As I understand it from reading the docs on motion, it should create an mpeg movie of the motion it has captured. However, it seems most reluctant to do this.
I have a remote webcam set up monitoring the activities of a pigeon. I've configured it to email me when it detects motion, which it does quite frequently. I've also configured it to execute a script when it creates a movie, to email me the movie. But I very rarely get a movie - I've had three, and looking on the remote machine I see that three is all that have been created. So I know the script works, but the making of movies doesn't appear to. The activity which motion should be recording occurs as fairly short bursts, of a few seconds or so, as the pigeon flies across the webcam's field of view. It detects this OK, but won't make a movie of it. I've tried it both with the woody version of motion, and the sid version compiled on woody. They both behave the same. The webcam is fairly slow, and manages about 5fps tops when I view it locally with xawtv. I am passing the -B option to motion, and the settings in ~/.motion/motion.conf are: auto_brightness yes threshold 1000 post_capture 3 lightswitch yes gap 10 daemon yes mail (the email address I'm using for the purpose) onmpeg /home/pigeon/bin/picname2 snapshots 14400 target_dir /home/pigeon/upgrades2/motion quality 50 mpeg_encode yes jpg_cleanup yes max_mpeg_time 120 Anyone know why it's not making a movie every time it detects motion? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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