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

[James Fait]

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
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