BUG: The streaming netcam feature doesn't appear to work with the Panasonic KX-HCM280.

The streaming netcam feature used with a Panasonic KX-HCM280 produces errors and terminates motion.

Security is enabled on the camera.

netcam_userpass motion:debug

As a sanity check, I entered the URL (http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxxx/nphMotionJpeg?Resolution=320x240&Quality=Clarity) into my browser (IE); it produces a 'save file' dialog box and starts a never ending download of the stream as expected.

Test case

Here are the relevant output files:

motion output:
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$ ../motion/bin/motion
Processing thread 0 - config file motion.conf
Processing thread 1 - config file /usr/config/camera1.properties
Webcam port for thread 1 is 0
Thread1 device: http://192.168.254.51:10051/nphMotionJpeg?Resolution=320x240&Quality=Clarity input: -1
Netcam: thread 1: starting...
[HTTP/1.0 200 OK]
Netcam: mjpeg stream
Netcam: netcam->boundary_string [--myboundary]
Netcam: thread 1: thread PID: 5117
Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment
Not a JPEG file: starts with 0xff 0xd9
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.
[98 more of these messages]
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.
.

Not a JPEG file: starts with 0xff 0xd9
Thread exiting
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/var/log/messages:
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Jan 15 18:39:31 cpe1 motion: Processing thread 0 - config file motion.conf
Jan 15 18:39:31 cpe1 motion: Unknown config option: "adjust_rate"
Jan 15 18:39:31 cpe1 motion: Unknown config option: "jpg_cleanup"
Jan 15 18:39:31 cpe1 motion: Unknown config option: "mpeg_encode"
Jan 15 18:39:31 cpe1 motion: Unknown config option: "output_all_on"
Jan 15 18:39:31 cpe1 motion: Unknown config option: "sql_log_timelapse"
Jan 15 18:39:31 cpe1 motion: Processing thread 1 - config file /usr/config/camera1.properties
Jan 15 18:39:31 cpe1 motion: Netcam: thread 1: starting...
Jan 15 18:39:32 cpe1 motion: Somebody stole the video device, lets hope we got his picture
Jan 15 18:39:33 cpe1 motion: motion terminating
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(Note: I still have some extraneous motion parameters)

The following Panasonic API guide PDF document provides detailed info for the stream contents on page 7:

http://panasonic.co.jp/pcc/products/en/netwkcam/download/us/document/cgi_interface_v2.pdf

Environment

Motion version:	3.1.18-snap10
ffmpeg version:	0.4.8
Shared libraries:	curl, xmlrpc, ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql
Server OS:	RH Linux 2.4.21-20.EL

-- BruceDurham - 16 Jan 2005

Follow up

I've been looking at panasonic documentation , it doesn't support content-length field and the format of the stream seems a bit strange.

* There's not \r\n between content-type and start of image data either end of image and boundary string.

If you can provide me the ip of the camera i can debug remotely.

-- AngelCarpintero - 16 Jan 2005

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Please try last snapshot MotionRelease3x1x18snap11

-- AngelCarpintero - 23 Jan 2005

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Here is the camera external access info that you've requested:

http://67.169.147.117:10051 (username/password=motion/debug).

I've tried snap11, however the following messages are still appearing with the nphMotionJpeg URL and then motion quits:

$ ../motion/bin/motion
Processing thread 0 - config file motion.conf
Processing thread 1 - config file /usr/config/camera1.properties
Webcam port for thread 1 is 0
Thread1 device: http://192.168.254.51:10051/nphMotionJpeg?Resolution=320x240&Quality=Standard input: -1
Netcam: thread 1: starting...
[HTTP/1.0 200 OK]
Netcam: mjpeg stream
Netcam: netcam->boundary_string [--myboundary]
Netcam: thread 1: thread PID: 26806
Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x0a 0x0c
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.
.
(99 more of these)
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.
$

/var/log/messages shows:

Jan 24 01:14:15 cpe1 motion: Netcam: thread 1: starting...
Jan 24 01:14:20 cpe1 motion: Capture error Success

-- BruceDurham - 24 Jan 2005

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I've tried it uses a weird mjpeg format that even mozilla/firefox is not able to understand . Anyway i'll try to know how to integrate ... but i don't promise anything.

-- AngelCarpintero - 25 Jan 2005

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I've a patch that fix your problem , i'll release as soon as i verify there's not race condictions with others cameras.

-- AngelCarpintero - 06 Feb 2005

Fix record

Fixed with post-3 patch , reopen if errors remains.

-- AngelCarpintero - 08 Feb 2005

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Bugfix released in 3.1.19

There is a newer related bug reported http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x03x06x023010 which is still open at the time this bug is closed.

-- KennethLavrsen - 10 Mar 2005