[Support]: No video clips are saved | Recordings directory empty | snapshort saved

[sudoping01]

Describe the problem you are having

When Frigate starts, the video feed is visible in the Web UI, indicating that the camera is working correctly. The configuration is set to start recording and take snapshots upon detecting motion. However, no video clips are saved—only snapshots are stored. The directory designated for recordings remains empty. When attempting to download a clip, we can see in the brower download log a filename clip.json.

Steps to reproduce

┌──(sed㉿sed)-[~/frigate]
└─$ ls
config docker-compose.yaml storage

┌──(sed㉿sed)-[~/frigate]
└─$ ls config
config.yaml frigate.db frigate.db-shm frigate.db-wal model_cache

┌──(sed㉿sed)-[~/frigate]
└─$ ls storage
clips exports recordings

┌──(sed㉿sed)-[~/frigate]
└─$ sudo docker-compose up -d
Creating network "frigate_default" with the default driver
Creating frigate ... done

┌──(sed㉿sed)-[/frigate]
└─$ ls storage/clips
cayt_test_camera-1722515939.930471-0rb3co-clean.png caytu_test_camera-1722742334.600784-c9at4e-clean.png
cayt_test_camera-1722515939.930471-0rb3co.jpg caytu_test_camera-1722742334.600784-c9at4e.jpg
cayt_test_camera-1722516008.505488-805eeh-clean.png caytu_test_camera-1722742406.164256-xp8j2l-clean.png
cayt_test_camera-1722516008.505488-805eeh.jpg caytu_test_camera-1722742406.164256-xp8j2l.jpg
┌──(sed㉿sed)-[/frigate]
└─$ ls storage/recordings

┌──(sed㉿sed)-[~/frigate]
└─$

Version

0.13.2-6476F8A

Frigate config file

mqtt:
  enabled: False
  #host: 192.168.1.157
  #user: test_user
  #password: test_password
  #topic_prefix: frigate 
  #client_id: frigate

cameras:
  caytu_test_camera:
    enabled: True
    rtmp:
      enabled: false
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
      - path: /dev/video0
        roles:
        - detect
        - record
      input_args: -f v4l2 -avoid_negative_ts make_zero -fflags +genpts+discardcorrupt -use_wallclock_as_timestamps 1
      output_args:
        detect: -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p
        record: -c:v libx264 -segment_format mp4 -segment_time 60 
    detect:
      enabled: True 
      width: 640
      height: 480

    record:
      sync_recordings: True
      enabled: True
      retain:
        days: 1
        mode: all
      events:
        retain:
          default: 30
          mode: motion

    snapshots:
      enabled: true
      bounding_box: true
      retain:
        default: 31

Relevant log output

2024-08-04 03:16:05.576512237  [INFO] Preparing Frigate...
2024-08-04 03:16:05.590490004  [INFO] Starting Frigate...
2024-08-04 03:16:07.110840754  [2024-08-04 03:16:07] frigate.app                    INFO    : Starting Frigate (0.13.2-6476f8a)
2024-08-04 03:16:07.148027314  [2024-08-04 03:16:07] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : Starting migrations
2024-08-04 03:16:07.153308371  [2024-08-04 03:16:07] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : There is nothing to migrate
2024-08-04 03:16:07.162544126  [2024-08-04 03:16:07] frigate.app                    INFO    : Recording process started: 441
2024-08-04 03:16:07.162776703  [2024-08-04 03:16:07] frigate.app                    INFO    : go2rtc process pid: 89
2024-08-04 03:16:07.184907980  [2024-08-04 03:16:07] detector.cpu                   INFO    : Starting detection process: 450
2024-08-04 03:16:07.192059062  [2024-08-04 03:16:07] frigate.app                    INFO    : Output process started: 452
2024-08-04 03:16:07.192356927  [2024-08-04 03:16:07] frigate.detectors              WARNING : CPU detectors are not recommended and should only be used for testing or for trial purposes.
2024-08-04 03:16:07.212408789  [2024-08-04 03:16:07] frigate.app                    INFO    : Camera processor started for caytu_test_camera: 457
2024-08-04 03:16:07.214550097  [2024-08-04 03:16:07] frigate.app                    INFO    : Capture process started for caytu_test_camera: 459
2024-08-04 03:16:58.720585324  [2024-08-04 03:16:58] frigate.http                   ERROR   : No recordings found for the requested time range
2024-08-04 03:16:58.758823346  [2024-08-04 03:16:58] frigate.http                   ERROR   : No recordings found for the requested time range
2024-08-04 03:18:30.653306657  [2024-08-04 03:18:30] frigate.http                   ERROR   : No recordings found for the requested time range
2024-08-04 03:18:30.712672177  [2024-08-04 03:18:30] frigate.http                   ERROR   : No recordings found for the requested time range
2024-08-04 03:18:45.903453525  [2024-08-04 03:18:45] frigate.http                   ERROR   : No recordings found for the requested time range
2024-08-04 03:18:45.951160662  [2024-08-04 03:18:45] frigate.http                   ERROR   : No recordings found for the requested time range
2024-08-04 03:19:33.898643603  [2024-08-04 03:19:33] frigate.http                   ERROR   : No recordings found for the requested time range
2024-08-04 03:19:33.934413144  [2024-08-04 03:19:33] frigate.http                   ERROR   : No recordings found for the requested time range
2024-08-04 03:19:39.143733177  [2024-08-04 03:19:39] frigate.http                   ERROR   : [concat @ 0x55ca9a9a3a40] No files to concat
2024-08-04 03:19:39.143736069  /dev/stdin: Invalid data found when processing input
2024-08-04 03:19:39.143741462

Operating system

Other Linux

Install method

Docker Compose

Network connection

Wired

Camera make and model

USB CAMERA : HP HD Camera

Any other information that may be helpful

Docker-compose

version: "3.9"
services:
  frigate:
    container_name: frigate
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable
    privileged: true
    devices : 
      - /dev/video0:/dev/video0
      - /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb

    volumes:

      - ./config:/config
      - ./storage:/media/frigate
      - type: tmpfs # Optional: 1GB of memory, reduces SSD/SD Card wear
        target: /tmp/cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 1000000000
    ports:
      - 5000:5000
      - 8554:8554 # RTSP feeds

folder : 

version: "3.9"
services:
  frigate:
    container_name: frigate
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable
    privileged: true
    devices : 
      - /dev/video0:/dev/video0
      - /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb

    volumes:

      - ./config:/config
      - ./storage:/media/frigate
      - type: tmpfs # Optional: 1GB of memory, reduces SSD/SD Card wear
        target: /tmp/cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 1000000000
    ports:
      - 5000:5000
      - 8554:8554 # RTSP feeds

I would greatly appreciate any assistance or suggestions on how to resolve this issue. If you’ve encountered a similar problem or have insights into this issue, please let me know. Thank you in advance for your help!

[NickM-27]

You are missing required args in the record output args

[sudoping01]

More details please. How it should look ?

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[NickM-27]

Most likely you'll just want to use preset-record-mjpeg https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/ffmpeg_presets

[sudoping01]

with preset-record-mjpeg it works.
Thank you very much @NickM-27.