Video in a small window -
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Sun Sep 26 11:52:56 UTC 2010
On 26/09/10 07:36, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>> On 26/09/10 05:39, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>>> Why don't you just use mplayer? Something like
>>>
>>> mplayer -vf scale=64:48 -ontop yourvideostream
>>>
>>> or similar.
>> Neither mplayer or totem will display the mjpeg video stream? It
>> was suggested that a codec could be obtained from
>> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/. I found an rpm
>> there, installed it but to no avail.
>>
>> I probably should investigate mplayer further ...
> Post exactly the command line with which you invoked mplayer, and the
> output messages it generated, there is usually a lot of good info what
> went wrong. Both VLC and mplayer use ffmpeg (while Totem uses
> gstreamer instead), so codecs should not be a problem if VLC plays
> properly. My guess is that mplayer just needs to be invoked properly,
> GUIs usually suck at translating to correct cli options...
>
> And my advice is to forget Totem. VLC and mplayer are more than
> enough, along with Xine. Totem is there only because it isn't patent
> encumbered.
>
> :-)
> Marko
Ok, I found an error in the command I typed, mjpg typed mjpeg!
[bobg at box9 ~]$ mplayer http://192.168.1.51/mjpg/video.mjpg -user
admin -passwd 1234
Mplayer thrashed around for a while, I assume doing its password
verification routine. Once it settled and brought up the image it was ok
although the command window produces a continuous stream as below:
Cache not filling!8% 3% 0.0% 0 0 0%
Cache not filling!
Cache not filling!8% 3% 0.0% 0 0 0%
Cache not filling!8% 3% 0.0% 0 0 0%
Cache not filling!8% 3% 0.0% 0 0 0%
Cache not filling!8% 3% 0.0% 0 0 0%
I will experiment with it further.
Thanks.
Bob
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