#WEBCAMXP MJPEG PRO#

the trick is keeping it running - although if you use something like proc_open or you use the pid to check if the process is still running you can monitor this. Another option if you have ffmpeg on your server - ffmpeg can read an mjpeg input and then output as whatever format you need realtime. Also saves on bandwidth from your camera to users, and allows you to add in overlays onto your video. This allows you to host as many clients as your server can handle rather than as many as your camera can handle. We wrote our own mjpeg re-streamer in php that takes snapshots regularly for those who don't want to stream, and can also be used for faux streaming in ie with some javascript assistance. If there's a second or two delay, we can deal with that, but with the buffering the delay could increase into minutes and that is completely unacceptable.ĭoes anyone have any experience with this kind of problem? What kind of software should we be using to re-stream the MJPEG video? It buffers and then plays the buffer, which is unacceptable for us.

#WEBCAMXP MJPEG PRO#

We then found the pro version actually does stream in flv format, but that doesn't seem to stream truly live. What we didn't realize until our own firewall blocked us was that the Flash object was simply fetching JPEGs constantly and pouring out far too many GET requests. It did what we wanted it to and displayed through a Flash object on the website fine. We thought we had something working with a cheap piece of software called WebcamXP. What we need is a piece of software that will take those MJPEG streams and re-stream them in a format that we can just use a flash player (like jwplayer or flowplayer) to stream live on a website. Clients will be able to connect to the server, but not be able to access the cameras directly due to network restrictions we can't work around.

We then need to show these streams on a website. We're working with Axis brand cameras and media encoders (1 camera, 1 encoder) that are outputting MJPEG format video to our web server.

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