Feature Request: H264 Support?

Description

Those of us out there with slow upload speeds would love to have a lighter means of supplying the video feed. H264 is undoubtedly less of a network/disk pig than MJPG is, even though MJPG certainly has its uses. Is there any way to implement H264 support so network based cameras can utilize that feed for netcam_url instead of MJPG for use with Motion?

-- JasonSauders - 30 Nov 2012

Follow up

Comments

I second this. There are many cheap indoor/outdoor IP cameras that provide HD 264 but only very low resolution JPEG/MJPEG.

-- JohnBadger - 15 Jan 2014

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It's been over a year... nothing to add? Is Motion still in development?

-- JasonSauders - 19 Feb 2014

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For what it's worth, ZoneMinder's most recent (at the time of this posting) master branch has H264 support, and it works pretty well. Perhaps that could be used as a reference? (I can't lie, it's pretty nice running 2x the framerate at 25% the network load for no noticeable difference in image quality...)

-- JasonSauders - 27 Jun 2014

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Hopefully this gets integrated asap. Hikvision IP-Cams only do H264 in the mainstream. Any news?

-- AnastasiusNadelholz - 23 Aug 2014

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This is supported in the latest branches on git via rtsp.

-- MrDave - 25 Aug 2014

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My stream is: rtsp://192.168.1.199:554/ISAPI/streaming/channels/101?auth=YWRtaW46MTIzNDU= My motion version is the latest: 3.2.12. What do I have to do to access my camera? If you feel you can answer my question, I've asked the question here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/514828/how-can-i-access-my-ip-cam-with-motion

-- AnastasiusNadelholz - 25 Aug 2014

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I receive: 'Invalid netcam_url (rtsp://192.168.1.199:554/ISAPI/streaming/channels/101)' passkey is admin:12345

-- AnastasiusNadelholz - 25 Aug 2014

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What this project needs are programmers to do it. I am all for it. If someone wants to do it, let me know and I will grant access to the subversion. I am trying to learn Git but I am not comfortable with it so any remote Git branches will not be pulled in in near future

-- KennethLavrsen - 30 Aug 2014

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Kenneth, see here, it's working at least at 1080x720 resolution: http://askubuntu.com/questions/514828/how-can-i-access-my-ip-cam-with-motion

-- AnastasiusNadelholz - 01 Sep 2014

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