Motion - Support Question 2015x 07x 30x 150540

Is it possible to track one stream for motion and record another on detection

Question

I am tracking streams from two cameras and the resolution is relatively big, providing good quality videos but putting the CPU under heavy load. The cameras can stream 3 versions of the captured video and I would like to track a low-res stream for motion, but when motion is detected, record off the hi-res stream. Can that be done? I am using the latest sackmotion code from github.

Environment

Motion version: sackmotion
ffmpeg version: 1.0.10
Libraries: ffmpeg
Server OS: debian
-- NikM - 30 Jul 2015

Answer

I don't have a ready to use answer, but an idea how this could be achieved.

For the low res cam you would define an on_event_start script, which enables the recording for the other cam via http API actions.
Likewise an on_event_end script would then be used to stop recording of the second cam.

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TopicTitle Is it possible to track one stream for motion and record another on detection
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Topic revision: r2 - 04 Sep 2015, MarkusK
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