Motioneye: Timelapse movie could not be created

[Klausoleum]

Hello

after I was not satisfied with Raspberry 3B+ and Odroid hc1 as a camera server in terms of performance, I switched to a laptop for testing.
hp probook 450 with i7, 8gb ram and 750GB SSD.
Operating system is Ubuntu desktop 18.04.1 installed. I had already tried it with Ubuntu Server before.

The problem:

• I can not record h264.omx videos
  and
• do not create a timelapse video.

https://picload.org/view/dcragawi/_20181008_163821.jpg.html

With the finished images for Raspberry and Odroid, the below mentioned problems never occurred.

I have installed following the instructions from the Wiki:
https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki/Install-On-Ubuntu

motionEye Version 0.39.3
Motion Version 4.0
OS Version Ubuntu 18.04

What did I do wrong?
journalctl -u motioneye returns the following entry:
`ERROR: ffmpeg process failed

The Log-File (test.txt) is only by recording h264.omx movies.
test.txt
`

[Klausoleum]

To try to solve the problem I tested ffmpeg and codecs with the terminal

MotioneyeOS uses the following command on my Odroid hc1 to create a timelapse:
ffmpeg -framerate 3 -f image2pipe -vcodec mjpeg -i - -vcodec h264 -format h264 -b:v 9999999 -qscale:v 0.1 -f avi /data/output/.1539145877.avi

To be able to use the code in the terminal I modified it:
cat *.jpg | sudo ffmpeg -framerate 3 -f image2pipe -vcodec mjpeg -i - -vcodec h264 -format h264 -b:v 9999999 -qscale:v 0.1 -f avi test2.avi

and also tested with other codec
cat *.jpg | sudo ffmpeg -framerate 3 -f image2pipe -vcodec mjpeg -i - -vcodec mpeg4 -b:v 9999999 -qscale:v 0.1 -f avi my_timelapse.avi

Result:
Ffmpeg works in the terminal with the tested codecs and on both Ubuntu installations (Lenovo and HP)

--> Why does ffmpeg work in the terminal, but not in webinterface? <--

By the way, created a small benchmark:
1702 Images, 400 - 500kB per Image, 3fps Timelapse

Odroid HC1 Samsung Exynos5422 Cortex-A15 2Ghz and Cortex-A7 Octa core CPUs, 2GB RAM

301MB, 00:09:40 (hh:mm:ss)
(file size, creation period)

Lenovo P52s i7-8550 1,8GHz, 16GB RAM 64Bit

h264: 709MB 00:02:44
mpeg4: 289MB 00:00:33

HP ProBook 450 G1 i7-4702 2,20GHz, 8GB RAM 64bit

h264: 709MB 00:02:22
mpeg4: 289MB 00:00:39

[Klausoleum]

I updated motion from version 4.0 to 4.1.1
wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/download/release-4.1.1/bionic_motion_4.1.1-1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i bionic_motion_4.1.1-1_amd64.deb

on motioneyeOS ffmpeg version 3.3.5 is installed
on ubuntu runs version 3.4.4

Only from the web interface with all imaginable browsers I can not create timelpase movies.
Via terminal timelapse movies can be created.

What else can I do? Why does timelapse work in terminal but not in webinterface?

[efelon]

I don't know if this may be related. I'm on Raspbian Stretch. And since the update to motioneye 0.39 timelapse creation stopped working. The workaround for me is in the file:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/mediafiles.py

When I change the following two lines everything works again:

'mp4:h264_omx': 'h264',
'mkv:h264_omx': 'h264',

Before it looked like:

'mp4:h264_omx': 'h264_omx',
'mkv:h264_omx': 'h264_omx',

[tobimai]

It is also possible to set the Movie Format to H.264 instead of H.264_omx in the Movies Section of the camera settings

[efelon]

Thank you for this hint @tobimai . It works.
Since I have the "Movies" section disabled for my use, I didn't came across this setting. After changing the Movie Format and setting "Movies" to off, I can create Timelapses again.

[ozett]

thx to thread-starter!

the gui option is limited to create a timelapse over more than one day.
i ended up with doing it with the help of the thread-starter on the cmd-line of the images root dir "/var/lib/motioneye/" like:

 cat ./*/*.jpg | sudo ffmpeg -framerate 10 -f image2pipe -vcodec mjpeg -i - -vcodec h264 -format h264 -b:v 9999999 -qscale:v 0.1 -f avi test6.avi

[PaulCmpbll]

 cat ./*/*.jpg | sudo ffmpeg -framerate 10 -f image2pipe -vcodec mjpeg -i - -vcodec h264 -format h264 -b:v 9999999 -qscale:v 0.1 -f avi test6.avi

Glob (*) does not provide or preserve order.

I use the below to sequentialize the images from multiple folders first.

i=1; for d in $(ls --color=none .); do echo $d; for f in $(ls --color=none ./$d); do echo $f; name="00000${i}"; cp ./$d/$f ./${name:(-5)}.jpg; i=$(( $i + 1)); done; done

[starbasessd]

This is/was >2.5 years old using an ancient version of motion & motioneye.

[ozett]

This is/was >2.5 years old using an ancient version of motion & motioneye.

i installed fresh version today and timelapse-button only creates a sequence for one day, not spanning over multiple days.
or do i miss something?

[starbasessd]

If you installed a fresh version today, how would you have had multiple days snapshots to create the timelapse?
Please open a new issue, with at least the Base OS you are using, which install instructions you are using, which version of motion & motionEye were installed, what path is being used for File Storage, and what File Name is being used for Still Images