couldn't get IP-Cam L-Series working with motion

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Hi,
I bought a IP-Cam - called L-Series - a PTZ-Cam (without zoom) because in the description they wrote "works with Linux".
After a couple of nights I don't get it to work with motion. So perhaps someone of you can help me?

With Firefox I can see the videostream over http://<IP>/videostream.cgi?/loginuse=<user>?loginpas=<password>?

So I put in motion.conf:

netcam_url  http://<IP>/videostream.cgi?
netcam_userpass <user>:<password>;
netcam_http keep_alive
other settings: default

System is OpenSuse 13.1

/var/log/messages | grep motion gives:

2014-01-29T22:05:30.984950+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ALL] conf_load: Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion.conf
2014-01-29T22:05:30.985553+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;netcam_http&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:30.985980+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;webcam_port&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:30.986485+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;webcam_quality&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:30.986916+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;webcam_motion&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:30.988096+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;webcam_maxrate&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:30.988762+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;webcam_localhost&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:30.990566+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;webcam_limit&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:30.991945+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;control_port&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:30.993890+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;control_localhost&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:30.994546+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using default log level (NTC) (6)
2014-01-29T22:05:30.994901+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Motion Git-8619d7c17ce112e7196975905c6e840f345141ba Started
2014-01-29T22:05:30.995251+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Logging to syslog
2014-01-29T22:05:30.995537+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using default log type (ALL)
2014-01-29T22:05:30.995821+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using log type (ALL) log level (NTC)
2014-01-29T22:05:30.996173+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ALL] become_daemon: Motion going to daemon mode
2014-01-29T22:05:30.996420+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Motion running as daemon process
2014-01-29T22:05:30.996882+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ENC] ffmpeg_init: ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3614565 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3609448
2014-01-29T22:05:30.997283+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Thread 1 is from /etc/motion.conf
2014-01-29T22:05:30.997666+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Thread 1 is device: http://192.168.178.36/videostream.cgi input -1
2014-01-29T22:05:30.998051+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Stream port 0
2014-01-29T22:05:30.999655+01:00 localhost motion: [0] [NTC] [ALL] main: Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 3898
2014-01-29T22:05:31.000066+01:00 localhost motion: [1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_init: Thread 1 started , motion detection Enabled
2014-01-29T22:05:31.000589+01:00 localhost motion: [1] [ALR] [NET] netcam_start: Network Camera thread starting... for url (http://192.168.178.36/videostream.cgi)
2014-01-29T22:05:31.001022+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [NTC] [ALL] conf_load: Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion.conf
2014-01-29T22:05:31.001320+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;netcam_http&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:31.001543+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;webcam_port&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:31.001755+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;webcam_quality&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:31.001965+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;webcam_motion&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:31.002175+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;webcam_maxrate&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:31.002455+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;webcam_localhost&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:31.002751+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;webcam_limit&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:31.002963+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;control_port&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:31.003173+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option &#34;control_localhost&#34;
2014-01-29T22:05:31.003394+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using default log level (NTC) (6)
2014-01-29T22:05:31.003607+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Motion Git-8619d7c17ce112e7196975905c6e840f345141ba Started
2014-01-29T22:05:31.003816+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Logging to syslog
2014-01-29T22:05:31.004028+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using default log type (ALL)
2014-01-29T22:05:31.004246+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using log type (ALL) log level (NTC)
2014-01-29T22:05:31.004455+01:00 localhost motion[3897]: [0] [NTC] [ALL] become_daemon: Motion going to daemon mode
2014-01-29T22:05:31.031226+01:00 localhost motion: [1] [NTC] [NET] netcam_read_first_header: Found Conn: close header (&#39;Connection: close&#39;)
2014-01-29T22:05:31.032646+01:00 localhost motion: [1] [NTC] [NET] netcam_setup_html: connected, going on to read image.
2014-01-29T22:05:31.056624+01:00 localhost motion: [1] [NTC] [ALL] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
2014-01-29T22:05:31.059528+01:00 localhost motion: [1] [ALR] [NET] netcam_handler_loop: Camera handler thread [2] started
2014-01-29T22:05:31.060907+01:00 localhost motion: [1] [NTC] [ALL] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture buffer to 4 items
2014-01-29T22:05:31.061675+01:00 localhost motion: [1] [WRN] [NET] netcam_next: called with no data in buffer
2014-01-29T22:05:31.283810+01:00 localhost motion: message repeated 22 times: [ [1] [WRN] [NET] netcam_next: called with no data in buffer]
2014-01-29T22:05:58.245723+01:00 localhost motion: [1] [NTC] [NET] netcam_read_html_jpeg: Potential split boundary - 1447 chars flushed, 1 re-positioned

Thanks für an advice.

Michael

Hi,
got it now working with the following net-settings:

netcam_url http://<IP-of-Cam>/videostream.cgi
netcam_userpass <user>:<password>
netcam_http keep_alive
netcam_tolerant_check on

Perhaps this helps someone.

Greetings

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