Motion - Feature Request 2006x 04x 09x 091235

Feature Request: Support of uvc devices using uvcvideo

Description

It would be very nice if motion could support uvc webcams. Trying a Logitech Pro 5000, supported by the new ( unfinished ) module uvcvideo, results in the following error from motion:

Apr 9 10:04:45 ds motion: [1] ioctl(VIDIOCGMBUF) - Error device does not suppor t memory map Apr 9 10:04:45 ds motion: [1] V4L capturing using read is deprecated! Apr 9 10:04:45 ds motion: [1] Motion only supports mmap Apr 9 10:04:45 ds motion: [1] Capture error calling vid_start

luvcview works fine with the camera on FC4 2.6.16-1 I am not sure whether this is a problem in uvcvideo or motion ( or both ).

-- EjnarSvejstrup - 09 Apr 2006

Follow up

A closer look at the code reveals that uvcvideo only supports V4L2, so aparrently its just a matter of time before motion supports this driver...

Comments

I totaly agree, as more and more webcams come out, uvc will be the only way to, especially for Logitech products(the biggest seller of webcams worldwide)

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-- GlennB - 20 Sep 2006

Current V4L2 patch already support cameras with uvcvideo that uses YUYV palette.

Look that support question answer :

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/SupportQuestion2007x01x06x004923

-- AngelCarpintero - 07 Jan 2007

-- AngelCarpintero - 07 Jan 2007

Comments

I'm using the latest SVN code refreshed today (13th Feb 2007). I have a Logitech Sphere using the latest uvcvideo code (from SVN) which works fine in both xawtv and kdetv.

I'm getting the following output:

# motion
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
[0] Motion running in setup mode.
[0] Thread 1 is from /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
[0] Thread 1 is device: /dev/video0 input 8
[0] Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 13687
[1] Thread started
[1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo"
[1] cap.card: "USB Video Class device"
[1] cap.bus_info: "0000:00:02.1"
[1] cap.capabilities=0x04000001
[1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] - STREAMING
[1] v4l2_select_input: name = "Camera", type 0x00000002, status 00000000
[1] - CAMERA
[1] Device doesn't support VIDIOC_G_STD
[1] Supported palettes:
[1] 0: MJPG (MJPEG)
[1] 1: YUYV (Uncompressed)
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.8 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] VIDIOC_TRY_FMT failed for format YUYV (Input/output error).
[1] ioctl(VIDIOCGMBUF) - Error device does not support memory map
[1] V4L capturing using read is deprecated!
[1] Motion only supports mmap.
[1] Capture error calling vid_start
[1] Thread finishing...

-- PaulSmith - 13 Feb 2007

Could you tell me what is the output of lsusb command for your camera ?

It should be some that are listed here http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

# lsusb

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:08ca Logitech, Inc.

-- AngelCarpintero - 13 Feb 2007

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:08cc Logitech, Inc.

However, I felt like it defeated me so I deleted everything, motion/uvdvideo and downloaded the source again and built from scratch. It works!

I do have one small issue, which is that the live webcam server on port 8081 just shows up as a black screen, but the images captured during motion detection are clear as crystal. I'll keep looking into it for a while and raise a new issue if it's nothing obvious.

-- PaulSmith - 13 Feb 2007

Unfortunately I'm experiencing exactly the same problem as PaulSmith, but this time with a Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000. Here is the output from lsusb:

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:08c5 Logitech, Inc.

And the output from Motion (svn r172) with uvcvideo (svn r89):

$ motion
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
[0] Motion running in setup mode.
[0] Thread 1 is from /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
[0] Thread 1 is device: /dev/video0 input 8
[0] Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 13687
[1] Thread started
[1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo"
[1] cap.card: "USB Video Class device"
[1] cap.bus_info: "0000:00:02.1"
[1] cap.capabilities=0x04000001
[1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] - STREAMING
[1] v4l2_select_input: name = "Camera", type 0x00000002, status 00000000
[1] - CAMERA
[1] Device doesn't support VIDIOC_G_STD
[1] Supported palettes:
[1] 0: MJPG (MJPEG)
[1] 1: YUYV (Uncompressed)
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.8 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] VIDIOC_TRY_FMT failed for format YUYV (Input/output error).
[1] ioctl(VIDIOCGMBUF) - Error device does not support memory map
[1] V4L capturing using read is deprecated!
[1] Motion only supports mmap.
[1] Capture error calling vid_start
[1] Thread finishing...

FYI - the camera works fine with LUVCview so I'm guessing it's not a driver issue but a problem with Motion?

-- NeilFreeman - 05 Mar 2007


I've tried motion with that camera and motion worked without problem, not sure what could be the problem ... maybe some "race condition" , please post your motion.conf file, because i guess that some parameter makes motion to fail.

-- AngelCarpintero - 05 Mar 2007

Thanks for the quick response. I have attached my current configuration file. It should be fairly standard as I didn't want to touch too many options until I knew the standard configuration worked ok.

-- NeilFreeman - 05 Mar 2007

Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 works fine with current svn version on my gentoo with kernel 2.6.19-r5

here is an ebuild:

# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-video/motion/motion-3.2.7.ebuild,v 1.4 2007/01/05 20:37:39 flameeyes Exp $

inherit eutils subversion

DESCRIPTION="Motion is a video motion detector with tracking-support for webcams." HOMEPAGE="http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome" ESVN_REPO_URI="http://www.lavrsen.dk/svn/motion/trunk" #ESVN_STORE_DIR="${PORTAGE_ACTUAL_DISTDIR-${DISTDIR}}/svc-src/" PKG_SUFFIX=""

LICENSE="GPL-2" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~ppc ~x86" IUSE="ffmpeg mysql postgres v4l"

DEPEND="sys-libs/zlib media-libs/jpeg ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg ) mysql? ( virtual/mysql ) postgres? ( dev-db/postgresql )" src_compile() { econf $(use_with v4l) $(use_with mysql) $(use_with postgres pgsql) $(use_with ffmpeg) || die "econfigure failed"

emake || die "emake failed" }

src_install() { make DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "install failed"

# install init-script newinitd ${FILESDIR}/motion.init motion || die

# copy configuration file cp ${D}/etc/motion-dist.conf ${D}/etc/motion.conf

# cleanup unused files cd ${D}/usr/share/doc/${P}/examples/ rm motion.init-Debian motion.init-RH motion.init-FreeBSD.sh }

pkg_postinst() { ewarn "You need to setup /etc/motion.conf before running" ewarn "motion for the first time." elog "Examples are available at /usr/share/doc/${P}/examples" elog elog "You can install motion detection as a service, use:" elog "rc-update add motion default" }

files/motion.init : #!/sbin/runscript # Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-video/motion/files/motion.init,v 1.1 2006/05/30 18:44:04 lu_zero Exp $

opts="${opts} reload"

depend() { need modules }

start() { ebegin "Starting motion detection" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/bin/motion eend $? }

stop() { ebegin "Stopping motion detection" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/bin/motion eend $? }

reload() { ebegin "Reloading motion detection configuration" start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --exec /usr/bin/motion eend $? }

-- NivVaizer - 31 Mar 2007

FeatureRequestForm edit

TopicTitle Support of uvc devices using uvcvideo
FeatureRequestStatus Implemented
SubmittedBy EjnarSvejstrup
I Attachment Action Size Date Who Comment
motion.confconf motion.conf manage 21 K 05 Mar 2007 - 23:25 UnknownUser Motion configuration file
Topic revision: r11 - 31 Mar 2007, NivVaizer
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