Freebsd default motion port almost works.

Question

I'm on Freebsd 7.1 Release. I just installed motion from /usr/ports/multimedia/motion the driver I'm using is gspca on a usb quickcam. Camera lights up and seems to work with this driver.

However, I am getting an error on startup. Can I get some help with this? It's so close but I don't know where to look. motion.conf available on request.

> motion
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /usr/local/etc/motion.conf
[0] Motion 3.2.11.1 Started
[0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3412992 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3415808
[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] Webcam port 8081
[0] Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 29335
[1] Thread 1 started
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.11.1 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] ioctl(VIDIOCGMBUF) - Error device does not support memory map
[1] V4L capturing using read is deprecated!
[1] Motion only supports mmap.
[1] Could not fetch initial image from camera
[1] Motion continues using width and height from config file(s)
[1] Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
[1] Started stream webcam server in port 8081
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 21
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 21
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 16
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 16
[1] Retrying until successful connection with camera
[1] ioctl(VIDIOCGMBUF) - Error device does not support memory map
[1] V4L capturing using read is deprecated!
[1] Motion only supports mmap.
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 13
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 12
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[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
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[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
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[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
[1] Retrying until successful connection with camera
[1] ioctl(VIDIOCGMBUF) - Error device does not support memory map
[1] V4L capturing using read is deprecated!
[1] Motion only supports mmap.
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
^C
[0] httpd - Finishing
[0] httpd Closing
[0] httpd thread exit
[1] End of event 1
[1] Raw changes:     0 - changes after 'EedDl':     0 - labels:   0 - noise level: 11
[1] Thread exiting
[1] Closing webcam listen socket
[1] Closing active webcam sockets
[0] Threads finished
[0] Motion terminating

Environment

Motion version:	3.2.11.1
ffmpeg version:	FFmpeg ver 0.5
Libraries:	ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql
Server OS:	FreeBSD 7.1

-- NiteFall - 01 Oct 2009

Follow up

Motion port to BSD , only was tested with pwcbsd kernel module using mmap() not read() , looks that gspca port for bsd still doesn't support mmap().

I've no info about gspca in bsd , but in linux was already improved to support mmap() , so a good idea could be ask to bsd ported of gspca.

-- AngelCarpintero - 08 Oct 2009

Answer