[MPlayer-users] mjpg streaming playback from an ip camera

[Srinivas Burugupalli]

Hi,

The following link which points to streaming mjpg video works fine in a 
browser and the video is displayed in a brower:

http://80.120.122.18/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=320x240&dummy=garb

I tried to play that link by entering that link into the mplayer commandline 
like this:

gmplayer -vc ffmjpeg 
http://80.120.122.18/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=320x240&dummy=garb

The above command gives:
[root at localhost root]# fg
mplayer -vc ffmjpeg 
http://80.120.122.18/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=320x240
Playing http://80.120.122.18/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=320x240.
Connecting to server 80.120.122.18[80.120.122.18]:80 ...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Connected to server: 80.120.122.18
Cache fill: 17.50% (57344 bytes)

and it just hangs there.

I also tried wget like this:
[root at localhost root]# wget 
http://80.120.122.18/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolut
ion=320x240 -O- | gmplayer -cache 8192 -
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 9)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

--20:50:03--  
http://80.120.122.18/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=320x240
           => `-'
Connecting to 80.120.122.18:80...

vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local 
display)
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... New_Face failed. Maybe the font path 
is
wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Playing /root/-.
File not found: '/root/-'
Failed to open /root/-
200 OK
Length: unspecified [multipart/x-mixed-replace]

    [<=>                                  ] 0             --.--K/s

Can somebody tell me how to stream the motion jpeg video over http using 
mplayer?

Thanks in advance for any help.
i am lost. Am i missing somehting basic and conceptual?
Thank you.




>From: Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com>,"MPlayer usage questions,  
>feature requests, bug reports" <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
>To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests,  bug reports" 
><mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
>Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] mjpg streaming playback from an ip camera
>Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:22:13 +0200
>
>Hi,
>
>On 6/4/05, RC <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:39:23 -0400
> > "Srinivas Burugupalli" <srini208 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I saved a segement of the stream and it looks like
> > > this http://134.74.16.64/wwwa/web/hardware/video.mjpg
> >
> > How exactly did you "save" that?  It's no surprise it won't play, since
> > it starts with HTTP headers, not video...
>
>LOL.
>Yeah, use wget or have a look at this:
>http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/streaming.html#streaming-save
>
>Guillaume
>--
>Should I have invented the tape recorder too,
>people would have more quotes of me to put
>at the bottom of their e-mails
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