Saturday, July 19, 2008

IP Camera Streaming and Red5 Flash Server

Very recently, we received a requirement in which we have to forward the IP Camera stream to a client. It's basically a monitoring application. Let say we have 5 IP camera's and a centralized client machine where we have to throw the streams from all 5 IP cameras. I was wondering how we can use Red5 flash server in this scenario.

IP Camera Red5

I have really no idea of IP Camera. I went through Wikipedia to read more about IP Camera.

I also checked the Red5 mailing list and found that something similar to this has already been discussed but nothing is implemented yet. IP Camera produces JPEG's. I am not sure that re-encoding it to flash video will make sense. ffmpeg and other options are there as per discussion. Guys need your suggestion on this implementation. Meanwhile I will explore the possibilities of achieving this solution and will update you.

8 comments:

Hussain said...

I am doing the same thing, I know how to do it too..

marksch said...

What about the multi purpose VideoLAN client, any ways to get the IP cams connected? With the progress of this project these days it is promising to bridge the gap between VLC and Red5 shortly...

Sunil Kumar Gupta said...

Hi hussain,

If you are doing the same thing, can you share little more information about your implementation here. It will sure help to open source community.

Thanks,
Sunil

Sunil Kumar Gupta said...

Hi Marksch,

What you are saying is correct. There is a need to bridge the gap between Red5 and VLC. In these kind of projects, VLC is a good choice. Not much idea about connecting these IP cams. I found many people discussing about IP camera solutions on videoLan forums.

Thanks for your comment.

Regards,
Sunil

paranoio said...

hi
im also looking to implement a system using an ip camera and red5
i dont know if this could give you an idea : http://xoomer.alice.it/uxguerri/zoneminder.html

Sunil Kumar Gupta said...

Hi Paranoio,

Thanks for dropping a link. I will check this out and see if i get something out of it.

Once again thanks for reading and your comment.

abhishek said...

could we use IP webcam with flash/ flex application using Red 5 or FMS ?
abhishekchess1@gmail.com

belgacem said...

Hi all,

I'm ahmed, I'm beginner on Red5, If any one could help me, I will be very pleased.

My email : ahmbelg@yahoo.fr

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