Posted by Si Ballenger on 03/28/07 01:34

You probably could use a java applet or a javascript to refresh
the images. Below are examples.

http://www.geocities.com/zoomkat/wc2000apptest.htm
http://www.geocities.com/zoomkat/wc2000pullscript.htm


On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:20:24 -0800, CptDondo
<yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com> wrote:

>(This is a synopsis of a similar post to c.l.php; apologies if you're
>seeing this twice).
>
>I have an airlink101 ipcam. It "streams" jpeg images to a web browser.
>
>Basically, the camera sends a never-ending http page, and continually
>retransmits a jpeg image.
>
>I want to grab that stream and display it as an embedded object, similar
>to the way you see live webcams. I'm not really interested in recording
>it; I just want someone who hits my website to see the action as it happens.
>
>I had initially tried to repeatedly grab the image but it takes about
>1-2 seconds to refresh, and the camera frame rate is 10 fps. Here's the
>description of the process the camera uses (from
><http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/hardware/video/article.aspx?articleid=912407>
>
> ):
>
>MotionJPEG over HTTP uses the Content-Type header
>"multipart/x-mixed-replace" along with a configurable boundary. This
>means that the stream is made up of Multiple Parts (hence multipart) and
>each new frame should replace the previous frame (hence
>x-mixed-replace). This particular camera sends an HTTP Header like this:
>
>Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=--video boundary--
>
>So.. I'm kind of stuck on how to deal with that. I want to take that
>stream and display it an an embedded object in a webpage. The page is
>generated on the fly with php, so I could do some processing on the fly.
>
>Are there any references anywhere for streaming video? All I get with
>Google is offers to host my stream, but I can't find a HOWTO....
>
>--Yan

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