"Error capturing first image" on fresh install?

Question

Hi there,

I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10, an apt-get install motion from the repositories of 3.2.9, and a Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP. Out of the box with no changes to the config files motion starts, but crashes giving an "Error capturing first image" message. I haven't been able to find anything else in the logs. The camera works fine in ekiga and luvcview.

Any ideas? I'd love to get this up & running. Thank you!

andy@andy-linux:/etc/motion$ sudo motion -n
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file motion.conf
[0] Motion 3.2.9 Started
[0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3355136 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3409664
[0] Thread 1 is from motion.conf
[1] Thread 1 started
[1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo"
[1] cap.card: "UVC Camera (046d:08c2)"
[1] cap.bus_info: "0000:00:1f.2"
[1] cap.capabilities=0x04000001
[1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] - STREAMING
[1] Supported palettes:
[1] 0: MJPG (MJPEG)
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.9 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] Test palette MJPG (320x240)
[1] Using palette MJPG (320x240) bytesperlines 0 sizeimage 42666 colorspace 00000008
[1] VIDIOC_G_JPEGCOMP not supported but it should
[1] found control 0x00980900, "Brightness", range 0,255 
[1]    "Brightness", default 127, current 127
[1] found control 0x00980901, "Contrast", range 0,255 
[1]    "Contrast", default 32, current 32
[1] found control 0x00980902, "Saturation", range 0,255 
[1]    "Saturation", default 32, current 32
[1] found control 0x00980910, "Gamma", range 100,220 
[1]    "Gamma", default 220, current 220
[1] found control 0x00980913, "Gain", range 0,255 
[1]    "Gain", default 0, current 0
[1] mmap information:
[1] frames=4
[1] 0 length=42666
[1] 1 length=42666
[1] 2 length=42666
[1] 3 length=42666
[1] Using V4L2
[1] Error capturing first image
[1] Thread finishing...

Environment

Motion version:	3.2.9
ffmpeg version:
Libraries:	ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql
Server OS:	Ubuntu 8.10

-- AndyMax - 04 Nov 2008

Follow up

Please notice that current stable version is 3.2.11 , no won't backport fixes to old versions.

Get 3.2.11 and try to reproduce your issue.

-- AngelCarpintero - 06 Nov 2008

Answer

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

-- AngelCarpintero - 19 Nov 2008