How can I get an image from a network stream?

asked 2016-09-12 08:22:14 -0600

j0h
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updated 2016-09-13 11:58:02 -0600

I have a streaming web-camera in my office, it is a proprietary consumer electronics product, I did not build it, and I have a somewhat limited access to programing its underlying hardware.

The stream is at (http://someIP/videostream.cgi?user=z&...)

UPDATE: The camera is a FOSSCAM F18910W

and is formated as a series of jpegs. is there any way I can have OpenCV read a network stream? how would I set that up?

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Videocapture is able to read the stream if it receives the proper string. What is the camera manufacturer/model? My suggestion is to visit this page, search for your camera model, and see if you can find that proper url. As your camera seems to be publicly accessible, I can take a look (if you give the model, of course)

LorenaGdL ( 2016-09-12 08:57:42 -0600 )edit

the listing to the camera, I changed, its a limited user any how.

j0h ( 2016-09-13 12:03:47 -0600 )edit

@j0h please be informed that the public URL is still active the update history of the question (/cc @StevenPuttemans )

pklab ( 2016-09-13 13:08:09 -0600 )edit

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int main(int, char**) { Mat frame; string url ="YOUR_URL"; // e.g. "http://someIP/videostream.cgi?user=xyz&pwd=some_pwd" VideoCapture cap(url); if (cap.isOpened()==false) {cout << "ERRROR!";return 1;} while(1) { cap >> frame; if(frame.empty()) {cout << "ERRROR!";return 1;} imshow ("Live",frame); if waykey(5)>0 break; } return 0; }

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