Internetcameras -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 19/02/10 12:02, Chris wrote:
> On 17 February 2010 12:58, Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>  wrote:
>    
>> I bought a Zonet ZVC7611W "IP Camera" Newegg had on sale with the
>> intention of watching an area I can't see from the window near my desk.
>> They work ok with the Windows software, I can view the video images.
>>
>> I can access it over our wireless LAN with Firefox from this F-12
>> computer and set all the configuration parameters without a problem and
>> in fact did so. But I don't know how to go about viewing the pictures.
>>
>> Video applications such as VLC and Totem don't respond to the IP address
>> assigned via dhcp at the the wireless router, 192.168.1.51. Those
>> programs seem to want a file rather than an URL?
>>      
> Ok, so it's an MJPEG stream that you want. If you put the IP into your
> browser you will probably just get the default page for
> viewing/configuring the camera which is why VLC can play it - i.e.
> you're asking it to play a webpage instead of a video stream. These IP
> camera home pages quite frequently use ActiveX to display the MJPEG
> stream since IE can't render MJPEG directly and it's the quick cop-out
> way of getting it to work for *most* users - obviously not those using
> Linux though.
>
> What you probably need is the CGI manual for the camera such that you
> can access the MJPEG stream directly. I've tried looking on their
> website but it's down at the moment. To give you some examples of the
> kind of thing you're looking for, Axis cameras need a request like
> this:
>
> http://<ipaddress>/mjpg/video.mjpg
>
> ... and Sony cameras need...
>
> http://<ipaddress>/image?speed=25
>
> so you basically need to find the equivalent cgi request for your
> camera. Hopefully it's documented on their website - and hopefully the
> website will work again one day!
>
>    
>
>     HTH, Chris.
>

>     Wow, a good guess! I tried http://192.168.1.51/mjpg/video.mjpg, it
>     asked for the camera id and password and immediadtely displayed a
>     good picture.
>
>     That gets me started anyway. It would help a whole lot if I
>     understood what I am doing, how this is supposed to work. I will
>     keep researching it on Google, whatever.
>
>     Thanks much.
>
>     Bob
>


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