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I am trying to get motion to run (as before I freshly installed Mageia 7 on ssd)
I am running Mageia 7 Dual screen
Hardware reports USB camera:

Identification
Vendor: ‎OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Description: ‎USB Camera
Media class: ‎
Connection
Bus: ‎USB
Bus PCI #: ‎3
PCI device #: ‎4
Vendor ID: ‎0x05a9
Device ID: ‎0x8519
Misc
Module: ‎ov519

Running XawTV Identyfies and display objects captured by the ov519 camera

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cat /etc/motion/motion.conf
 Rename this distribution example file to motion.conf
#
# This config file was generated by motion 4.2.2
# Documentation:  /usr/share/doc/motion/motion_guide.html
#
# This file contains only the basic configuration options to get a
# system working.  There are many more options available.  Please
# consult the documentation for the complete list of all options.
#

############################################################
# System control configuration parameters
############################################################

# Start in daemon (background) mode and release terminal.
daemon off

# Start in Setup-Mode, daemon disabled.
setup_mode off

# File to store the process ID.
; pid_file value

# File to write logs messages into.  If not defined stderr and syslog is used.
/home/jacob/motion/motion.log

# Level of log messages [1..9] (EMG, ALR, CRT, ERR, WRN, NTC, INF, DBG, ALL).
log_level 6

# Target directory for pictures, snapshots and movies
/home/jacob/motion/out

# Video device (e.g. /dev/video0) to be used for capturing.
videodevice /dev/video0

# Parameters to control video device.  See motion_guide.html
; vid_control_params value

# The full URL of the network camera stream.
; netcam_url value

# Name of mmal camera (e.g. vc.ril.camera for pi camera).
; mmalcam_name value

# Camera control parameters (see raspivid/raspistill tool documentation)
; mmalcam_control_params value

############################################################
# Image Processing configuration parameters
############################################################

# Image width in pixels.
width 640

# Image height in pixels.
height 480

# Maximum number of frames to be captured per second.
framerate 15

# Text to be overlayed in the lower left corner of images
;  text_left CAMERA1

# Text to be overlayed in the lower right corner of images.
;  text_right %Y-%m-%d\n%T-%q


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motion
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] conf_load: Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0:motion] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "/home/jacob/motion/motion.log"
[0:motion] [ALR] [ALL] conf_cmdparse: Unknown config option "/home/jacob/motion/out"
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Logging to syslog
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Motion 4.2.2 Started
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using default log type (ALL)
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Using log type (ALL) log level (NTC)
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] webu_start_strm: Starting all camera streams on port 8081
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] webu_strm_ntc: Started camera 0 stream on port 8081
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] webu_start_ctrl: Starting webcontrol on port 8080
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] webu_start_ctrl: Started webcontrol on port 8080
[0:motion] [NTC] [ENC] ffmpeg_global_init: ffmpeg libavcodec version 58.35.100 libavformat version 58.20.100
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] translate_init: Language: English
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0 is from /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0 Camera Name: (null) Device: /dev/video0
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] main: Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 4363
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_init: Camera 0 started: motion detection Enabled
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] vid_start: Opening V4L2 device
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_device_open: Using videodevice /dev/video0 and input -1
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_device_capability: - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_device_capability: - READWRITE
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_device_capability: - STREAMING
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_input_select: Name = "ov519"- CAMERA
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_norm_select: Device does not support specifying PAL/NTSC norm
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_pixfmt_select: Configuration palette index 17 (YU12) for 640x480 doesn't work.
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_pixfmt_select: Supported palettes:
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_pixfmt_select: (0) JPEG (JFIF JPEG)
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_pixfmt_set: Testing palette JPEG (640x480)
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_pixfmt_set: Using palette JPEG (640x480)
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_pixfmt_select: Selected palette JPEG
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture buffer to 4 items
[1:ml1] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_set_codec: Could not open codec Invalid argument
[1:ml1] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_open: Failed to allocate codec!
[1:ml1] [ERR] [EVT] event_ffmpeg_newfile: Error opening context for movie output.
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_detected: Motion detected - starting event 1
^C[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] mlp_actions: End of event 1
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] motion_loop: Thread exiting
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] vid_close: Cleaning up V4L2 device
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] v4l2_cleanup: Closing video device /dev/video0
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] main: Threads finished
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] main: Motion terminating


Terminate without capturing

Please advice
JJF

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[1:ml1] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_set_codec: Could not open codec Invalid argument
[1:ml1] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_open: Failed to allocate codec!
[1:ml1] [ERR] [EVT] event_ffmpeg_newfile: Error opening context for movie output.

I'd say try a different codec. What ffmpeg packages do you currently installed, the regular ones or those from tainted repositories?
Please post the output from

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rpm -qa | grep -iE "ffmpeg|avcodec|avformat"|sort

Also check https://motion-project.github.io/motion ... ovie_codec

I changed output from mkv to mpeg4
It is now OK
Tks
JJF