How to use a USB web cam via a link to a URL ? ?

ekubec · Post by **ekubec** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:50 pm

Hello,

I have searched, and can't find this.

I want to use zoneminder and a usb camera, but instead of using 'local' and having 'file source' = /dev/video0, I want to link to a URL.

USB camera works in camstream, cheese, ekiga, skype, xawtv, etc.

perhaps this is a really dumb question?

kingofkya · Post by **kingofkya** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:34 pm

you question dosen't make any sense but i will try

URL is for remote ip cam s only

local is for camers directly attached to the pc via usb, capture card etc..

However zm basicly turns any cam attached to it into an ip cam because i gives you a web accessible stream

srix · Post by **srix** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:40 am

Not sure if this is what you want, but I think you can try mjpeg-streamer - it captures video from the webcam and streams it over the network, so you can access that stream using a http://..... kind of URL.

eikichi · Post by **eikichi** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:01 pm

Hi there,

You have to use mjpg_streamer to broadcast the captures of a usb webcam over a tcp port.

But it only works with a UVC driver registered webcam (you can check this when you connect your cam with "dmesg" command line)

Take a look to this :

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimed ... 4273.shtml