Motion and dv4l, problem similar to Support Question 2008x 08x 14x 014531?

Question

Motion does not start in conjunction with dv4l, showing errors, se below. Using other applications through /dev/video1, the images are: camorama: ok (but the program crash when I click the mouse out of program's window) vlc: ok camstream: too much blue-coloured

I tried to follow the instruction on motion-wiki, but no result, should I use motion 3.2.11? I would prefer ubuntu's version, bu I can try it.. Thanks for all info do you need motion.conf?

Motion output:
root@prok:/etc/motion# motion -n -d 9
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file motion.conf
[0] Motion 3.2.9 Started
[0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3352064 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3344896
[0] Thread 1 is from motion.conf
[1] Thread 1 started
[1] Not a V4L2 device?
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.9 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] Using VIDEO_PALETTE_YUV420P palette
[1] Using V4L1
[1] Failed to open video loopback
[1] Thread finishing...

dv4l output in the meanwhile:
davide@prok:~$ sudo dv4l
use /dev/video1 in your webcam application

>here starts motion as above<

VIDIOCMCAPTURE invalid format 15
VIDIOCMCAPTURE invalid format 8
VIDIOCMCAPTURE invalid format 1

ffmpeg -version
FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 --disable-debug --enable-shared --prefix=/usr
  libavutil version: 1d.49.3.0
  libavcodec version: 1d.51.38.0
  libavformat version: 1d.51.10.0
  built on Jul 23 2008 22:38:24, gcc: 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)
ffmpeg      SVN-rUNKNOWN
libavutil   3212032
libavcodec  3352064
libavformat 3344896

Environment

Motion version:	3.2.11
ffmpeg version:	see above
Libraries:	ffmpeg
Server OS:	ubuntu 8.04, 2.6.24-19-generic

-- DavideSandini - 11 Jan 2009

Follow Up

I never used dv4l .. but looking at motion messages :

[1] Failed to open video loopback

Doesn't look good , be sure you load vloopback and d4vl properly.

You didn't give many details like your motion.conf and your video/virtual devices ( vloopback , dv4l ).

Last but not least OF COURSE you should use 3.2.11 ( i did some deb for hardy and also there's deb of 3.2.11 in ppa )

-- AngelCarpintero - 14 Jan 2009

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Answer

No feedback. Probably fixed in current stable or svn version of motion / vloopback.

-- AngelCarpintero - 09 Aug 2009