Dear VideoLAN community,
I have an assignment that requires me to make a video stream available to a large amount of people. The source for the video is an IP Camera that is located in our office and looks out over a town square. The problem with this is that the IP Cam can only support so many viewers. I was thinking of capturing the stream and re-broadcasting it using VLC. Unfortunately I haven't had much luck getting it to work.
The camera uses MJPEG format for the video. The link is http://cam_ip:6001/cgi-bin/sf.cgi I can open this link in Firefox directly and it plays the stream just fine. However when I try to open this in VLC I get an error message saying the MRL could not be opened. It tells me to check the log file for further details but I don't know where to find it. I thought it was located in %appdata%/vlc but there is no log file there. It's not in program files/VideoLAN/vlc either
I hope you guys can help me out, or at least point me in the right direction.