CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python-3.xopencvip-camera
Taimur Islam
Taimur Islam

Reputation: 990

Access IP camera with OpenCV

Can't access the video stream. Can any one please help me to get the video stream. I have searched in google for the solution and post another question in stack overflow but unfortunately nothing can't solve the problem. 

import cv2
cap = cv2.VideoCapture()
cap.open('http://192.168.4.133:80/videostream.cgi?user=admin&pwd=admin')
while(cap.isOpened()):
    ret, frame = cap.read()
    cv2.imshow('frame', frame)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Upvotes: 9

Views: 22587

Answers (6)

Seth Adams
Seth Adams

Reputation: 111

If using python 3, you will probably need to use a bytearray instead of a string. (modifying the current top answer)

with urllib.request.urlopen('http://192.168.100.128:5000/video_feed') as stream:

    bytes = bytearray()

    while True:
        bytes += stream.read(1024)
        a = bytes.find(b'\xff\xd8')
        b = bytes.find(b'\xff\xd9')
        if a != -1 and b != -1:
            jpg = bytes[a:b+2]
            bytes = bytes[b+2:]
            img = cv2.imdecode(np.frombuffer(jpg, dtype=np.uint8), cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)
            cv2.imshow('Video', img)
            if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
                break

cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Upvotes: 2

NumbMonkE
NumbMonkE

Reputation: 105

Use code below to access ipcam directly through opencv. Replace the url in VideoCapture with your particular camera rtsp url. The one given generally works for most cameras I've used.

import cv2

cap = cv2.VideoCapture("rtsp://[username]:[pass]@[ip address]/media/video1")

while True:
    ret, image = cap.read()
    cv2.imshow("Test", image)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Upvotes: 6

K P
K P

Reputation: 874

You can use this code to get live video feeds in browser.

for accessing camera other than your laptop's webcam, you can use RTSP link like this

rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/h264/ch1/main/av_stream"

where

   username:admin
   password:12345
   your camera ip address and port
   ch1 is first camera on that DVR

replace cv2.VideoCamera(0) with this link like this for your camera and it will work

camera.py

import cv2

class VideoCamera(object):
    def __init__(self):
        # Using OpenCV to capture from device 0. If you have trouble capturing
        # from a webcam, comment the line below out and use a video file
        # instead.
        self.video = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
        # If you decide to use video.mp4, you must have this file in the folder
        # as the main.py.
        # self.video = cv2.VideoCapture('video.mp4')

    def __del__(self):
        self.video.release()

    def get_frame(self):
        success, image = self.video.read()
        # We are using Motion JPEG, but OpenCV defaults to capture raw images,
        # so we must encode it into JPEG in order to correctly display the
        # video stream.
        ret, jpeg = cv2.imencode('.jpg', image)
        return jpeg.tobytes()

main.py

from flask import Flask, render_template, Response
from camera import VideoCamera

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def index():
    return render_template('index.html')

def gen(camera):
    while True:
        frame = camera.get_frame()
        yield (b'--frame\r\n'
               b'Content-Type: image/jpeg\r\n\r\n' + frame + b'\r\n\r\n')

@app.route('/video_feed')
def video_feed():
    return Response(gen(VideoCamera()),
                    mimetype='multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=frame')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0', debug=True)

then you can follow this blog to increase your FPS of video stream

Upvotes: 3

Dhaval
Dhaval

Reputation: 21

You can Use RTSP instead of direct video feed.

Every IP Camera have RTSP to Stream Live Video.

So you can use RTSP Link instead of videofeed

Upvotes: 2

Taimur Islam
Taimur Islam

Reputation: 990

Thank You. May be, now urlopen is not under utllib. It is under urllib.request.urlopen.I use this code:

import cv2
from urllib.request import urlopen
import numpy as np

stream = urlopen('http://192.168.4.133:80/video_feed')
bytes = ''
while True:
    bytes += stream.read(1024)
    a = bytes.find(b'\xff\xd8')
    b = bytes.find(b'\xff\xd9')
    if a != -1 and b != -1:
        jpg = bytes[a:b+2]
        bytes = bytes[b+2:]
        img = cv2.imdecode(np.fromstring(jpg, dtype=np.uint8), cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)
        cv2.imshow('Video', img)
        if cv2.waitKey(1) == 27:
            exit(0)

Upvotes: 2

Muhammad Abdullah
Muhammad Abdullah

Reputation: 916

You can use urllib to read frames from video stream.

import cv2
import urllib
import numpy as np

stream = urllib.urlopen('http://192.168.100.128:5000/video_feed')
bytes = ''
while True:
    bytes += stream.read(1024)
    a = bytes.find(b'\xff\xd8')
    b = bytes.find(b'\xff\xd9')
    if a != -1 and b != -1:
        jpg = bytes[a:b+2]
        bytes = bytes[b+2:]
        img = cv2.imdecode(np.fromstring(jpg, dtype=np.uint8), cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)
        cv2.imshow('Video', img)
        if cv2.waitKey(1) == 27:
            exit(0)

Check this out if you want to stream video from webcam of your pc. https://github.com/shehzi-khan/video-streaming

Upvotes: 3

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