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Today's Topics:
1. Re: How to record a video (Harlan Daneker)
2. Re: How to record a video (Barry Martin)
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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 08:18:52 -0400
From: Harlan Daneker <hdane...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] How to record a video
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movie_output uses ffmpeg to encode
movie_output
- Type: Boolean
- Range / Valid values: on, off
- Default: on
*Use ffmpeg libraries to encode movies* of the motion. This option
generates a new movie at the beginning of each new event and appends to the
movie for each motion detected within the same event. The current event
ends when the time defined by the 'event_gap' option has passed with no
motion detected. At the next detection of motion a new movie is started.
On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 8:02?AM Mick Sulley <m...@sulley.info> wrote:
> Yes it is.
> On 04/07/2024 12:11, Harlan Daneker wrote:
>
> Do you have FFmpeg installed?
>
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 6:02?AM Mick Sulley <m...@sulley.info> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> Running motionplus, but I do have "movie_output on"
>>
>> I have changed the target_dir in the Camera section to one in my home to
>> prevent any permission problems, but still no videos
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>> Mick
>>
>>
>> On 04/07/2024 10:07, chuck elliot wrote:
>>
>> You don't need a database. Look for
>>
>> movie_output <on/off>
>>
>> in motion.conf
>>
>> "on" should get you videos stored in the directory specified by
>>
>> target_dir </path/to//videos>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03/07/2024 22:38, Mick Sulley wrote:
>>
>> I have installed MotionPlus on a Pi5 with bookworm with a single Pi v3
>> camera. It is working, in that I can see the picture on a webpage on my
>> desktop. How do I set it to record on motion detection? I read that it
>> needs a database, so I added commands to create a sqlite3 database, but
>> it didn't create it following a reboot.
>>
>> The log file showed that it couldn't create the database, don't know
>> why, so I then manually created the database and rebooted again. The
>> log now says that it cannot open the database.
>>
>> Questions
>>
>> Do I need a database in order to capture videos?
>>
>> Why does motionplus fail to open my database? I can open it from
>> command line.
>>
>> How do I set motionplus to record on motion detection?
>>
>> I have attached my config and log files.
>>
>> Sorry if these are very basic questions but I cannot find the answers in
>> the docs
>>
>> Mick
>>
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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 07:24:54 -0500
From: Barry Martin <barry3mar...@gmail.com>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] How to record a video
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Chuck:
> You don't need a database. Look for
>
> movie_output <on/off>
>
> in motion.conf
>
> "on" should get you videos stored in the directory specified by
>
> target_dir </path/to//videos>
>
Can you write to your storage directory?? Here I use a remote directory
(on a NAS) and I needed to fiddle with permissions and sharing.
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