has been to start with log_level 9, then change to 2 a
> few minutes after startup with a cron job. Looking for details in what
> works and what crashes.
>
> As far as crashing during the day, I have modified my ptz-control
> program to wait a second between requests, so it is not crashing as
> often as before. Also I have not pushed it with lots of mask changes
> lately. Less activity in winter.
>
> However since it crashed again this morning at bootup, twice including
> the gdb with backtrace, I have pretty good diff between working logs
> today and yesterday, and the crash logs to submit.
>
> I am zipping up the conf files, the motion.log clips, and the gdb
> backtrace output with my notes in the text file. Note it started writing
> a .mp4 file, only 48 bytes in length.
>
> http://www.seahorsecorral.org/videos/tests/pi1_20210209_motion.zip
>
> Thank you for looking at this,
> Stewart
>
> tosiara wrote:
> > How do you reproduce the crash? Is it random?
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 6:46 PM S Andreason <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I sent a gdb backtrace on Dec.25 but never heard any reply, so am
> >> assuming it got lost. Here is a resend. I have also had it crash
> >> yesterday right after startup, without changing the mask file etc. Just
> >> a few screenshots and then disappeared.
> >> Please reply with ideas for further testing or config file changes.
> >>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Motion-user mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
> https://motion-project.github.io/
>
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/motion-user
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 16:50:52 -0500
From: Harlan Daneker <[email protected]>
To: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] mkv vs mp4
Message-ID:
<CAC1WkiRDAKeWx149ZAE4T=m5g5ud7we0omlxudqc5lqqemr...@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Thanks, I wasn't aware x264 was an executable. I installed it and it works
great.
movie_extpipe x264 - --input-res %wx%h --fps %fps --bitrate 2000 --preset
ultrafast --quiet -o %f.mp4 *"should be added to motion.conf as an
example."*
x265 files are somewhat smaller and if you use the mkv container firefox
will ask what application to use, but I prefer just using mp4.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 2:01 AM tosiara <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know if Firefox supports H265, but the following plays fine for me:
>
> movie_extpipe x264 - --input-res %wx%h --fps %fps --bitrate 2000
> --preset ultrafast --quiet -o %f.mp4
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:15 AM Harlan Daneker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > This works using the h265 codec. The mp4 files will playback using
> mplayer or vlc, but will not playback using firefox. Is there a way to make
> the mp4 files compatible with firefox?
> >
> > movie_extpipe ffmpeg -y -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -video_size %wx%h
> -framerate %fps -i pipe:0 -vcodec libx265 -preset ultrafast -f mp4 %f.mp4
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Harlan
> > _______________________________________________
> > Motion-user mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
> > https://motion-project.github.io/
> >
> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/motion-user
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Motion-user mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
> https://motion-project.github.io/
>
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/motion-user
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:03:07 +0200
From: tosiara <[email protected]>
To: Motion discussion list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] mkv vs mp4
Message-ID:
<CACHTdwQrS9xUzCWvKhbjaWVut1YrL+-yjcTOakoQHwgRuh=a...@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
This command was in motion-dist.conf ;)
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, 23:52 Harlan Daneker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, I wasn't aware x264 was an executable. I installed it and it works
> great.
> movie_extpipe x264 - --input-res %wx%h --fps %fps --bitrate 2000 --preset
> ultrafast --quiet -o %f.mp4 *"should be added to motion.conf as an
> example."*
>
> x265 files are somewhat smaller and if you use the mkv container firefox
> will ask what application to use, but I prefer just using mp4.
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 2:01 AM tosiara <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I don't know if Firefox supports H265, but the following plays fine for
>> me:
>>
>> movie_extpipe x264 - --input-res %wx%h --fps %fps --bitrate 2000
>> --preset ultrafast --quiet -o %f.mp4
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:15 AM Harlan Daneker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > This works using the h265 codec. The mp4 files will playback using
>> mplayer or vlc, but will not playback using firefox. Is there a way to make
>> the mp4 files compatible with firefox?
>> >
>> > movie_extpipe ffmpeg -y -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p -video_size %wx%h
>> -framerate %fps -i pipe:0 -vcodec libx265 -preset ultrafast -f mp4 %f.mp4
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Harlan
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Motion-user mailing list
>> > [email protected]
>> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
>> > https://motion-project.github.io/
>> >
>> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/motion-user
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Motion-user mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
>> https://motion-project.github.io/
>>
>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/motion-user
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Motion-user mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
> https://motion-project.github.io/
>
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/options/motion-user
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
------------------------------
------------------------------
Subject: Digest Footer
_______________________________________________
Motion-user mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
------------------------------
End of Motion-user Digest, Vol 176, Issue 21
********************************************
