[Ffmpeg-devel] Any pointers on how to connect to an MJPEG stream?

[Robert Harle]

Hi,

I have a camera that outputs an MJPEG stream to my network  (connecting 
to http://camera_ip/mjpegstream).  I want to be able to obtain frames 
from the video using libavformat.  I can do this from a video file using 
av_open_input_file(), but I'm not sure how to convert to a stream.  At 
present I have:

av_open_input_file(&formatctx, filename, NULL, 0, NULL);

I see there is an av_open_input_stream() but I'm unsure as to the 
parameters to pass to it, or even if this is intended to do what I want.

Can anyone offer a suggestion, or a resource to try?

Regards,
Robert.