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Today's Topics:
1. Re: I'm screwing something up, but what?.. (JB)
2. Re: I'm screwing something up, but what? <SOLVED...hopefully> (JB)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:08:29 -0500
From: JB <yona...@riseup.net>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] I'm screwing something up, but what?..
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On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 23:39:36 +1200
greg thomas <geete...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My uneducated guess is that you seem to have used the ';' character to
> comment out various parameters including the Netcam ones, but I suspect
> motion is still parsing these and is possibly not handling the value pairs
> directly. Try using the '#' character instead to remove the parameters your
> not using.
>
> Just a thought......
>
>
Good idea! Thanks! I'll try it as soon as I can and let the list know what
happened.
JB
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:58:56 -0500
From: JB <yona...@riseup.net>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] I'm screwing something up, but what?
<SOLVED...hopefully>
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On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:16:50 -0500
JB <yona...@riseup.net> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> <big SNIP>
Okay, it seems that I was getting ahead of myself when I was watching the log
file *size* grow over what I was used to with Motion 4.2.2.
With that version, when I'd start Motion, no matter with one camera or more
than one, the log file *size* would pop up at 172 kb and remain there.
With 4.3.1, I saw it go from 172kb to 385kb and I would hit my Motion stop
real fast so that the log wouldn't keep growing and growing.
It seems that the log file *size* actually *stopped* at 385kb, and even with
one or more cameras running the line 'motion_init: Substream not available.
Image sizes not modulo 16' is there for *all* cameras that Motion is running.
I still have no clue what that line means, but it doesn't seem to be hurting
anything and my Motion is working as it's supposed to. So apparently it was
just *ME* jumping the gun and worrying, probably because I wanted to make sure
the Motion build I'd made for Slackware was working correctly. As for that...I
tried to contact the maintainer for Motion on Slackware and it seems his
e-mail address is no longer in service. So, I'll see if I can get any
volunteers to test my build on their 14.2 x64 systems (I'll ask on
LinuxQuestions.org) and if it does okay for them also, I'll actually see if I
can maintain the package for Slackware.
As it stands though, at least on my Slackware 14.2 x64 system, Motion 4.3.1 is
working just fine. I'm sorry for the large e-mails and junk people skimmed
through to try and help, but I guess that's all a part of 'debugging', in a
way.
Anyway, thanks to all who offered suggestions.
JB
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