Installing VLC into my IP Camera

[guyabou]

Hi,
I have an AXIS 214 PTZ IP camera with Unix filesystem. The camera acts as a streaming server and creates a SDP file locally.

I want that the SDP file will be generated in another place on my network and I thought to install somehow the VLC in the camera filesystem and use it as a Relay server (that will create the SDP on the network address).

Does anyone think it's possible? if so, where do I start from?

Thanks, Guy.

[marcuschan]

IP camera = basic computer hardware + webcam hardware + OS (Linux?) + web server + video system

so, if u CAN replace the "video system" coming with your IP camera by "VLC + your system" if u like...

but of course, that will be "at your own risk" ...

[sjensen]

Take a look at the Darwin Streaming Server from Apple. It is Free and free, and can relay streams, etc. Also VLC can grab mjpeg from your axis cam and reencode and pass off to darwin...

[guyabou]

Actually after long diggin' I found that the Axis filesystem cannot be hacked (no telnet communication and even the serial port aint playing a roll here)...
So I'm now trying 2 things:

1. activating my DSS and get the SDP created on the camera - that works great for one camera but when i'm activating the other the stream of the 2nd just not working. - maybe I'm falling here on a port mismatch or something,

It will be great if someone have an idea reagarding this...

2. my other posibbilty is to use a computer in the way (between my server and my camera), and on the computer to install the VLC and to do the relay as you said... i can see the SDP created locally but when I try to send it to the server it's not working:

here's the command I used (windows XP running the VLC and I want to send it to MacOS 10.4.5)

call "c:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -vvv --reset-config --no-audio dshow:// :dshow-vdev="AXIS MJPEG Capture Driver" :dshow-adev="" :dshow-size="" --sout-rtp-dst=" 192.168.2.101" --sout-rtp-ttl="127" --sout-rtp-sdp="rtsp://192.168.2.150/test.sdp" --sout "#transcode:rtp" --sout-transcode-fps=15 --sout-transcode-venc="ffmpeg" --sout-transcode-vcodec="mp4v" --sout-transcode-vb="8000"

thanks all...