Re: mjpeg playback possible?

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Jim Sheldon wrote:
| Greetings everyone.
|
| My company is working on an embedded device that will, among other
| things, make certain IP cameras available for viewing using firefox.
| Currently we are only supporting MJPEG streams.
|
| We have found that when playing these streams in firefox with this
| limited hardware, performance suffers greatly.  However, when using
| mplayer from the command line like so:
|
| mplayer -demuxer lavf http://<camera ip>/mjpg/video.mjpg
|
| Performance is substantially better.
|
| Does anyone know if it would be possible to open a MJPEG stream with
| mplayerplug-in?  As far as I can tell this is not possible, since the
| stream is essentially just jpeg images, and clearly we don't want to
| associate all jpeg images with mplayerplug-in.
|
| Any help would be greatly appreciated.
|
| Thanks,
| Jim


What you want to do is create a normal webpage and then used an embed tag..

<embed type="application/x-mplayer2" width=500 height=400 autostart=1
src="http://camerip/mjpg/video.mjpg">


This page should give you a helpful example

http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/testing/testvid.html

Kevin
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