<![CDATA[Problem recording webcam with motion]]>Hello,

I'm trying to record video from my usb webcam to make a dashcam, so I have installed motion with opkg. By default motion create correct pictures but after I have modified the configuration like this:

max_movie_time 600
emulate_motion on
output_pictures off
target_dir /tmp/run/mountd/mmcblk0p1

but motion don't create anything.
Also I have an error when I start motion, maybe it's part of the solution?

root@Omega-C3FD:/etc/motion# motion
[0] [NTC] [ALL] conf_load: Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_output_movies"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_output_debug_movies"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_timelapse"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_timelapse_mode"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_bps"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_variable_bitrate"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_video_codec"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_deinterlace"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "movie_filename"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "timelapse_filename"
[0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Motion 3.4.0-Git-78ba2da Started
[0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Logging to file (/tmp/run/mountd/mmcblk0p1/motion.log)

Thanks for your help

]]>http://community.onion.io/topic/2915/problem-recording-webcam-with-motionRSS for NodeThu, 16 Apr 2026 15:06:36 GMTSat, 12 May 2018 09:10:56 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Problem recording webcam with motion on Sat, 12 May 2018 09:10:56 GMT]]>Hello,

I'm trying to record video from my usb webcam to make a dashcam, so I have installed motion with opkg. By default motion create correct pictures but after I have modified the configuration like this:

max_movie_time 600
emulate_motion on
output_pictures off
target_dir /tmp/run/mountd/mmcblk0p1

but motion don't create anything.
Also I have an error when I start motion, maybe it's part of the solution?

root@Omega-C3FD:/etc/motion# motion
[0] [NTC] [ALL] conf_load: Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_output_movies"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_output_debug_movies"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_timelapse"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_timelapse_mode"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_bps"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_variable_bitrate"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_video_codec"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "ffmpeg_deinterlace"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "movie_filename"
[0] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "timelapse_filename"
[0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Motion 3.4.0-Git-78ba2da Started
[0] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Logging to file (/tmp/run/mountd/mmcblk0p1/motion.log)

Thanks for your help

]]>http://community.onion.io/post/16815http://community.onion.io/post/16815Sat, 12 May 2018 09:10:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Problem recording webcam with motion on Sat, 12 May 2018 19:22:25 GMT]]>@Sebastien-Thiry

Omega2+ does not have GPU nor high amount of memory and spare CPU.
Pick a suitable platform is the way.

]]>http://community.onion.io/post/16816http://community.onion.io/post/16816Sat, 12 May 2018 19:22:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Problem recording webcam with motion on Mon, 14 May 2018 14:25:07 GMT]]>@Sebastien-Thiry
Seems like the version of motion you are using does not support direct video output . A simple workaround is to let motion output image series and then use ffmpeg to compile the images into a video afterwards.

Here is a some what related tutorial on capturing time-lapse video with Omega2 hope it helps
https://docs.onion.io/omega2-project-book-vol1/timelapse-camera.html

Here is how the final video looks like
https://vimeo.com/230518247

]]>http://community.onion.io/post/16817http://community.onion.io/post/16817Mon, 14 May 2018 14:25:07 GMT