diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index f2c1750..509ad57 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ VIDEO_OBJ    = @VIDEO@
 OBJ          = motion.o logger.o conf.o draw.o jpegutils.o vloopback_motion.o $(VIDEO_OBJ) \
 			   netcam.o netcam_ftp.o netcam_jpeg.o netcam_wget.o track.o \
 			   alg.o event.o picture.o rotate.o webhttpd.o \
-			   stream.o md5.o @FFMPEG_OBJ@
+			   stream.o md5.o @FFMPEG_OBJ@ @SDL_OBJ@
 SRC          = $(OBJ:.o=.c)
 DOC          = CHANGELOG COPYING CREDITS INSTALL README motion_guide.html
 EXAMPLES     = *.conf motion.init-Debian motion.init-Fedora motion.init-FreeBSD.sh
diff --git a/conf.c b/conf.c
index 9f647c2..87d5ced 100644
--- a/conf.c
+++ b/conf.c
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ struct config conf_template = {
     ffmpeg_bps:                     DEF_FFMPEG_BPS,
     ffmpeg_vbr:                     DEF_FFMPEG_VBR,
     ffmpeg_video_codec:             DEF_FFMPEG_CODEC,
+#ifdef HAVE_SDL
+    sdl_threadnr:                   0,
+#endif
     ipv6_enabled:                   0,
     stream_port:                    0,
     stream_quality:                 50,
@@ -757,6 +760,19 @@ config_param config_params[] = {
     print_bool
     },
 #endif /* HAVE_FFMPEG */
+#ifdef HAVE_SDL
+     {
+    "sdl_threadnr",
+    "\n############################################################\n"
+    "# SDL Window\n"
+    "############################################################\n\n"
+    "# Number of motion thread to show in SDL Window (default: 0 = disabled)",
+    1,
+    CONF_OFFSET(sdl_threadnr),
+    copy_int,
+    print_int
+    },
+#endif /* HAVE_SDL */
     {
     "use_extpipe",
     "\n############################################################\n"
@@ -2320,11 +2336,10 @@ static void usage()
     printf("-d level\t\tLog level (1-9) (EMR, ALR, CRT, ERR, WRN, NTC, ERR, DBG, ALL). default: 6 / NTC.\n");
     printf("-k type\t\t\tType of log (STR, ENC, NET, DBL, EVT, TRK, VID, ALL). default: ALL.\n");
     printf("-p process_id_file\tFull path and filename of process id file (pid file).\n");
-    printf("-l log file \t\tFull path and filename of log file. ( use -l syslog to log to stderr and syslog )\n");
+    printf("-l log file \t\tFull path and filename of log file.\n");
     printf("-h\t\t\tShow this screen.\n");
     printf("\n");
     printf("Motion is configured using a config file only. If none is supplied,\n");
     printf("it will read motion.conf from current directory, ~/.motion or %s.\n", sysconfdir);
-    printf("e.g run motion debugging video only , no daemon and logging to stderr and syslog :\n\n\t ./motion -n -l syslog -d 9 -k VID\n");
     printf("\n");
 }
diff --git a/conf.h b/conf.h
index 33b776d..afadce6 100644
--- a/conf.h
+++ b/conf.h
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ struct config {
     int ffmpeg_vbr;
     int ffmpeg_deinterlace;
     const char *ffmpeg_video_codec;
+#ifdef HAVE_SDL
+    int sdl_threadnr;
+#endif
     int ipv6_enabled;
     int stream_port;
     int stream_quality;
diff --git a/config.h.in b/config.h.in
index 60b98e3..9e10ae3 100644
--- a/config.h.in
+++ b/config.h.in
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
 /* Define to 1 if you have PostgreSQL support */
 #undef HAVE_PGSQL
 
+/* Define to 1 if you have SDL support */
+#undef HAVE_SDL
+
 /* Define to 1 if you have the <signal.h> header file. */
 #undef HAVE_SIGNAL_H
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index b7c96df..9cab599 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -206,6 +206,45 @@ else
 fi
 
 
+#
+# Check for sdl library
+#
+SDL_SUPPORT="yes"
+AC_ARG_WITH(sdl,
+[  --without-sdl           Compile without sdl support to get stream in SDL window.],
+[],
+[])
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(for sdl)
+if test "x$withval" = "xno"; then
+	AC_MSG_RESULT(skipped)
+    SDL_SUPPORT="no"
+else
+	if test "${FreeBSD}" != ""; then
+		CONFIG_SDL='sdl11-config'
+	else
+		CONFIG_SDL='sdl-config'
+	fi
+	if test -z "`($CONFIG_SDL --version) 2>/dev/null`" ;then
+		AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+		if test "$withval" = "yes"; then
+			echo ""
+			echo "****************************************************"
+			echo "* sdl-config could not be found. Please install it *"
+			echo "* and remove the --with-sdl configure argument.    *"
+			echo "* libSDL can be found at http://www.libsdl.org     *"
+			echo "****************************************************"
+			echo ""
+		fi
+	else
+		AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+		SDL_SUPPORT="yes"
+		TEMP_LIBS="$TEMP_LIBS `${CONFIG_SDL} --libs`"
+		TEMP_CFLAGS="${TEMP_CFLAGS} `${CONFIG_SDL} --cflags`"
+		AC_DEFINE([HAVE_SDL],1,[Define to 1 if you have SDL support])
+		SDL_OBJ="sdl.o"
+		AC_SUBST(SDL_OBJ)
+	fi
+fi
 
 #
 # Check for the special mmx accelerated jpeg library
@@ -1196,6 +1235,12 @@ else
 	fi
 fi
 
+if test "${SDL_SUPPORT}" = "yes"; then
+	echo "SDL support:         Yes"
+else
+	echo "SDL support:         No"
+fi
+
 if test "${FFMPEG_OK}" = "found"; then
     echo "FFmpeg support:      Yes"
 else
diff --git a/event.c b/event.c
index 2eaa8a8..11256eb 100644
--- a/event.c
+++ b/event.c
@@ -233,6 +233,16 @@ static void event_stream_put(struct context *cnt, int type ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
         stream_put(cnt, img);
 }
 
+#ifdef HAVE_SDL
+static void event_sdl_put(struct context *cnt, int type ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
+            unsigned char *img, char *dummy1 ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
+            void *dummy2 ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, struct tm *tm ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
+{
+    sdl_put(img, cnt->imgs.width, cnt->imgs.height);
+}
+#endif
+
+
 #if !defined(WITHOUT_V4L) && !defined(BSD)
 static void event_vid_putpipe(struct context *cnt, int type ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
             unsigned char *img, char *dummy ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, void *devpipe,
@@ -791,6 +801,12 @@ struct event_handlers event_handlers[] = {
     EVENT_IMAGE_SNAPSHOT,
     event_image_snapshot
     },
+#ifdef HAVE_SDL
+    {
+    EVENT_SDL_PUT,
+    event_sdl_put
+    },
+#endif
 #if !defined(WITHOUT_V4L) && !defined(BSD)
     {
     EVENT_IMAGE,
diff --git a/event.h b/event.h
index 2f7ccb3..d226566 100644
--- a/event.h
+++ b/event.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #define EVENT_AREA_DETECTED     17
 #define EVENT_CAMERA_LOST       18
 #define EVENT_FFMPEG_PUT        19
+#define EVENT_SDL_PUT           20
 
 
 typedef void(* event_handler)(struct context *, int, unsigned char *, char *, void *, struct tm *);
diff --git a/motion-dist.conf.in b/motion-dist.conf.in
index 3b3e4b0..4803577 100644
--- a/motion-dist.conf.in
+++ b/motion-dist.conf.in
@@ -308,6 +308,12 @@ ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4
 # (default: off)
 ffmpeg_deinterlace off
 
+############################################################
+# SDL Window
+############################################################
+
+# Number of motion thread to show in SDL Window (default: 0 = disabled)
+0
 
 ############################################################
 # External pipe to video encoder
diff --git a/motion.c b/motion.c
index 1064d56..2e8391d 100644
--- a/motion.c
+++ b/motion.c
@@ -2064,6 +2064,10 @@ static void *motion_loop(void *arg)
         if (cnt->conf.setup_mode) {
             event(cnt, EVENT_IMAGE, cnt->imgs.out, NULL, &cnt->pipe, cnt->currenttime_tm);
             event(cnt, EVENT_STREAM, cnt->imgs.out, NULL, NULL, cnt->currenttime_tm);
+#ifdef HAVE_SDL
+            if (cnt_list[0]->conf.sdl_threadnr == cnt->threadnr)
+                event(cnt, EVENT_SDL_PUT, cnt->imgs.out, NULL, NULL, cnt->currenttime_tm);
+#endif
         } else {
             event(cnt, EVENT_IMAGE, cnt->current_image->image, NULL, 
                   &cnt->pipe, &cnt->current_image->timestamp_tm);
@@ -2071,6 +2075,11 @@ static void *motion_loop(void *arg)
             if (!cnt->conf.stream_motion || cnt->shots == 1)
                 event(cnt, EVENT_STREAM, cnt->current_image->image, NULL, NULL, 
                       &cnt->current_image->timestamp_tm);
+#ifdef HAVE_SDL
+            if (cnt_list[0]->conf.sdl_threadnr == cnt->threadnr)
+                event(cnt, EVENT_SDL_PUT, cnt->current_image->image, NULL, NULL,
+                      &cnt->current_image->timestamp_tm);
+#endif
         }
 
         event(cnt, EVENT_IMAGEM, cnt->imgs.out, NULL, &cnt->mpipe, cnt->currenttime_tm);
@@ -2435,8 +2444,12 @@ static void motion_startup(int daemonize, int argc, char *argv[])
     }
 
     set_log_level(cnt_list[0]->log_level);   
-   
-    MOTION_LOG(NTC, TYPE_ALL, NO_ERRNO, "%s: Motion "VERSION" Started");
+
+#ifdef HAVE_SDL
+     MOTION_LOG(NTC, TYPE_ALL, NO_ERRNO, "%s: Motion "VERSION" Started with SDL support");
+#else
+     MOTION_LOG(NTC, TYPE_ALL, NO_ERRNO, "%s: Motion "VERSION" Started");
+#endif
 
     if ((cnt_list[0]->conf.log_file) && (strncmp(cnt_list[0]->conf.log_file, "syslog", 6))) {
         set_log_mode(LOGMODE_FILE);
@@ -2696,6 +2709,12 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
             start_motion_thread(cnt_list[i], &thread_attr);
         }
 
+#ifdef HAVE_SDL
+        if (cnt_list[0]->conf.sdl_threadnr > 0)
+            sdl_start(cnt_list[cnt_list[1] != NULL ? cnt_list[0]->conf.sdl_threadnr : 0]->conf.width,
+                      cnt_list[cnt_list[1] != NULL ? cnt_list[0]->conf.sdl_threadnr : 0]->conf.height);
+#endif
+
         /* 
          * Create a thread for the control interface if requested. Create it
          * detached and with 'motion_web_control' as the thread function.
@@ -2776,6 +2795,11 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 
     } while (restart); /* loop if we're supposed to restart */
 
+#ifdef HAVE_SDL
+    sdl_stop();
+#endif
+
+
     // Be sure that http control exits fine
     cnt_list[0]->finish = 1;
     SLEEP(1, 0);
diff --git a/motion.h b/motion.h
index 5d9c414..09d4bbc 100644
--- a/motion.h
+++ b/motion.h
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@
 #include "stream.h"
 #include "webhttpd.h"
 
+#ifdef HAVE_SDL
+#include "sdl.h"
+#endif
+
+
 /**
  * ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED:
  *