FW: [AG-TECH] VIC with AXIS Communications 2130 PTZ Network Camera?

[Ivan R. Judson]

If I finish the swig/python/common, this might be trivial; scary but cool
:-)

--Ivan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of James Fait
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 7:37 PM
> To: Markus Buchhorn
> Cc: Adam Serediuk; Wei Deng; Vic Cornell; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] VIC with AXIS Communications 2130 PTZ 
> Network Camera?
> 
> I have written a wxPython script that takes the streaming 
> mjpeg  and displays it at 30 fps from a AXIS 2400 video 
> server, which uses the same chipset and embedded linux.  It 
> should be relatively easy to write a similar proxy to 
> multicast this data for VIC.  The format of the data on the 
> net is standard tcp, with http headers, which are relatively 
> easy to strip. The harder part is reformatting it to what VIC 
> is expecting, and then sending it out on the multicast.  I'll 
> leave that as an exercise for someone else.
> 
> Jim Fait
> 
> On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 18:10, Markus Buchhorn wrote:
> > At 14:09 13/02/2004 -0700, Adam Serediuk wrote:
> > >As far as I know they have no multicast support. I've used 
> several of 
> > >the AXIS cameras for other applications, the embedded 
> linux is fairly 
> > >simple and allows next to zero customization.
> > 
> > What is the network stream that comes out of them? The 
> specs suggest motion-jpeg is the codec, but no mention of the 
> transport - is it rtp?
> > 
> > "It shouldn't be hard(tm)" :-) to write a proxy to grab the 
> mjpeg stream (rtp or not) and remulticast it. Issues might be 
> control (getting into the stream without a web browser), and 
> receiver (mjpeg support is a bit thin on the ground so far, 
> but there is some code out there, e.g. rtptv). 
> > 
> > The braver types could try and write a VfL/WDM/whatever 
> driver for it that fakes it as an analogue video source for 
> vic to capture, but that doesn't seem necessary here.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >         Markus
> > 
> > 
> > Markus Buchhorn, ANU Internet Futures Group,       |Ph: +61 
> 2 61258810
> > Markus.Buchhorn at anu.edu.au, mail: Bldg #108 CS&IT  |Fx: +61 
> 2 61259805 
> > Australian National University, Canberra 0200 Aust.|Mob: 0417 281429
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