how to save mjpeg -

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On 02/18/2011 03:42 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> 
>         I have some cameras watching the pasture and I usually view the
>         image via VLC although other app's do work. How can I save a
>         video clip? I see no provision for saving in the VLC or smplayer
>         menus.
> 
>         Am I missing something or is there a reason why this can't be
>         accomplished easily?
> 
>         Bob
> 
>         -- 
> 

Just using wget on the mjpeg URL for the Axis IP-Cameras I have access to here
works fine (you get some junk until the next frame boundary but e.g. mplayer/vlc
have no problem playing the resulting file and a bit of xxd/dd fiddling or a
clever script would be able to fix this easily).

E.g.:


$ wget http://webcam3.mydomain.com/mjpg/video.mjpg

(I got the URL by right-clicking the video element in the HTML page the camera
serves to a browser).

Regards,
Bryn.