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1. Re: Motion crashing regularly (Dave Howorth)
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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 11:39:49 +0000
From: Dave Howorth <d...@howorth.org.uk>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Motion crashing regularly
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On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 09:22:17 +0000
Ian Smith <ian.smit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Many thanks indeed for all your help.
>
> Having disabled the USB camera from Motion, Motion has not crashed
> since.
>
> The camera works fine with e.g. Cheese and VLC, and I would argue
> that Motion (and it seems to be one library) crashes - presumably -
> on receipt of corrupt or malformed data should not cause a crash, so
> I feel this is a "feature" that should be changed so it doesn't cause
> a crash!
I think the phrase is "patches welcome" :) i.e. if you can identify
exactly what is causing the crash and work out a sensible way to stop
it then please send a patch to fix your problem. Failing that then the
least that is needed is a precise way to duplicate the specific problem.
> My thanks again,
>
> Kind Regards,
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