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

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On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:53:39 -0400
"Srinivas Burugupalli" <srini208 at hotmail.com> wrote:

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

It isn't pretty, but it works:

mkfifo fifo.mjpeg
wget 'http://80.120.122.18/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=320x240' -
Ofifo.mjpeg & 
mplayer -demuxer 35 fifo.mjpeg


lavf seems to be the only demuxer with support for mjpeg, and
it can only detect content by filename extension.

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

No, you've got the right idea.  MPlayer can be very difficult to use at
times...