Motion Beta Release 3.2.8 beta1

Release Notes

3.2.8 beta1 - 29 Apr 2007

Beta Release 1

This release has been driven and stabilized by Angel Carpintero

Changes since 3.2.7

Features

• Added connection status for all devices available from http web interface. (Angel Carpintero). http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/FeatureRequest2006x11x09x050638
• Improved deb packaging, install the init.d script. (Angel Carpintero).
• Added swf codec to video creation (Bowser Pete, Andy Brown). http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/FFmpegSWFcreation
• Added V4L2 support http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/VideoForLinuxTwoDiscussion, (Krzysztof Blaszkowski, Angel Carpintero).
• Added support for V4L2_PIX_FMT_SBGGR8 ( bayer ), V4L2_PIX_FMT_SN9C10X, V4L2_PIX_FMT_MJPEG and V4L2_PIX_FMT_UYVY (Angel Carpintero).
• ucvideo track pan/tilt support ( Michal Licko ,Dirk Wesenberg and Angel Carpintero ) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/LinuxUvcTrackingPatch
• Added a FreeBSD directory to allow people from BSD to get a daily version and create a port. (Angel Carpintero).
• Removed mysql dependency from debian package and added a note to setup motion to run as daemon to create the pid file. (Angel Carpintero).
• Changed the way configure search mysql headers and libs, added 3 parameters to configure --without-mysql to disable support, --with-mysql-include directory of mysql.h and --with-mysql-lib directory of libmysqlclient.a or libmysqlclient.so (Angel Carpintero).

Bugfixes

• Removed a duplicate call to jpeg_destroy_decompress already is called from netcam_image_conv (Krzysztof Blaszkowski).
• Fix http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2006x10x10x081903, reconnet to mysql if connection dropped (Angel Carpintero).
• Fix memory management in ffmpeg.c http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2006x12x19x062432 (Rafis Khayrullin).
• Fix of ffmpeg_avcodec_log code (Alain Guidez). http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2007x03x25x074612
• Fix a segfault adding correct size to be used for bayer2rgb24() (Damian Wrobel) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2007x03x30x175913
• Fix an error in FreeBSD, the use of capture even fields depends on height value. (Angel Carpintero) http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2006x12x03x073610
• Fixed autodetection for VIA cpu, no needed to use --without-optimizecpu. Added many others (Angel Carpintero)
• Fix, don't remove pid file when motion reload config file( HUP signal ) (Angel Carpintero).
• Fix compilation broken by uvc track type. (Angel Carpintero)

Next Steps

• Release

Known Problems

• See the http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReports for open bugs.

Download

• http://lavrsen.dk/foswiki/pub/Motion/MotionRelease3x2x8beta1/motion-3.2.8_beta1.tar.gz

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Bug Reports

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Problem with MJPEG patch : 

[1] Thread started
[1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo"
[1] cap.card: "USB Video Class device"
[1] cap.bus_info: "0000:00:1f.2"
[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)
[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 MJPG (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...

Works fine with a march daily snapshot and mjpeg2.patch from AngelCarpintero

-- JeromeV - 23 Apr 2007

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I guess that problem has been reported before ... it was not a problem of motion code , well maybe a obcure race condiction , it was solved recompiling motion ... but the problem could be related to uvcvideo. Let me know if you can solve the problem and reproduce the problem later.

Thanks

-- AngelCarpintero - 23 Apr 2007

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Recompiling motion solved a part of the problem : motion now starts but image is ugly as I previouslay said in ths mailing list :

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=45D9B087.8000100%40ummagumma.org&forum_name=motion-user

It seems that mjpeg patch as not been applied in beta.

-- JeromeV - 25 Apr 2007

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As i asked in that post the patch is not planned to be released unless we cannot fix that issue using ffmpeg. Anyway i've create a patch against latest beta and svn trunk.

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MjpegToYUV420pPatch

-- AngelCarpintero - 29 Apr 2007

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So it will be impossible to have a mjpeg webcam and another normal webcam driven by the same motion instance ?

-- JeromeV - 30 Apr 2007

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Yes , the patch only changes the behaviour of MJPEG palette ,

3.2.8-beta1 handles MJPEG with ffmpeg  
3.2.8-beta1 + MjpegToYUV420pPatch handles MJPEG with mjpegtools

-- AngelCarpintero - 30 Apr 2007

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I have successfully compiled & tested 3.2.8beta1 on Linksys NSLU2 with Unslung 6.8. (This is a Linux re-flashed onto a Linksys NAS device).

I had to execute the following shell commands prior to 'configure' :

export LDFLAGS='-L/opt/lib'
export CCFLAGS='-I /opt/include'

I do this every time, I guess becuase Unslung is a somewhat non-standard Linux.

I also had to edit the Makefile to add '-lavutil' before '-lavformat -lavcodec'. This also has always been necessary. I don't know why - is it a mistake the 'configure' script is making becuase of the non-standard Linux? If it cannot be fixed, then there is no problem, I am writing it here to help others.

-- SimonW - 02 May 2007

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-- AngelCarpintero - 29 Apr 2007