[mythtv-users] Watch we webcam stream?

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Wed Jan 27 22:06:00 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 1/27/2010 10:57, Rajil Saraswat wrote:
>>
>> It is possible view a remote webcam stream in mythtv?  The stream is
>> started remotely using
>>
>> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so cvlc -vvv  v4l:///dev/video2
>> --sout
>> '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128}:standard{access=http,mux=ogg,dst=xx.org:8082}
>>
>
> MythTV can record RTSP streams, while VLC will function as an RTSP server.
>  The two combined will let you set the webcam up as a capture device within
> MythTV.

If you don't want to record, you could also use MythVideo with an
external player command that will launch mplayer with the right
options.

You may also want to look into MythZoneMinder for this sort of thing.

Eric


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