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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Not much else going on with the system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>top - 22:04:03 up 47 min, 1 user, load average: 0.46, 0.18, 0.10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Tasks: 84 total, 1 running, 83 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>%Cpu(s): 63.2 us, 18.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 17.1 id, 0.3 wa, 0.3 hi, 0.3 si, 0.0 st<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>KiB Mem: 448776 total, 150456 used, 298320 free, 15036 buffers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>KiB Swap: 102396 total, 0 used, 102396 free, 70788 cached<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> 2011 root 20 0 34172 15m 6120 S 29.2 3.6 0:19.55 Xorg <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> 2526 pi 20 0 93488 10m 7936 S 24.0 2.5 0:04.94 lxterminal <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> 2014 pi 20 0 17936 7584 4500 S 21.4 1.7 0:19.22 x11vnc <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> 2085 motion 20 0 52104 9088 1724 S 2.6 2.0 1:17.17 motion <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> 2539 pi 20 0 5116 1336 972 R 1.6 0.3 0:01.07 top <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> 2291 pi 20 0 81988 9000 6628 S 0.6 2.0 0:09.12 lxpanel <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> 11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:01.02 kworker/0:1 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> 2247 pi 20 0 12792 1504 1264 S 0.3 0.3 0:00.25 lxsession <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> 2289 pi 20 0 15260 6216 4520 S 0.3 1.4 0:01.16 openbox <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'> 1 root 20 0 2144 728 620 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.79 init <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>... <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Exiting my VNC session does not impact the BW I see.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>With Chrome trying to connect, the results look similar.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Oh well. I could try a clean install, I guess.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>---> Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> TriEmbed [mailto:triembed-bounces@triembed.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>The MacDougals<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 20, 2013 11:08 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Triangle Embedded Computing Interest Group'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [TriEmbed] Issues with streaming a webcam from my RPi<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I isolated my network to just the RPi and my Computer and still only get 2.8K/s.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> TriEmbed [<a href="mailto:triembed-bounces@triembed.org">mailto:triembed-bounces@triembed.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>The MacDougals<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 20, 2013 10:42 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Triangle Embedded Computing Interest Group'<br><b>Subject:</b> [TriEmbed] Issues with streaming a webcam from my RPi<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I had this working fine</span> <span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>in June, but not so much today.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The setup is mostly like what is outlined here:</span> <a href="http://iiternal.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-cheap-surveillance-camera-using.html"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>http://iiternal.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-cheap-surveillance-camera-using.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Things look fine on the RPi side (the date is wrong):</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion.conf</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] Motion 3.2.12 Started</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] Created process id file /var/run/motion/motion.pid. Process ID is 2088</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] Motion running as daemon process</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3482368 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3478785</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] Thread 1 is from /etc/motion/motion.conf</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Thread 1 started</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo"</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] cap.card: "Microsoft® LifeCam VX-2000"</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] cap.bus_info: "usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3.4"</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] cap.capabilities=0x04000001</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] - STREAMING</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Config palette index 8 (YU12) doesn't work.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Supported palettes:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] 0: YUYV (YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV))</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] 1: MJPG (MJPEG)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Selected palette YUYV</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] motion-httpd/3.2.12 running, accepting connections</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Test palette YUYV (320x240)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Using palette YUYV (320x240) bytesperlines 640 sizeimage 153600 colorspace 00000000</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] found control 0x00980900, "Brightness", range -16,16</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] #011"Brightness", default -8193, current 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] found control 0x00980901, "Contrast", range 1,32</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] #011"Contrast", default 57343, current 16</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] found control 0x00980902, "Saturation", range 0,60</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] #011"Saturation", default 57343, current 18</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] found control 0x00980903, "Hue", range -45,45</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] #011"Hue", default -8193, current 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] found control 0x00980910, "Gamma", range 100,200</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] #011"Gamma", default 61432, current 150</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] mmap information:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] frames=4</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] 0 length=153600</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] 1 length=153600</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] 2 length=153600</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] 3 length=153600</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jan 26 21:15:51 raspberrypi motion: [1] Started stream webcam server in port 8081</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I can use wget on my desktop computer (win7-64) and see the connection and a trickle of data:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>$ wget 192.168.0.3:8081</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>--2013-09-20 22:35:19-- <a href="http://192.168.0.3:8081/">http://192.168.0.3:8081/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Connecting to 192.168.0.3:8081... connected.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Length: unspecified [multipart/x-mixed-replace]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>Saving to: `index.html'</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'> [ <=> ] 130,974 2.95K/s</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Nothing shows up when I try to connect with Chrome.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I am thinking the issue is with the 2.9K/s data transfer rate.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>pi@raspberrypi /var/log $ ifconfig</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:27:eb:3a:de:a1 </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> RX packets:8888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> TX packets:9888 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> RX bytes:504663 (492.8 KiB) TX bytes:7587363 (7.2 MiB)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Any suggestions?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>---> Paul</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>