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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 8, Desktop Programs
#65 Put Screenshots Automatically on the Web
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occurs. The software can send you an email, update a database, save a pic-
ture, record a video clip, play a sound, and more. motion is also flexible in
how it is configured and used.
To get started, first you should install motion using your distribution pack-
age manager, or from the official web site at http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/
view/Motion/DownloadFiles. You also need to download the software depen-
dencies if you want to save images and movies when movement occurs.
Details about these requirements are on the motion web site.
Running motion is simple; just run it from the command line:
foo@bar:~$ motion
motion reads a central configuration file called motion.conf, which is nor-
mally stored in /etc. This easy-to-configure file contains settings for all fea-
tures within motion. The first section that you should concentrate on is
called
Capture Device Options. Here you should set videodevice to the
device in /dev that you are using (this is usually /dev/video0). You should
also adjust the frame rate, as this affects the accuracy of the webcam. The
next important section to complete is
Motion Detection Settings, where
you should set the threshold setting to something that is suitable. This set-
ting specifies how sensitive the motion capture is. To test this, run motion,
move in front of the camera, and see how ...
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