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Today's Topics:
1. Conversion specifiers... (JB)
2. Re: <SOLVED> A quick question... (JB)
3. Re: Conversion specifiers... (Joris)
4. Re: Conversion specifiers... (JB)
5. Re: Conversion specifiers... (Dave Howorth)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:15:44 -0500
From: JB <yona...@riseup.net>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Motion-user] Conversion specifiers...
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Hi gang,
I'd like to be able to have the files of pictures/movies that get saved to my
directory to have a different 'text' name to them.
Presently they will have %Y%m%d on them and as the file name.
What I would prefer to have for both is day month year like this - 13 MAR 20
Looking at the 'Conversion specifiers' table in the Motion guide I don't see
any way to do this, does this mean it can't be done and the specifiers are the
'only' way to do things?
In KDE for example, I can set the date this way in the panel in the lower
right corner of the screen, so I was just curious if it could also be done in
Motion.
JB
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:57:23 -0500
From: JB <yona...@riseup.net>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] <SOLVED> A quick question...
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:10:54 -0500
JB <yona...@riseup.net> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I made a mask.pgm, but the Motion guide doesn't say where to put it to be
> read when I start Motion up. Where should it be placed?
>
>
<answers from rmbusy and Colin Law solved it>
Got it! Thanks you two!
JB
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:16:30 +0100
From: Joris <jo...@v5.be>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Conversion specifiers...
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JB,
As far as I know this is not possible from within motion's file spec.
My first, perhaps somewhat misguided, instinct would be to use a little
script to do the rename; to get you started: date -d "$FILENAMEDATE" +"%d
%b %g"
You could then run before accessing the files, or from cron or hook it into
motion.conf (on_event_end). Use common sense and caution based on your
disk, cpu and number of events ;-)
Kind regards,
Joris
Op vr 13 mrt. 2020 om 15:17 schreef JB <yona...@riseup.net>:
>
> Hi gang,
>
> I'd like to be able to have the files of pictures/movies that get saved
> to my
> directory to have a different 'text' name to them.
>
> Presently they will have %Y%m%d on them and as the file name.
>
> What I would prefer to have for both is day month year like this - 13
> MAR 20
>
> Looking at the 'Conversion specifiers' table in the Motion guide I don't
> see
> any way to do this, does this mean it can't be done and the specifiers
> are the
> 'only' way to do things?
>
> In KDE for example, I can set the date this way in the panel in the lower
> right corner of the screen, so I was just curious if it could also be
> done in
> Motion.
>
> JB
>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:12:51 -0500
From: JB <yona...@riseup.net>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Conversion specifiers...
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:16:30 +0100
Joris <jo...@v5.be> wrote:
> JB,
>
> As far as I know this is not possible from within motion's file spec.
>
> My first, perhaps somewhat misguided, instinct would be to use a little
> script to do the rename; to get you started: date -d "$FILENAMEDATE" +"%d
> %b %g"
> You could then run before accessing the files, or from cron or hook it into
> motion.conf (on_event_end). Use common sense and caution based on your
> disk, cpu and number of events ;-)
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Joris
>
Well drat. I kinda figured that but thought it best to ask. The script thing
would be just too much to mess with. Maybe, just maybe, if I can remember,
I'll try to find out how the KDE people do it with the clendar thing I spoke
about in my OP. Maybe it'll be something that isn't stuck to KDE and can be
used by anyone (I hope that made sense, heh, I'm not a programmer).
Thanks anyway, Joris, much appreciated.
JB
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 00:37:00 +0000
From: Dave Howorth <d...@howorth.org.uk>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Conversion specifiers...
Message-ID: <20200314003700.62617...@acer-suse.lan>
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:15:44 -0500
JB <yona...@riseup.net> wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
> I'd like to be able to have the files of pictures/movies that get
> saved to my directory to have a different 'text' name to them.
>
> Presently they will have %Y%m%d on them and as the file name.
>
> What I would prefer to have for both is day month year like this -
> 13 MAR 20
> Looking at the 'Conversion specifiers' table in the Motion guide
I'm not entirely sure I know what you mean by this, but I'm assuming
https://motion-project.github.io/motion_config.html#Configuration_OptionsTopic
Under Conversion Specifiers it says: "In addition to the above, the
conversion specifiers include the same options as for the C function
strftime (3)."
The documentation for strftime, as found for example at
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strftime.3.html says: " %b The
abbreviated month name according to the current locale. (Calculated
from tm_mon.)"
So I'd say I do see how to do this, but I'm not going to try; it seems
a bizarre thing to want to do.
PS I'm replying to your original mail since you chose to cut out the
relevant material I wanted to quote from your response to Joris.
> I don't see any way to do this, does this mean it can't be done and
> the specifiers are the 'only' way to do things?
>
> In KDE for example, I can set the date this way in the panel in the
> lower right corner of the screen, so I was just curious if it could
> also be done in Motion.
>
> JB
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