#775372 Wheezy: motion app error: "Unable to find a compatible palette format"

Package:
motion
Source:
motion
Description:
V4L capture program supporting motion detection
Submitter:
Ldten K
Date:
2015-07-12 23:21:11 UTC
Severity:
important
#775372#5
Date:
2015-01-14 20:40:04 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

Not sure if this is a bug but I can't get my webcam to work with the motion app. The webcam is working fine with VLC, I can save the webcam's output to a file without any problems, but the motion app fails with the same webcam with "Unable to find a compatible palette format" error (see [1] in the attached file).

Some people seem to be able to resolve this error by preloading v4l1compat.so, tried that, the error message seems a bit different but the app still doesn't work for me (see [2] in the attached file).

Any ideas? Thanks