View image form IP camera

[ovt001]

Hi everybody,
I need to write a small Apps to view a image from an IP Camera.
I want to write a apps where I need only to enter IP of the camera and port.

I dont have experience with streaming.
It is nog possible to use an Client/Server solution.
The customer has only 1 wifi network and 1 IP camera.

Have somebody already writed an Apps like this?
thank you
O.

 

[Erel]

Do you have any documentation about this camera?

 

[ovt001]

Hi Erel,
the IP camera is an Axis M serie. but normaly it doesn't matter wich camera the customer use? or well?

Thank you
O.

 

[Erel]

The question is which protocol the camera use.

 

[healingdaily]

View image from IP camera

ovt001, assuming the camera is connected to a Windows machine, you could use the small webcam server found at:

WebCam2000 - WebCam2000

The camera images are served over port 8080 using http protocol, and can be refreshed at an interval of your choosing. Your android app can view the images by having WebView load the address of the server at port 8080.

For example:

WebView1.LoadURL("http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080")

will pull the image served by the camera at that moment.

Marc

 

[ovt001]

Dear healingdaily,
No the camera is not connected to a Windows PC.
Tha IP camera is directly connected on a switch and has a fix IP address. The defined port is 80, but can be changed.

@Erel,
Protocol is TCP because I can browse into the IP camera an see the image into a browser. But I want to put the image into a windows on my Android apps.

 

[Erel]

Does it send an image or a live stream?

 

[padvou]

I think they usually stream over rtsp

 

[Erel]

You should then find the rtsp url and try to load it with VideoView.

 

[ciprian]

Any news? I'm looking for the same thing.
Or is there anybody who allready done this?

 

[Erel]

Have you tried this library: A small vidéo MJPEG librarie for ip cam

 

[ciprian]

I successfully tried yesterday , but i'm getting only 1 image for 1,5 seconds. even my refresh timer is set to 250.
I was hoping someone found another way to do it.
Thankyou

 

[elitevenkat]

Hi Erel,
I want to send the video stream captured from the device camera(front/back) to a RTMS/RTSP server. How do i do it in b4a ? Kindly guide me
venkat

 

[Erel]

Please start a new thread for this question.