sl1200mk2@free.fr wrote:
hi everybody does anyone ever tried to receive a video from a "camera ip" i've got a wonderfull camera who stream video, i can see result in firefox, but i would like to route the result in a gem window. i'm running pd on osx.3 thank you for anykind of answer.
what kind of stream does the camera provide ? is it a "real" video-stream (then it might work with pix_film (but i really don't know)) or is it just a sequence of jpegs (in this case you will have to make an external wrapper that downloads the jpegs every now and then and then use [pix_image])
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hi
camera send a constant flux of image at 10 pict / secondes if i made an external wrapper ( i believe it mean that i have to download every picture from a server), the time it will take to dl is to long for having the same flux that the camera flux.
this camera is great, it diffuse itself (without computer) a flux of image, and it's possible to read the flux via ethernet cable in firefox for example. is it hard for the future to build an object that look the ethernet port for such material?
excuse my poor english thank you all ++ nico
Nicolas Bats // 06 16 11 75 13 // sl1200mk2@free.fr \
nico wrote:
hi
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Just one thing. Which _specific_ camera is this? perhaps an Axis 2100?
camera send a constant flux of image at 10 pict / secondes if i made an external wrapper ( i believe it mean that i have to download every picture from a server), the time it will take to dl is to long for having the same flux that the camera flux.
Well, I've used an Axis 2100 which can upload JPEGs at intervals of one frame per second (or was there a sub-second feature? - don't remember...). It also has a streaming CGI-module which is not usable outside a java applet or an ActiveX plugin. However, the CGI stream has been decoded and played as-fast-as-possible in Keystroke at one point (2 years ago?). I can ask the programmer if he can open-source it (if he's still around at Keyworx). I think it was really at a pre-alpha stage, and then he stopped developing it cause he didn't have the camera himself.
Anyway. If you are running PD on Linux, enable FTP, then upload an image to the machine running the patch - at the fastest possible interval. Then load them with a frame-number. Viola. Should wokr if you don't need real-realtime. Or you could use 'wget' to pull it off the camera as fast as possible. I've got a shell-script around here somewhere that does that.
A PD-object that could simply point to an IP and receive video would be delicious, though. :-)
this camera is great, it diffuse itself (without computer) a flux of image, and it's possible to read the flux via ethernet cable in firefox for example.
Sounds like an Axis, alright.
is it hard for the future to build an object that look the ethernet port for such material?
Well, depends on the format and how you want to use it. You need to know the format and it's destination (gem, pdp, gridflow, framestein,, etc.). It is most likely a web-server with some compressed video data going over the connection to a specific client-plugin in the web-browser. Knowing which camera and which format would help a lot, not to mention which platform you are on. It's not trivial, as far as I know. At minimum you need to know the format and the protocol. After that, it depends on which OS you are using.
excuse my poor english
No worries.
thank you all
Hope this helps. :-)
.thomas