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silvanmelchior / RPi_Cam_Web_Interface

A web interface for the RPi Cam
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unable to view motion detection and time-lapse videos #388

Open ghost opened 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

I have installed the system today but I cant view motion detection videos I get up No video with supported format and MIME type found

and on time-lapse videos, the same error after the video has said its converted as well after it has converted it locks the camera module up and I have to restart the system before I can use it again

roberttidey commented 6 years ago

On video capture normally that works without issue. 1) Can you view videos when you just start and stop video capture with motion off? 2) The log should show the video stopping and then being converted to an mp4 file by MP4Box. 3) When you can't see a video then look in the media folder to see if there is a corresponding mp4 file and is it a sensible size ( several MBytes. ) 4) If you see a sensible mp4 file but it won't view in the browser then try downloading to PC and just double clicking it. It should just play. If it does then that indicates something wrong with your browser.

On time lapse conversion there is a known problem with latest raspbian OS stretch which seems to have broken the use of gstreamer for this conversion. This is under investigation. Unfortunately it is not something I can fix directly as it is to do with this processing component that the software uses. Fo rthe moment one has to use either an earlier OS or download the lapse images to another platform for conversion.