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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; in other words, it can detect motion. The program is written in C and is made for the Linux operating system. Motion is a command line based tool whose output can be either jpeg, ppm fies or mpeg video sequences.

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There are many good reasons to convert video files you made yourself - or video files forwarded to you which you plan to distribute. Good reasons to change a video file can be: * Playability * Size This howto will to introduce to you some of the basic commands to use the most common Linux command-line program to convert video files from one format to another. [edit]