Corrupt video display/recording of stream

[tonywhelan]

motion is running here on a dedicated ubuntu 24.04 test machine with a 12-core i5 CPU and 16GB RAM.

My camera1 is a Reolink RLC-810A POE. When I view the camera stream directly via its web interface, all is normal.

I have set motion to record videos when triggered by movement.

When I look at saved video files, most have sporadic corruption. An example screenshot is attached. There are two sorts of corruption shown - one is a swirling patch of colour as at top right, the other is a flat grey patch. The size and location of these patches varies as the video plays. These effects can occur independently or together. I can't imagine what, if any, settings need changing to resolve this.

Before I go poking around in settings can I ask if these symptoms sound familiar to anyone?

[dia-de-muertos]

Not a solution, but as I'm using the same camera, just a question.
Are you sometimes missing the motion-event in the recorded videos?
See #1956

[tonywhelan]

Its hard to say as the video is so corrupted most of the time. The system is recording little short bursts every few minutes for no apparent reason, which makes it tedious looking for "real" events. I will have a look at #1956

[tonywhelan]

Did a reboot of the computer, and am not seeing that corruption any more. Mind you its night-time here (AUS) but in the morning I will check if all is good.

[tonywhelan]

Morning update: since the reboot, motion detection is not working. I think I will do a complete machine rebuild when I have some spare time.

[tonywhelan]

Rebuilt, all working ok now.