streaming webcam

murfMan · 2009-11-30 16:32:47

anyone know of a way to broadcast my webcam over http?
i tried to install the package webcam_server from the AUR but i can't seem to get it to install correctly.

does anyone know of any alternatives?

Last edited by murfMan (2009-11-30 16:36:47)

skottish · 2009-11-30 16:37:57

VLC and FFserver from FFmpeg come to mind.

majiq · 2009-11-30 18:55:16

VLC: http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-h … /ch03.html

Also, depending on what your purpose is, maybe you want to look into something like zoneminder.

murfMan · 2009-12-01 14:32:27

hmm yeah i've been messing around with vlc. i can get it to play my webcam but not stream it. what im trying to do is, create stream and embed it into an html document. anyone ever attempted this?

also when i try to open the camera via the vlc gui everything works fine. but if i type the following in terminal
cvlc v4l:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0"
i get
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'v4l://'. Check the log for details.

Last edited by murfMan (2009-12-01 14:39:12)

murfMan · 2009-12-01 14:45:35

also ... with this command

cvlc v4l:///dev/video0:width=352:height=288:fps=12 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=wmv2,vb=800,scale=1}:duplicate{dst=std{access=http{user=guest,pwd=123456,mime=video/x-ms-wmv},mux=asf,dst=:8080/stream.wmv}}' --no-sout-audio &

i get:
5c10] main access error: no access module matched "v4l"
[0x9c910e8] main input error: open of `v4l:///dev/video0:width=352:height=288:fps=12' failed: no access module matched "v4l"
[0x9c910e8] main input error: Your input can't be opened
[0x9c910e8] main input error: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'v4l:///dev/video0:width=352:height=288:fps=12'. Check the log for details.

Last edited by murfMan (2009-12-01 14:46:55)

mvdvarrier · 2009-12-01 14:47:30

murfMan wrote:

hmm yeah i've been messing around with vlc. i can get it to play my webcam but not stream it. what im trying to do is, create stream and embed it into an html document. anyone ever attempted this?
also when i try to open the camera via the vlc gui everything works fine. but if i type the following in terminal
cvlc v4l:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0"
i get
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'v4l://'. Check the log for details.

Hai!
Please use
cvlc v4l2:// :v4l2-vdev="/dev/video0"
instead
mvdvarrier

murfMan · 2009-12-01 14:51:11

ok ... that got my webcam to display on screen. now i just need to get it to stream.

also does anyone know how to embed the stream in an html file?

with the command

 cvlc v4l2:// :v4l2-vdev="/dev/video0" --sout '#transcode{vcodec=wmv2,vb=800,scale=1}:duplicate{dst=std{access=http{mime=video/x-ms-wmv},mux=asf,dst=:8080/stream.wmv}}' --no-sout-audio &

i am able to connect on a remote machine to http://hostip:8080/stream.wmv
the wmv plugin shows up but it won't play anything.

Last edited by murfMan (2009-12-01 15:23:39)

vibha · 2011-09-29 13:10:11

Hi murfMan,

Did you get success in embed the stream in an html file?
Even i m also fetching same problems, i've vlc version 1.1.4
Please reply

ewaller · 2011-09-29 15:03:03

Moderator comnent:
vibha,

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streaming webcam

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