[MPlayer-users] IP camera stream

[Alec Bennett]

Just out of curiosity, what camera is it? I've been considering getting a
Veo and was hesitant b/c of the ActiveX stuff.



On 12/10/06, Jason Rigby <sirjasonr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
> I'm just fiddling with my new IP camera and I'm trying to get it's
> mpeg-4 stream to play on mplayer (or any player for that matter). The
> camera can stream to a supplied ActiveX control but they're kinda yuck
> since they only run on IE on Windows and I mainly use Firefox on
> Linux.
> i've located a file (/cgi-bin/video.vam) which appears to be a video
> stream on the camera's
> built-in webserver called video.vam and I've tried to play this with
> no success. The ActiveX control seems to use this file in streaming
> too and when accessed from a browser, it will download data
> indefinitely.
> A sample video.vam file can be found here:
> http://www.shoreham.com.au/video.vam  and I am hoping someone with
> more mpeg knowledge would be able to tell me whether any part of it
> conforms to mpeg4 standards (the camera says that it streams in MPEG4
> short header mode). When running mplayer -v
> http://10.0.0.6/cgi-bin/video.vam from the shell, I get the
> following from mplayer:
>
> MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 79, Stepping:
> 2)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
> get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/jason/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
> Reading /home/jason/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> '/home/jason/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Using built-in default codecs.conf.
> CommandLine: '-v' 'http://10.0.0.6/cgi-bin/video.vam'
> init_freetype
> get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/jason/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
> font: can't open file: /home/jason/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
> Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
> Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
> Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your
> system startup scripts.
> Using nanosleep() timing
> get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/jason/.mplayer/input.conf'
> Can't open input config file /home/jason/.mplayer/input.conf: No such
> file or directory
> Parsing input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf
> Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 60 binds
> Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
> Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
> Can't init input joystick
> Setting up LIRC support...
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support.
> You will not be able to use your remote control.
> get_path('video.vam.conf') -> '/home/jason/.mplayer/video.vam.conf'
> Playing http://10.0.0.6/cgi-bin/video.vam.
> get_path('sub/') -> '/home/jason/.mplayer/sub/'
> Filename for url is now http://10.0.0.6/cgi-bin/video.vam
> Filename for url is now http://10.0.0.6/cgi-bin/video.vam
> STREAM_HTTP(1), URL: http://10.0.0.6/cgi-bin/video.vam
> Resolving 10.0.0.6 for AF_INET6...
> Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 10.0.0.6
> Connecting to server 10.0.0.6[10.0.0.6]: 80...
> --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- START ---
> protocol:           [HTTP/1.1]
> http minor version: [1]
> uri:                [(null)]
> method:             [(null)]
> status code:        [200]
> reason phrase:      [OK]
> body size:          [0]
> Fields:
> 0 - Content-Type: text/html
> 1 - Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:57:40 GMT
> 2 - Expires: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 00:00:01 GMT
> 3 - Last-Modified: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:57:40 GMT
>   4 - Pragma: no-cache
>   5 - Server: Vivotek Network Camera
> --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- END ---
> Content-Type: [text/html]
> Cache size set to 320 KBytes
> STREAM: [null] http://10.0.0.6/cgi-bin/video.vam
> STREAM: Description: http streaming
> STREAM: Author: Bertrand, Albeau, Reimar Doeffinger, Arpi?
> STREAM: Comment: plain http
> CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0  pre:65536  eof:0
> Cache fill: 17.50% (57344 bytes)
> Checking for YUV4MPEG2
> ASF_check: not ASF guid!
> Checking for NuppelVideo
> Checking for REAL
> Checking for SMJPEG
> Searching demuxer type for filename http://10.0.0.6/cgi-bin/video.vam ext:
> .vam
> Checking for Nullsoft Streaming Video
> Checking for MOV
> Checking for VIVO
> header block 1 size: 101
> Checking for PVA
> Checking for MPEG-TS...
> TRIED UP TO POSITION 67484, FOUND 47, packet_size= 0, SEEMS A TS? 0
> Checking for LMLM4 Stream Format
> Invalid packet in LMLM4 stream: ch=18277 size=1986096408
> LMLM4 Stream Format not found
>
> Also, the IP camera accepts connections on ports 5001, 5002 and 5003
> for a Control channel, Audio channel and Video channel, respectively.
> Can mplayer connect to these ports to play the stream? Is there a
> media client that can?
>
> If anyone knows enough about mpeg4/mplayer and can help me out, that
> would be great!
>
> Cheers,
> Jason
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