Miscellaneous Information

Site Maintenance Topics For Developers

• ConfigFileOptions - list of all config options in alphabetical order - view only
• ConfigFileOptionsBulk - edit all the config options at once - use with care. Only devs have access to this
• CreateNewOption - A simple form used by developers to create a new option topic
• ConfigOptionForm - it the form used in Config Option Topics
• Group - lists all the Groups that the config options are divided into
• ConfigOptionTemplate - New config option pages are created from this template

Developers Info - mostly out of date

• Motion Mission Statement
• Motion Coding Standard
• Motion Profiling - How to use gprof to time the individual parts of Motion.
• Memory Leaks in Motion - How to use valgring to find memory leaks.
• CoreDumpInMotion
• External link to YUV420P definition - For programmers. This is the format that Motion uses internally for all video processing.
• Motion Frame Buffer Technique - Kenneth needed a place to share info on the video frame buffer.
• Motion Loop Overview - Kenneth created this overview of the code flow in motion.c motion_loop().
• Packaging motion - How to make a rpm or debian package of motion.
• Netcam Mjpeg Stream Dumps - Stream dumps of Network cameras for development testing.
• Overview Of Threads In Motion - What does all those threads do?
• Motion Options Alphabetical Manpage - The man page with the options section autogenerated.
• Kenneths Nerdo Meter - A tool to measure if a feature implementation is suitable to go into Motion.
• Motion Cnt Structure Overview - A topic to describe the global context structure cnt and all its elements.
• Compile With Developer Flags - A pendatic hysterical set of compiler flags but useful to ensure rebost code.
• Road Map
  • Motion Rearchitecture Discussion, Motion Watchdog, Extend Replace Conversion Specifiers Discussion, Motion Plugin Index, VideoForLinuxTwoDiscussion,

Hardware Specific

• PhilipsWebcamDriverInfo - Information related to the Philips Webcam Driver pwc and pwcx.
• Logitech Sphere Control - Controlling a Logitech Sphere pan/tilt with Motion.

Webserver Info (related to Motion)

• Secure Webcam Feeds Using Apache (With a bias towards Debian).
• Viewing a mjpeg stream with mplayer.