motion motion is a motion detector for video4linux devices.
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motion is a motion detector for video4linux devices. Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. Or in other words, it can detect motion.The program is written in C and is made for the Linux operating system.Motion is a command line based tool. It has absolutely no graphical user interface. Everything is setup either via the command line or via a set of configuration files (simple ASCII files that can be edited by any ASCII editor).The output from motion can be:· jpg files· ppm format files· mpeg video sequencesHere are some key features of "motion":· Taking snapshots of movement· Watch multiple video devices at the same time· Watch multiple inputs on one capture card at the same time· Live streaming webcam (using multipart/x-mixed-replace)· Real time creation of mpeg movies using libavcodec from ffmpeg· Take automated snapshots on regular intervals· Take automated snapshots at irregular intervals using cron· Sending an e-mail when detecting movement· Sending a SMS message when detecting movement· Execute external commands when detecting movement· Motion tracking· Feed events to an MySQL or PostgreSQL database.· Feed video back to a video4linux loopback for real time viewing· Web interface using Motion Related Projects such as motion.cgi, Kenneths Webcam Package, Kevins Webpage, X-Motion and many more.· User configurable and user defined on screen display.· Control via xml-rpc - small control binary to control motion while running· Automatic noise and threshold control· Ability to control the pan/tilt of a Logitech Sphere (or Orbit) camera· Highly configurable display of text on images.· High configurable definition of path and file names of the stored images and films.What's New in This Release:Features * Removed debian ( to avoid conflicts with debian package) and FreeBSD ( no needed to deploy BSD port here ) directories. ( Angel Carpintero ) * Added --chuid motion to debian init.d script. ( Angel Carpintero ) * Added Flash video format (FLV) to ffmpeg. http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/FeatureRequest2007x07x19x131921 (Timo Taskinen). * Added FFV1 ( FF video codec 1 ) codec , Lossless encoding http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/LosslessEncoding (Andrew Hamilton).Bugfixes * Fix segfault in webhttpd.c on motion restart (Angel Carpintero) * Fix segfault in debian http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2007x09x24x175945 (Angel Carpintero) * Fix http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391055 , change motion man page , -d requieres level. (Angel Carpintero) * Handle mjpeg decoding and fix color issue adding mjpegtools dependecy http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MjpegColorIssue http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MjpegToYUV420pPatch (Marius Rieder, Angel Carpintero). * Add debug level > 5 to get logs from v4l2_select_input, v4l2_set_control and v4l2_set_input. (Angel Carpintero) * Fix process_id_file when is passed from command line (Angel Carpitero)

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