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Mark Jose wrote: > On Tuesday 14 August 2007 13:26, Rob Beard wrote: >> Maybe I haven't set it up right, it certainly fills the hard drive on >> my machine. I'm only using motion to grab a snap shot, add the >> date/time and a bit of text onto the image and then leave the image in >> another location for uploading via FTP. Still it does that really >> well. I've setup a cron job to prune the leftover files every hour so >> I'm not so bothered about it leaving a load of files lying around. In >> fact it might be handy to keep copies of these files in the future (in >> case the presenters in the studio do anything funny). >> >> I'd certainly say Motion is much better than something I tried a >> couple of years back which was some complicated motion capture app >> which had a complicated web interface to set it up (can't remember the >> name of it). >> >> Rob > > How often is it taking the snapshots? What size/format are they? > I guess for studio use, then you may well prefer to have higher quality and > more regular images - but yes, they will fill a drive if you have high > settings! As you are doing - using ftp to transfer to another location - is > what I do with mine as well. > Using the mo > It's taking snapshots every second. The size is currently 640x480 (24-bit JPEG) although I may reduce the image size as the snapshots are anything between 80 and 120k and with the other stuff we have going over our WAN they take more than a second to upload. I've left the PC running doing a test, will be interesting to see if it fills the drive or not. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html