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  • Re: Motion Tutorial?

    From nev young@3:770/3 to Chris Schram on Thursday, May 19, 2022 09:45:18
    On 02/03/2022 20:54, Chris Schram wrote:
    My brain hurts! I want to try out using Motion with a generic webcam,
    but I can't seem to penetrate the documentation. Can someone point me in
    the direction of some sample code to help me get started?

    Did you ever get this working?

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  • From Chris Schram@3:770/3 to nev young on Thursday, May 19, 2022 09:22:07
    On 2022-05-19, nev young <newsforpasiphae1953@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
    On 02/03/2022 20:54, Chris Schram wrote:
    My brain hurts! I want to try out using Motion with a generic webcam,
    but I can't seem to penetrate the documentation. Can someone point me in
    the direction of some sample code to help me get started?

    Did you ever get this working?

    I had to conclude that my old generic USB webcam was having very poor
    relations with my Pi and/or Motion, so I have surrendered for now. I did
    make a couple of attempts to acquire an official Pi camera, but the only
    ones I could find were at Amazon at extremely inflated prices.

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  • From meff@3:770/3 to Chris Schram on Friday, May 20, 2022 01:35:56
    On 2022-05-19, Chris Schram <chrispam1@me.com> wrote:
    I had to conclude that my old generic USB webcam was having very poor relations with my Pi and/or Motion, so I have surrendered for now. I did
    make a couple of attempts to acquire an official Pi camera, but the only
    ones I could find were at Amazon at extremely inflated prices.

    I haven't used Motion but I have streamed USB webcams before. I was
    wondering what codec you used on the RasPi? I often stream using
    ffmpeg/RTSP on an MBP I have at home but that uses a
    hardware-accelerated x264 decoder. I guess at low resolution this
    isn't an issue?

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  • From A. Dumas@3:770/3 to meff on Friday, May 20, 2022 02:23:35
    meff <email@example.com> wrote:
    I haven't used Motion but I have streamed USB webcams before. I was
    wondering what codec you used on the RasPi? I often stream using
    ffmpeg/RTSP on an MBP I have at home but that uses a
    hardware-accelerated x264 decoder. I guess at low resolution this
    isn't an issue?

    https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=1628856#p1628856

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