[MPlayer-users] IP camera stream

Mon Dec 11 06:29:12 CET 2006

Hey Alec,
It's a Vivotek IP3122 but it seems that quite a few IP cameras use an
activex control to stream and the same one at that - do a search on
google for h263ctrl.cab <- this is the activex control they seem to
use - and you will find several models that I presume would have the
same issue that I'm having with my camera.

Cheers,
Jason

On 11/12/06, Alec Bennett <wrybread at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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