Motion - Open source security camera software (original) (raw)

Motion is a highly configurable program that monitor video signals from many types of cameras and depending upon how they are configured, perform actions when movement is detected. Motion includes the ablity to:

• Create videos or save pictures of the activity
• Passthrough recording from many IP cameras
• View live stream of cameras
• Invoke scripts when activities occur
• Log activity into multiple types of databases
• Fully customizable masks for privacy or motion detection
• Full tls(https) support with authentication for webcontrol and streams Use with many types of devices
• Network cameras via RTSP, RTMP and HTTP
• PI cameras
• V4L2 webcams
• Video capture cards
• Existing movie files