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1. Re: Recorded videos freeze after several seconds (Jon Wedell)
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Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 17:13:25 +0000
From: Jon Wedell <jonwed...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Recorded videos freeze after several
seconds
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> You have disclosed your ID and password in the attached log.
>
Argh. Edited it out in one place, missed it in another. I don't use the
same username/password anywhere else, but thanks for the heads-up.
> This leak was addressed in the most current version of Motion so it
> appears that you are not running the current release. Also included in the
> updated version are revisions to creation of movies.
>
Updated to 4.1.1-1.
Current status:
When always recording via the configuration the file is still corrupted.
This time VLC doesn't display any video, just all green.
When attempting to use the API to change the configuration values, I now
get a "Not Valid Command" response:
"<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>Not Valid Command</h1>
<p>The requested URL is not valid Command.</p>
</body>
</html>"
Also, when viewing the web configuration option change page I don't have
the option to set any configuration values (the dropdown isn't populated):
[image: image.png]
New motion.log and corrupted video file attached.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Jon
MrDave
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> On 2/3/2018 9:12 AM, Jon Wedell wrote:
>
> Interesting. The video has the same sort of corruption when I set the
> motion configuration parameters via the static configuration files and
> start running it. This didn't used to be the case, the videos used to
> record properly. I have multiple cameras and recording with any of them
> triggers this issue. Also worth noting is that I have two different types
> of IP cameras and since the issue affects both I suspect it has to do with
> motion rather than the cameras themselves.
>
> I updated my configuration to have just one camera and the issue persists.
> I've attached the motion log and an example file. If you look at the time
> on the upper right of the video you will see it stop after ~2 seconds,
> whereas the video runtime is 6 seconds.
>
> I could try recording jpegs instead and make videos, but I would really
> only want to do that as a last resort. Hopefully I can figure out this
> issue and get the videos working directly. Especially since they were
> working before.
>
> Thanks for your help everyone.
>
> Best,
> Jon
>
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>
> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 6:14 AM <dou...@highmoor.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Possibly of no relevance but on the occasion I've experimented with video
>> I discovered a lot of problems with frozen playback. Using mplayer for
>> example, the timer would continue to advance but playback would be frozen.
>> This was when I configured motion to create video 'on the fly'.
>>
>> If instead I created video manually using the jpegs it was fine.
>>
>> As Colin says, I'd try and eliminate IR from the enquiry, then perhaps,
>> if you have raw jpegs, create a video from them and see if that's ok.
>>
>> Dougie
>>
>>
>> On 01/02/18 20:51, Jon Wedell wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using IR motion sensors to turn recording on and off via the motion
>> API. I've found using these sensors to trigger the recording to be more
>> reliable than relying on detecting motion from the frames. I'm encountering
>> an issue where only the first 1-3 seconds of the video I record is actual
>> video, and then the frame freezes for the remaining duration of the
>> recording time.
>>
>> To activate the motion recording, I make the following API calls (using
>> the python requests library):
>>
>> # Enable video recording
>> r = requests.get("http://%s:%s/%s/config/set?ffmpeg_output_movies=%s"; %
>> (args.host, args.port, camera, state), auth=(args.user, args.password))
>> # Fake constant motion
>> r = requests.get("http://%s:%s/%sconfig/set?emulate_motion=%s"; %
>> (args.host, args.port, camera, state), auth=(args.user, args.password))
>>
>> And to disable recording when the motion event ends I use the same
>> commands but with "state" set to "off" rather than "on".
>>
>> The recorded videos play for however long I have "ffmpeg_output_movies"
>> and "emulate_motion" set to "on", but only the first 1-3 seconds are actual
>> live video before the video freezes.
>>
>> It seems like a bug, but I'm writing in case I'm doing something that
>> wasn't intended.
>>
>> Thanks for the help,
>> Jon
>>
>>
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