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Motion

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Description
Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. Or in other words, it can detect motion.

Motion is a command line based tool. It has no graphical user interface. Everything is setup either via the command line or via configuration files.

The output from motion can be:
- jpg files
- ppm format files
- mpeg video sequences

Also, motion has its own minimalistic web server. Thus, you can access the webcam output from motion via a browser.
Home Page: http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome
Interface: Command Line
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Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
stable 3.2.12-2 3.2.12-2
testing 3.2.12-3.2 3.2.12-3.2
sid 3.2.12-3.4 3.2.12-3.4

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
hardy 3.2.9-1 3.2.9-1
lucid 3.2.11-2ubuntu4 3.2.11-2ubuntu4
oneiric 3.2.12-2ubuntu1 3.2.12-2ubuntu1
precise 3.2.12-3.1 3.2.12-3.1
quantal 3.2.12-3.2 3.2.12-3.2

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