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opencvurlvideo-streamingip-camera
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Reputation: 3233

URL Video Stream of IP Camera

I have a Teledyne Dalsa Genie Nano XL camera : connecting it to the PC it gets assigned the following IP Address: 192.168.0.20

How do I find or setup the URL Video Stream for the camera in order to access its video stream through standard opencv instruction cap=cv2.VideoCapture('url')?

Any help will be highly appreciated

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2221

Answers (1)

user5133845
user5133845

Reputation:

I assume you are trying to stream from an IP camera via rtsp. So, you can achieve it by this line of code:

Python version: 

cap = cv2.VideoCapture('rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/stream1 latency=0')

C++ version: 

cv::VideoCapture cap("rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/stream1 latency=0");

Here, the first admin indicates the username used to connect to your ip camera, and the second corresponds to password. By default, rtsp connection uses 554 port, but you may refer to your camera document to double-check it.

The string :554/stream1 varies depending on your camera brand. So you should check your manual for rtsp connection string.

The parameter latency=0 means you want to stream from camera without any delay. By default, rtsp connection creates a latency for buffer (something like 2-5 seconds), and this leads to some delay from actual content.

Upvotes: 1

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