I wonder if the problem you observe is the same as the problem I observe. Motion in Ubuntu 9.10 (3.2.11-1) will not view BTTV cameras properly on the first try, either as daemon on a reboot or just starting manually in shell, or starting daemon manually after a system has been up for a while. Initially I get a green screen. If I force a restart with /etc/init.d/motion restart it will start to monitor the camera. This has been observed on different servers, 32-bit and 64-bit versions. The problem persists even if I replace repository version with version I build from source.
>From the response I got from the Motion mailing list, the problem may be limited to Motion running on Ubuntu (and maybe Debian). -- motion device occupied with intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311388 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
