I want motion to process a videofile and quit afterwards.

[misanthropos]

I want to run motion as a process to read a file netcam_url file:///tmp/netcam.mp4, let it process its contents and quit after finishing instead of starting anew with the same file.

After probing some different actions it seems there is no mechanism for me to just do that or I did not find the right event to send this:
´´´curl http://localhost:8080/0/action/end´´´

An alternative could be a switch to just 1-pass a file and then quit.

[Mr-Dave]

I know some others wanted quitting the application after reading a file but the use case never made much sense to me. My intended purpose for the processing of files was to tune / work the detection criteria which means to continually loop through the file getting various looks at how the motion was being processed.

The various commands for Motion 4.x are here and have end as quitting the application and quit for stopping the camera and leaving the application running.

I'd note that processing files is very "twitchy". The processing speed for reading the file, the framerate and the implicit detection rate all come into play. It is listed in the enhancement discussion (Processing of movies at x times normal speed.) but has not been worked on.

[misanthropos]

I would be happy if I had an event for quitting the application.
I know sending 'curl http://localhost:8080/0/action/end' at e.g. 'on_movie_start' works.
Only I could not find an event when reaching the end of file.

My usecase:
I have a cam which does motion detection but always adds a minimum of 15secs after motion detection to each video. I gather the videos of one day to one file and want to erase the parts where no actual motion is happening.

[misanthropos]

For those having similar usecases: I have found a project, which can be used to process motion in video files: DVR-scan
It would still be nice to have this option in the motion-project.

[tosiara]

I once patched motion to quit when the file has been processed
You can try my fork of 4.7, the feature is there: https://github.com/tosiara/motion
Also, there is some example available: https://github.com/tosiara/motion/wiki/Processing-of-offline-video-files