motion 3.2.8

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 sequences
Main features:
- 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.
Enhancements:
- V4L2 devices are now supported along with V4L2_bayer, SN9C10X, MJPEG, and UYVY.
- Device status was enhanced.
- Debian packaging was improved.
- The SWF codec for movie creation was added.
- ucvideo track pan/tilt support was added.
- A FreeBSD directory for building ports was added.