Re: [Motion-user] Trendnet/Sparklan cameras

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On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Laurent Chouinard <la...@se...> wrote:

>  Herbert,
>
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> b.extern wrote:
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>  Originally I was using the url http://1.2.3.4/goform/video2 as it seemed
> to be the m-jpeg stream or something like that.
>
>
>  It's single-jpeg as far as I know from the sdk (I can provide you this outside
> of the list if you like)
>
>  It should be very interesting to get motion to capture from video3 which
> should be server-push mjpeg-stream.
>
>
>
> Video3 is not available on my camera. I have the TV-IP201P. From the wiki,
> it seems video3 was added to some IP3xx series camera.
>
>
>  It's a little better now. When someone walks in front of the camera, I
> get 1 frame per second, sometimes two. I can't understand why the
> Trendnet's own software (either IPView or the Java/ActiveX plugins) can
> reach a good 20-25fps without difficulties and motion can't.
>
>
>  By using video2 and the promoted patch (see motion-wiki) I was able to use
> video2 but not video3 which should really be optimum.
>
>
>
> What is this patch? I would like to review what it does, maybe it could
> help my case?
>
>
>  I used wireshark to sniff IPView and the activex program connects tohttp://1.2.3.4/goform/video2 which is what I used initially.
>
>
>  Are you sure? - because the ocx I am using here in windows connects to video3
> - and this is also the adress where I receive best results by connecting to
> this cam in usage of the AXIS-activeX-control.
>
>
>
> Yes, I am. Like I said above, I have the 200 series camera, and you have
> the 300. You probably have a newer firmware or something.
>
>
>  I think one of the biggest problems is the non-standardization of m-jpeg. If
> motion would be able to recognize that m-jpeg-stream everything would be ok.
>
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> Do you know where is that m-jpeg on the 200 series camera? /video2 seems to
> get static images, just like every other mean. But the IPView software uses
> video2, so it's mjpeg?
>
>
Hi Laurent,

Perhaps we could clear that up if you uploaded some of your camera data,
like 2-3 seconds of video, along with how it was obtained here ?

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/NetcamMjpegStreamDumps

Kind regards,
-- 
Aurélien Guillaume
-- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity