[Ffmpeg-devel] Any pointers on how to connect to an MJPEG stream?

[Michel Bardiaux]

Robert Harle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a camera that outputs an MJPEG stream to my network  (connecting 
> to http://camera_ip/mjpegstream).  I want to be able to obtain frames 
> from the video using libavformat.  I can do this from a video file using 
> av_open_input_file(), but I'm not sure how to convert to a stream.  At 
> present I have:
> 
> av_open_input_file(&formatctx, filename, NULL, 0, NULL);
> 
> I see there is an av_open_input_stream() but I'm unsure as to the 
> parameters to pass to it, or even if this is intended to do what I want.
> 
> Can anyone offer a suggestion, or a resource to try?

Try ffmpeg -i http://camera_ip/whatever -t 300 x.mpg , what happens?

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