On 17 February 2010 12:58, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I bought a Zonet ZVC7611W "IP Camera" Newegg had on sale with the > intention of watching an area I can't see from the window near my desk. > They work ok with the Windows software, I can view the video images. > > I can access it over our wireless LAN with Firefox from this F-12 > computer and set all the configuration parameters without a problem and > in fact did so. But I don't know how to go about viewing the pictures. > > Video applications such as VLC and Totem don't respond to the IP address > assigned via dhcp at the the wireless router, 192.168.1.51. Those > programs seem to want a file rather than an URL? Ok, so it's an MJPEG stream that you want. If you put the IP into your browser you will probably just get the default page for viewing/configuring the camera which is why VLC can play it - i.e. you're asking it to play a webpage instead of a video stream. These IP camera home pages quite frequently use ActiveX to display the MJPEG stream since IE can't render MJPEG directly and it's the quick cop-out way of getting it to work for *most* users - obviously not those using Linux though. What you probably need is the CGI manual for the camera such that you can access the MJPEG stream directly. I've tried looking on their website but it's down at the moment. To give you some examples of the kind of thing you're looking for, Axis cameras need a request like this: http://<ipaddress>/mjpg/video.mjpg ... and Sony cameras need... http://<ipaddress>/image?speed=25 so you basically need to find the equivalent cgi request for your camera. Hopefully it's documented on their website - and hopefully the website will work again one day! HTH, Chris. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
