Comments on: Convert Axis webcam stream to Flash (.swf/.flv)

By: Daantje

Daantje — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:00:35 +0000

I had the same problem, got an other version of ffmpeg and it worked. Do not know why.

By: Vasanthi

Vasanthi — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:49:20 +0000

Hi,

On following this , I get the test.swf to be blank and also I am getting the error as Could not find codec parameters (Video: mjpeg) on running the start.sh What could be the issue

By: Hans Blaauw

Hans Blaauw — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:01:25 +0000

Hmm.. I fact it wasn’t the pipes what causes the bad performance, but the MJPEG. I tested some more and find out the MJPEG was becoming slower and slower (1 second took 10 real seconds). By using the RTSP stream it looses some frames, but it’s much faster. It only takes 4% cpu load on a slow machine, instead of 20 to 40 for MJPEG.

By: Hans Blaauw

Hans Blaauw — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:38:59 +0000

Great scripts!
Like mentioned before, I also feed the input directly to ffmpeg instead of piping it with wget/curl. It improves the performance a lot.

stream.sh:

#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]
do
ffmpeg -er 4 -y -r 5 -f mjpeg -i http://192.168.1.165/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=704×576 http://127.0.0.1:8090/feed1.ffm
done

You can also try to grab the RTSP stream (if your cam supports it) by replacing the ffmpeg line with this one:

ffmpeg -er 4 -y -r 5 -f rtsp -i rtsp://192.168.1.165:554/mpeg4/media.amp http://127.0.0.1:8090/feed1.ffm

I think the mjpeg gives a better quality, but the rtsp seems to be a little faster.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:50:14 +0000

I used:
http://blog.ryanparman.com/2008/06/28/installing-ffmpeg-php-fedora-amazon-aws/

on slackware to install ff. This worked 1st time out of the gate on a linksys PVC2300.

One thing to note is this cam has user auth on it so you have to make sure its in the url

ffmpeg -s qvga -er 4 -y -an -f mjpeg -i http://admin:admin@192.168.1.130/img/video.mjpeg http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm

I also used Matija script above. worked 1st time. Thanks!!!!

By: Ivor

Ivor — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:54:33 +0000

Daantje, thanks for this! It also worked on a crappy Marmitek robocam.

By: Daantje

Daantje — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:47:50 +0000

I would like the answer on this too! I’ve looked for it, but couldn’t find it.

By: Sjors

Sjors — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:19:33 +0000

Nice, this solution is running great! We`d like to non commercial stream events with a axis 207 camera.

But it would be nice i`ve we could include audio in this. Has anyone looked into this? Or could tell me a possible solution to get it working.

By: Danelle

Danelle — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:52:13 +0000

Cool. This worked perfectly for me. Thanks for posting this !

By: Matija

Matija — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:33:23 +0000

This is my script: echos are in my slovenian language, in comments you can see it translated :)

while [ 1 ]
do
sleep 4
#start ffserver
ffserver -f /home/matija/start/ffserver.conf &
sleep 2
#ffserver started
echo “zagnan ffserver”
#start stream no.1
nohup /home/matija/start/bernardin.sh > /dev/null &
sleep 2
#stream no.1 started
echo ” zagnan bernardin”
nohup /home/matija/start/novistart.sh >/dev/null &
#stream no2 started
echo ” zagnan pirat”
sleep 1000
#kill ffserver
killall -9 ffserver
#kill stream no.1 (usually it says that its not active,but not allways)
killall -9 ./bernardin.sh
#kill stream no.2 (same as first point)
killall -9 ./novistart.sh
#ok, i`ve killed everything
echo ” ubil sem vseskupaj, hehe”
#delete feeds
rm /tmp/*
echo ” pobrisal sem feede!”
done

and that`s it. In bernardin.sh is just
ffmpeg -s qvga -er 4 -y -an -f mjpeg -i http://xx.xx.xx.xx/mjpg/video.mjpg http://localhost:8090/feed2.ffm

you can see the result in http://www.sailingcircuit.com
bernardin web cam and pirat webcam, now I have to fix the marina webcam(IQEYE711).It wont stream under vlc or ffmpeg and this is making me angry :). If you have any question i will gladly answer it.