[gentoo-user] {OT} Webcam packages (motion segfaults)

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

I've got my Philips SPC900NC webcam taking videos with the streamer
command from the xawtv package, but I'd like to use a program to
record videos based on motion detection.  zoneminder looks good but
seems difficult to set up and would be overkill.  motion looks about
right, but segfaults for me like this:

# /etc/init.d/motion start
 * Starting motion detection ...
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion.conf
[0] Unknown config option "ffmpeg_cap_new"
[0] Unknown config option "ffmpeg_cap_motion"
[0] Unknown config option "ffmpeg_timelapse"
[0] Unknown config option "ffmpeg_timelapse_mode"
[0] Unknown config option "ffmpeg_bps"
[0] Unknown config option "ffmpeg_variable_bitrate"
[0] Unknown config option "ffmpeg_video_codec"
[0] Unknown config option "ffmpeg_deinterlace"
[0] Unknown config option "movie_filename"
[0] Unknown config option "timelapse_filename"
[0] Unknown config option "sql_log_image"
[0] Unknown config option "sql_log_snapshot"
[0] Unknown config option "sql_log_mpeg"
[0] Unknown config option "sql_log_timelapse"
[0] Unknown config option "sql_query"
[0] Motion 3.2.10.1 Started
/lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 231: 11597 Segmentation fault
 /sbin/start-stop-daemon '--start' '-c' 'motion' '-g' 'video'
'--quiet' '--exec' '/usr/bin/motion' [ !! ]

Is there any way I can track down the problem?  Is there another
program that can take videos based on motion detection?

- Grant