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[fubaya]

Anyone working on this?

For what it's worth, you can get the video stream or snapshot from the following URLs. There are two ways to get each, whichever you prefer. I tried to stream from a couple Roku apps but didn't have any luck. Just plug in the cam IP and user/pass.

video:
http://IP/videostream.asf?user=USER&pwd=PASS
or
http://USER:PASS@IP/videostream.asf?

snapshot:
http://USER:PASS@IP/snapshot.cgi?
or
http://IP/snapshot.cgi?user=USER&pwd=PASS

[bollywood]

"fubaya" wrote:
Anyone working on this?

For what it's worth, you can get the video stream or snapshot from the following URLs. There are two ways to get each, whichever you prefer. I tried to stream from a couple Roku apps but didn't have any luck. Just plug in the cam IP and user/pass.

video:
http://IP/videostream.asf?user=USER&pwd=PASS
or
http://USER:PASS@IP/videostream.asf?

snapshot:
http://USER:PASS@IP/snapshot.cgi?
or
http://IP/snapshot.cgi?user=USER&pwd=PASS

i don't think this was a concern.
the concern is finding a camera which outputs live video in a compatible format for roku. another option mentioned was using the jpegs or in other words, just using the pictures that the camera is taking and refreshing them rapidly.

I have not found a camera that supports HLS. if you do know of one, or can find one, please let us all know.

[dfv78]

I got it working but I had to use VLC to restream the video in order to support HLS.
I'm using an Axis M1011-W IP Camera.
I'm using Ubuntu with Apache as web server and the latest (nightly build) version of VLC. As I understand it, this funcionality can only be done with version 1.2 of VLC (which as of this writing is not released yet so you need the nightly builds)

Basically I run VLC from a computer (I may install it on a server later) to get the rtsp stream from the camera and I save it on a web server.
Basically the steps are:
1- VLC - Get the video stream from the camera, prepare the files for http live streaming
2- Save those files on a directory accesible by a Web Server
3- Use the web address of the stream within the Roku application


The steps with a little more detail:

Steps 1 and 2
On my IP Camera I can access the video stream this way:

rtsp://root:password@192.168.1.5:554/axis-media/media.amp

So I run VLC this way:

vlc -I dummy --mms-caching 0 rtsp://root:password@192.168.1.5:554/axis-media/media.amp vlc://quit --sout='#transcode{width=320,height=240,fps=25,vcodec=h264,vb=256,venc=x264{aud,profile=baseline,level=30,keyint=30,ref=1},acodec=mp3,ab=96}:std{access=livehttp{seglen=10,delsegs=true,numsegs=5,index=/var/www/streaming/mystream.m3u8,index-url=http://mywebserver/streaming/mystream-########.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},dst=/var/www/streaming/mystream-########.ts}' 

Where:
/var/www/streaming/ is the directory where I'm saving the stream files
http://mywebserver/streaming/ is web address of the location of the stream
The link http://mywebserver/streaming/mystream.m3u8 will get you access to the HTS stream.

Step 3
To test it I used the program 'customvideoplayer' from the RokuSDK and I only changed the line of the stream url on the main.brs to

http://mywebserver/streaming/mystream.m3u8

And it worked!

I'm still testing it but I'm thinking if I have a lot of people watching my IP camera I will run out of bandwidth very soon.

Does anyone know a way I could upload the video stream to Livestream or UStream using VLC (I have done it before) and then get the video directly from a Roku application? This way Livestream or UStream will handle the bandwidth.

To get it working I used as a reference :
- http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Streaming_for_the_iPhone
- How to stream anything on your hard drive to your roku http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=38551&p=258686#p252994

[gklaas]

>by kc8pql » Sat May 21, 2011 1:03 pm
>Maybe not that silly. It's been asked for a number of times before this. I wouldn't have any use for it, but apparently some do.

I have two IP cameras at my second home. They will serve up a JPG image with URL http://IP/image/jpeg.cgi
I'd like to create a screensaver that displays a fresh picture every minute or so. It'll allow me enjoy my vacation home window view while I'm (so sad) having to work for a living 400 miles away....

I'm currently studying deviantart and roku clock examples to figure out how to do this.....

Gerald

[YungBlood]

Interesting concept. I don't have any IP cams to play with. I'm working on a project VERY closely related to it. Does anyone have (or know of) a publicly available IP cam feed I could play with? With some minor tweaking of one of my current projects, I could have a beta version up in a couple days. I'll see if I can go find some public IP cams...

[YungBlood]

Good News! My initial test is working. I'll add in the ability to enter the addresses & refresh rates, and have something published in a day or 2...

[gonzotek]

"YungBlood" wrote:
Good News! My initial test is working. I'll add in the ability to enter the addresses & refresh rates, and have something published in a day or 2...

Woohoo 🙂

[gklaas]

"YungBlood" wrote:
Good News! My initial test is working. I'll add in the ability to enter the addresses & refresh rates, and have something published in a day or 2...

Hey YungBlood, I'm really looking forward to it.

In the meantime, I have been successful modifying the SDK DeviantArt example code to start a slideshow with JPEG's from my two cameras. This works just fine for a quick check of what's happening at home..... I go into the channel, see what the weather's like, see my car is still in the driveway, no flooding in the yard, etc... but the thing I notice is that the Roku caches the images, so if I watch long enough for the slideshow to cycle it always shows the same picture from the moment I started the channel. I did test that my camera will accept URL's with a QUERY_STRING ( http://IP/image/jpeg.cgi?r=#### ) so now I need to figure out how to increment the value of r within the slideshow so it sees a new URL and gets a new image each cycle.

Gerald

[gonzotek]

Have a look at TheEndless' suggestion here to add a unique string to the url parameters:
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=47078#p320077

[YungBlood]

For viewing a single webcam, try this:

https://owner.roku.com/add/PNVUS

I will be adding a multi-cam app later. 🙂