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1. Re: 30 seconds missing in video (Ronnie McMaster)
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 20:05:10 -0700
From: Ronnie McMaster <ronnie.mcmas...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] 30 seconds missing in video
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If you want the full recording of that 60 seconds, then set post_capture to
1200 which is derived from multiplying the amount of seconds by the number
of your frame rate, ie 60x20
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 8:00 PM Ronnie McMaster <ronnie.mcmas...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Event gap is why you ended up with two motion triggers combined into one
> video. Though it is 60 seconds, your post_capture capture is 60 frames or 3
> seconds.
>
> Thanks,
> Ronnie
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 7:28 PM Mathias Koerber <math...@koerber.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I have motion set up with the motion.conf below, and I find that
>> occasionally there are some seconds missing in a video,
>> which seems to happen when there is no action
>> (eg, one person exits the frame, there is a pause
>> of 30 seconds and then another person apprears in the same place)
>>
>> With the settings below I would have expected the movie to continue
>> until it saw a 60 second (event_gap) with no motion (ie less than 1500
>> pixels changing)
>>
>> I also get videos that are short (15 seconds or so at times)
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> daemon off
>> setup_mode off
>> log_file /var/log/motion/motion.log
>> log_level 6
>> target_dir /var/lib/motion
>> videodevice /dev/video0
>> width 800
>> height 600
>> framerate 20
>> text_left Door
>> text_right %t-%3v-%{fps}-%D\n%Y-%m-%d\n%T-%q
>> emulate_motion off
>> threshold 1500
>> despeckle_filter EedDl
>> minimum_motion_frames 5
>> event_gap 60
>> pre_capture 2
>> post_capture 60
>> picture_output best
>> picture_filename albums/%Y-%m-%d/thumbs/%C
>> movie_output on
>> movie_max_time 900
>> movie_quality 60
>> movie_codec mp4
>> movie_filename albums/%Y-%m-%d/%C
>> webcontrol_port 8080
>> webcontrol_localhost off
>> webcontrol_parms 0
>> stream_port 8081
>> stream_maxrate 1
>> stream_grey on
>> stream_quality 45
>> stream_preview_method 1
>> stream_localhost off
>> rotate 90
>> text_scale 3
>> text_changes on
>> auto_brightness 2
>> locate_motion_style box
>> locate_motion_mode preview
>> lightswitch_percent 80
>> text_event %Y%m%d-%H:%M:%S-%t-%3v-%q
>>
>>
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