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Today's Topics:
1. Questions on CPU load and motion detection level (Willy Gardiol)
2. Re: Questions on CPU load and motion detection level (tosiara)
3. Re: Questions on CPU load and motion detection level (Colin Law)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:06:21 +0100
From: Willy Gardiol <wi...@gardiol.org>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Motion-user] Questions on CPU load and motion detection
level
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Hi!
i have installed Motion with success, it's an amazing piece of software
and i love it so far.
My setup is:
5 IP Axis cameras (configured using URL
http://10.0.0.X/axis-cgi/jpg/image.cgi?resolution=1280x1024)
4 Chinese V380 IP cameras (configured using URL
rtsp://10.0.0.Y:554/live/ch00_1)
The server is a small form PC with a Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1840 @
2.80GHz, 8Gb RAM and some storage space.
Things works, but i have a few areas where i would like to better
understand what is going on.
I see that, with motion detection active, some cameras are always
recording (300Gb+ in a couple of days) while others simply never detect
any motion.
CPU load is quite high, on the 40% level constantly IF i disable motion
detection. With motion detection active, it goes up to 80/90% of CPU.
I tried adding the option "movie_passthrough on" to the cameras, but
nothing has changed.
My questions:
1. Should i specify a width/height for each camera? The two set of
cameras have different resolutions
2. How can i check motion detection, and tune it so that it is more
reasonable?
3. How can i lower CPU usage? Change video codecs? Reduce image resolution?
thank you, also if you can point me to resources to deepen these topics.
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:31:26 +0200
From: tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Questions on CPU load and motion detection
level
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I'd recommend you to connect a single camera and play with params
before you get familiar with how motion works. And then add on by one
any additional
Height and width must be specified in the config
It is normal to see such cpu usage if you are using motion detection
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 3:23 PM Willy Gardiol via Motion-user
<motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hi!
>
> i have installed Motion with success, it's an amazing piece of software
> and i love it so far.
>
> My setup is:
>
> 5 IP Axis cameras (configured using URL
> http://10.0.0.X/axis-cgi/jpg/image.cgi?resolution=1280x1024)
>
> 4 Chinese V380 IP cameras (configured using URL
> rtsp://10.0.0.Y:554/live/ch00_1)
>
> The server is a small form PC with a Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1840 @
> 2.80GHz, 8Gb RAM and some storage space.
>
> Things works, but i have a few areas where i would like to better
> understand what is going on.
>
> I see that, with motion detection active, some cameras are always
> recording (300Gb+ in a couple of days) while others simply never detect
> any motion.
>
> CPU load is quite high, on the 40% level constantly IF i disable motion
> detection. With motion detection active, it goes up to 80/90% of CPU.
>
> I tried adding the option "movie_passthrough on" to the cameras, but
> nothing has changed.
>
> My questions:
>
> 1. Should i specify a width/height for each camera? The two set of
> cameras have different resolutions
>
> 2. How can i check motion detection, and tune it so that it is more
> reasonable?
>
> 3. How can i lower CPU usage? Change video codecs? Reduce image resolution?
>
>
> thank you, also if you can point me to resources to deepen these topics.
>
>
>
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:21:00 +0000
From: Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Questions on CPU load and motion detection
level
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And make sure the size in the config file matches exactly that from
the camera (you can view the camera in VLC, for example, and check
what the image size is if necessary). If Motion has to resize that
will use a lot of CPU.
Colin
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 13:32, tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd recommend you to connect a single camera and play with params
> before you get familiar with how motion works. And then add on by one
> any additional
> Height and width must be specified in the config
> It is normal to see such cpu usage if you are using motion detection
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 3:23 PM Willy Gardiol via Motion-user
> <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > i have installed Motion with success, it's an amazing piece of software
> > and i love it so far.
> >
> > My setup is:
> >
> > 5 IP Axis cameras (configured using URL
> > http://10.0.0.X/axis-cgi/jpg/image.cgi?resolution=1280x1024)
> >
> > 4 Chinese V380 IP cameras (configured using URL
> > rtsp://10.0.0.Y:554/live/ch00_1)
> >
> > The server is a small form PC with a Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1840 @
> > 2.80GHz, 8Gb RAM and some storage space.
> >
> > Things works, but i have a few areas where i would like to better
> > understand what is going on.
> >
> > I see that, with motion detection active, some cameras are always
> > recording (300Gb+ in a couple of days) while others simply never detect
> > any motion.
> >
> > CPU load is quite high, on the 40% level constantly IF i disable motion
> > detection. With motion detection active, it goes up to 80/90% of CPU.
> >
> > I tried adding the option "movie_passthrough on" to the cameras, but
> > nothing has changed.
> >
> > My questions:
> >
> > 1. Should i specify a width/height for each camera? The two set of
> > cameras have different resolutions
> >
> > 2. How can i check motion detection, and tune it so that it is more
> > reasonable?
> >
> > 3. How can i lower CPU usage? Change video codecs? Reduce image resolution?
> >
> >
> > thank you, also if you can point me to resources to deepen these topics.
> >
> >
> >
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> > Motion-user mailing list
> > Motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
> > https://motion-project.github.io/
> >
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>
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