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1. Resolution Issues ? Motion 4.5.1 (Barry Martin)
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:48:33 -0600
From: Barry Martin <barry3mar...@gmail.com>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Motion-user] Resolution Issues ? Motion 4.5.1
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Hi!
Having an issue with two of three Motion stations not giving the proper
resolution: stuck at 800x600; the USB cameras are capable of 1280x720
and 1920x1080 (running at 720).
The old Motion (Version 4.4.0) displays 720 without problem on all three
Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) units. New Motion (Version 4.5.1) works fine on one
of the units (1280x720) but the other two displaying the 800x600. Old is
Bullseye, new is Bookworm.
To make things easier for me with the new ?system? is I ?cloned? the SD
cards:
200 = Master connects via eth0
201 Clone Connects via wlan to 192.168.4.201
202 Clone Connects via wlan to 192.168.4.202
203 Clone Connects via wlan to 192.168.4.203
203 behaves: gives a 720 image.
201 and 202 do not behave: give a 800x600 image. I also tried cloning
203 to 201 ? still got the 4:3 image. Cameras are all essentially the
same: ELP brand, USB 2.0, and capable of up to 1920 (do with the
old/original Motion).
One thing I noted in 201 and 202?s motion.log is:
v4l2_pixfmt_select: Configuration palette index 17 (YU12) for 1280x720
doesn't work.
A few lines later messages of switching from 1280x720 to 800x600
Oddly enough 203 gives: vid_start: ?V4L2 device failed to open? though
the image is correct. LIS all three are Raspberry Pi 4?s and the SD
cards are duplicates except for the IP addresses.
I did try including ?palette 8? to force the MJPG mode ? didn?t work.
Motion is using camera1.conf ? I?ve changed the text and restarted
Motion, rebooted the Pi ? text updates, still get the 4:3.
$ cat /etc/motion/camera1.conf
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# /usr/etc/motion/camera1.conf
#
# This config file was generated by motion 4.5.1
###########################################################
# Configuration options specific to camera 1
############################################################
# User defined name for the camera.
camera_name MyCam1
# Numeric identifier for the camera.
camera_id 101
# The full URL of the network camera stream.
# netcam_url rtsp://yourcamera1ip:port/camera/specific/url
# v4l2_palette 8 # 8 = MPJG palette 21 = H.264 but not work
# Replaced by video_parms -- see
https://motion-project.github.io/4.6.0/motion_config.html#video_params
# Image width in pixels.
width 1280
# Image height in pixels.
height 720
# Text size
text_scale 4
# Text to be overlayed in the lower left corner of images
# text_left CAMERA 1
text_left Front Yard - CAM 1
# File name(without extension) for movies relative to target directory
# movie_filename CAM01_%t-%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S
movie_filename %m-%d/%v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S
<end config file>
Different RPi 4?s, different cameras ? same results.
Thanks in advance! Have a Merry Christmas/Happy Holiday!
Barry
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