Motion
Motion is a V4L capture program supporting motion detection.
In other words, this software monitors the video signal from
one or more
cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has
changed.
Motion is a command line based tool. It has no graphical
user interface. Everything is setup either via the
command line or via configuration files.
Motion 3.2.12
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Price
Free to download
Size
0.4MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Kenneth Lavrsen and many contributors
Website
www.lavrsen.dk
System Requirements
Standard video4linux devices
libm, libresolv libdl, libpthread, libc, ld-linux, libcrypt, libnsl
libjpeg
libz
ffmpeg
Support
Sites:
Documentation,
FAQ,
SourceForge
Project Page, Mailing
List
Selected
Reviews:
Linux.com
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Features include:
- Output from motion:
- JPEG files
PPM format files
MPEG video sequences
- Access the webcam output from motion via a browser
- 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 libraries from
ffmpeg
- Take automated snapshots on regular intervals
- Take automated snapshots at irregular intervals using cron
- Executing external program when detecting movement
- Execute external program at the beginning of an event of
several motion detections
- Execute external program at the end of an event of several
motion detections
- Execute external program when a picture is saved
- Execute external program when a movie mpeg is created
(opened)
- Execite external program when a movie mpeg ends (closed)
- 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
- Has its own minimalistic web server
- User configurable and user defined on screen display
- Control via simple web interface
- 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
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Last Updated Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 08:42 AM EST
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