[mythtv-users] View webcam from Mythtv

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sat Feb 15 16:09:58 UTC 2014


On 2/15/2014 4:43 AM, Robin Gilks wrote:
> Greetings all
>
> I'm sure I used to be able to do this but on 0.27 I've failed:(
>
> I have a webcam on a router that uses mjpeg-streamer to make the stream
> available from a web page with the camera output embedded in it.
>
> Do I
>   * set up an IPTV connection in mythtv-setup,
>   * add something to pick up the url from the "Internet Video" selection
> (no idea what the plugin is called but it accesses YouTube and TED etc),
>   * add a container in the video directory (which is how older versions of
> MythVideo worked)
> or will it just not work?

Generally things like this get handled by Zoneminder, and you view the 
stream through Mythzoneminder.


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