changelog

video motion detection of linux base

   * Fixed a bug in the rgb2yuv420p function. (Daniel Ladd)
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x03x30x011107
   * Fixed a bug of locate feature for movement images combined with the
     new output_normal best feature (Joerg Weber)
   * More Netcam Stability Fixes (snap11-post1-4) (Christopher Price)
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/NetcamStabilityPatch
      * Reworked thread signal/wait conditions, should fix some race conditions.
      * Use gettimeofday() to determine thread timeouts, results in better accuracy.
      * Adjusted condition timeouts to smaller values due to usage of gettimeofday()
        and rework of thread signal/wait conditions.
      * Adjusted reconnection retries to 60 (every minute for an hour).
      * Fix bug where motion will not quit if requested when reconnecting.
      * Cruft, feature creep and redudant code removed.
      * Consolated reconnection capability to unified netcam_reconnect function.
      * Rework netcam_start logic, minimize startup variables.
      * Rework netcam_stream_read and netcam_single_read logic.
      * Minor changes to netcam_next logic.
      * Fix bug in streaming camera without content-length, recent mod broke.
      * Fix bug in startup of single image reads without content-length.
   * Motion Guide refactored completely for 3.2.1 with better web navigation and
     auto generation of pages. Makefile updated so that the Motion TWiki topic
     MotionGuideOneLargeDocument is fetched when updating the guide and making
     releases. (Kenneth Lavrsen).

snap13
   * Removed the debug_parameter option which had no use. Programmers can still
     use it because the code is only commented out. This change required a small
     update in the code that rewrites motion.conf so that a remote control command
     to write the config files still adds a text header for the thread section at
     the end of motion.conf (Kenneth Lavrsen).
   * Changed the default values for a few options: quiet on, webcam_maxrate 1,
     threshold_tune off, webcam_quality 50 (Kenneth Lavrsen).
   * Changed some cosmetics in the way motion.conf is written (space after #)
     (Kenneth Lavrsen).
   * Updated the motion-dist.conf to use default values unless there is a reason
     not to (Kenneth Lavrsen).
   * Fix the compile issue with official ffmpeg packages from debian (Angel
     Carpintero).
   * More Netcam Stability Fixes (snap12-post1) (Christopher Price)
      * Newrote url parser, better syntax checking and error handling of urls.
      * Userpass now allowed in url (http://user:[e-mail]/).
       Netcam_userpass has precedence, it will override a userpass embedded in
       the url.
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/NetcamStabilityPatch

snap14
   * Added basic authentication to the http control interface introducing new
     config option control_authentication. (Angel Carpintero)
   * Fixed memory leak when restarting Motion from http control (Angel
     Carpintero).
   * Small improvement in configure script for Debian (Angel Carpintero)
   * Added the ability to clear an option to off (bool), 0 (int) or undefined
     (string) by submitting blank entry field in the http control interface.
     (Angel Carpintero).

snap15
   * Added new feature which shows the fixed mask (in addition to the smart mask)
     in bright red on the Motion type images (Joerg Weber).
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/FixedMaskFileOnMotionImagesPatch
   * Added new feature. When you specify a mask file in the config file and start
     Motion, and the mask file does not exist, Motion will create a new clear
     (white) mask file for you in the right size. Then it is easy to simply
     open the file in your favorite paint program and add the masking in black
     (Joerg Weber).
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/FixedMaskFileOnMotionImagesPatch
   * Fixed a bug in the low_cpu feature where cpu load increased instead of
     decreasing because the framerate calculations were completely wrong. This was
     an old bug introduced in 3.0.1 (Kenneth Lavrsen).
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x04x24x205933
   * Improved the auto-brightness algoritm. When auto-brightness is enabled
     the brightness option becomes a target value for the brightness level.
     This should also close a bug report (Kenneth Lavrsen).
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x02x26x195358
   * http interface small fixes (motion-3.2.1_snap14-small-fixes 1.1) incl
     Add 'back' link to response_client errors (Angel Carpintero).
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionHttpControl
   * Started adding tuner_number as option. This is not fully implemented. First
     code is added and rest will be done in next snap. (Kenneth Lavrsen)

snap16
   * Made the http control interface more RFC compliant (Angel Carpintero).
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x05x02x180550
   * Made the http control HTML responses nicer to look at as sources and
     therefore easier to debug errors (Kenneth Lavrsen).
   * Code style cleanup of webhttpd.c (Kenneth Lavrsen).
   * Fixed compatibility problem with Palantir. Fixed by making output more
     compatible with RFC (\r\n). Original fixes by Roberto Spadim and Angel
     Carpintero. However this fix made Firefox flicker even more than it normally
     does. Final fix which works in both Palantir client, Firefox and Cambozola
     was made by Kenneth Lavrsen. This closes the following bugs:
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x05x02x205307,
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x05x07x042849

snap17
   * Fixed small bug when pre_capture buffer is resized during operation.
     (Joerg Weber).
   * In httpd control code: Fixed RAW syntax following API specs. (Angel
     Carpintero).
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionHttpControl
   * Added new conversion specifiers: %D (diffs), (noise) %K (motion center x),
     %L (motion center y), %i (locate width x) and %J (locate width y). These
     changes also required a refactoring of the alg_locate code. This change
     is part of the implementation of a generic tracking feature and it enables
     implementing external programs that can perform sinple prediction features.
     (Kenneth Lavrsen)
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/ExtendReplaceConversionSpecifiersDiscussion
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/GenericTrackingPatch
   * Fixed a bug in switchfilter which caused motion detection to not work
     when the feature was enabled (Kenneth Lavrsen).

Release
   * Change the working directory to / in daemon mode. This way you don't have
     to kill motion to umount the partition from where you start it. (Christophe
     Grenier)
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/ChdirNetCamWgetPatch
   * In netcam-wget header_get() didn't always in add a \0 string terminator.
     This was fixed by Christophe Grenier
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/ChdirNetCamWgetPatch
   * Fix for Unknown content type with lumenera cameras (Kenneth Lavrsen)
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x05x06x174416
   * MotionHttpControl Patch motion-3.2.1_snap18-pre1 v,1.0 19 May 2005.
     Fixed some HTTP response codes and added header copyrights. (Angel Carpintero).
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionHttpControl
   * Implemented pthread fix by Christophe Grenier.
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/PthreadFixPatch
   * Fixed problem compiling "ffmpeg reports only YUV420 is supported" when
     ffmpeg is a recent CVS version.     (Angel Carpintero)
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x05x22x213229
   * Man page updated. It is now semi-autogenerated in the Motion TWiki
     (Kenneth Lavrsen)
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionOptionsAlphabeticalManpage
   * Bug fix in netcam code: Sometimes motion try to free an invalid memory area
     (Angel Carpintero)
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x05x21x105335
   * Small configure fix related to --without-v4l (Angel Carpintero)
   * Fixes for http control HTML code (Angel Carpintero)
   * Added init script to RPM (Angel Carpintero)


3.1.19   Detailed changes for 3.1.19 snapshot releases since 3.1.18
snap1
   * Fixed bug which caused Motion 3.1.18 fail to save timelapse mpegs when
     setting ffmpeg_timelapse = 1 (fixed by Michael Reuschling)
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x01x31x211756
   * Fixed several bugs in new netcam code introduced in 3.1.18
     (Angel Carpintero)
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x01x16x030209
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x02x01x071546
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BugReport2005x02x03x035918
   * Added patch that enables Motion to work with vloopback version 0.94
     and kernel 2.6.10+. (patch by William M Brack).
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionAndVloopbackVideoDotCPatch

snap2
   * Following bugfixes all by Angel Carpintero
      * Netcam code: Change printf() to fprintf().
      * Netcam code: Cleanup memory netcam (netcam.c , motion.c ).
      * Netcam code: Redesign of reconnection feature.
      * Configure: Added debug , conditional compile of xmlrpc-c
      * Fix a non allocated pointer to be freed.
      * Added fix to BugReport2005x02x11x170019
      * Added fix to BugReport2005x02x11x150802

snap3
   * Bugfixes by Angel Carpintero
      * fix motion.spec, motion.spec.in
      * typo in configure.in , configure.in.freebsd
      * fix version number


3.1.18   Formal Release - Summary of changes since 3.1.17.
   * Removed the Berkeley mpeg feature
   * New brightness, contrast, hue and saturation options.
   * Makefile with automatic check of dependencies and nicer user output.
   * Improvement of the rotate feature.
   * Added the new smart mask feature.
   * Added a new config option --without-optimizecpu which disables CPU
     specific compiler optimizations.
   * Configure help texts improved.
   * Added the pwc-10.0.5 version of pwc-ioctl.h. Also good for pwc 10.0.6.
   * Changing rotate, height and width via xmlrpc no longer affects the
     running program. This change is done because many internal data structures
     and memory allocations cannot handle change of image dimensions/size.
   * Enabled use of leading spaces when changing text_left and text_right via
     xmlrpc by using quotation marks if the value starts with a leading space.
   * Speed optimizations for dilate and labelling code.
   * Significant speed improvement in the motion detection algoritm.
   * Motion images are now gray scale instead of green. Smartmask is shown
     in red.
   * Implemented FreeBSD auto-detection CPU/ARCH fix.
   * Removed the never finished prediction feature.
   * Implemented a major improvement of noise_tune.
   * Implemented ffmpeg-0.4.9 support.
   * Default for option 'ffmpeg_video_codec' is now mpeg4. mpeg1 is now only
     supported with the old ffmpeg-0.4.8.
   * Option 'output_normal' value set to 'first' makes Motion only save a
     jpeg from the first motion detected picture frame in an event.
   * Implemented Streaming Netcam Without Curl which enables connecting to
     network cameras both with single jpeg frame mode and streaming mjpeg
     mode. This enables much higher framerates with Netcams.
   * Corrected a small error in the usage help text
   * Improved the help and doc texts for config option night_compensate.
   * Improved the signal handling of ctrl-C and kill.
   * Implemented a POSIX compliant SIGCHLD signal handler to avoid floods of
     warnings and script zombies in some RedHat versions.
   * Reporting of the changes of noise detection level is now only displayed
     in the console (daemon off) when the always_changes option is enabled.
   * Made the code in xmlrpc more correct and robust (handling of select()).
   * Fixed several bugs in the timelapse feature.


Detailed changes for all 3.1.18 snapshot releases since 3.1.17
snap1
   * Removed the Berkeley mpeg feature (code commented out)
   * Implemented a bugfixed version of
     http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/BrightnessContrastPatch
     Released as snapshot for developers to merge other patches.
     The snap1 is not recommended for normal use.

snap2
   * Improved the Makefile with automatic check of dependencies and