On 2013-02-14 17:25, Sam Berry wrote:
Hey,

Iv installed OpenCV on my windows machine. I can successfully view the
> camera stream from my laptop so the installation was successful.
> However when i edited the code adding in the address of my IP camera
> like so....

import cv2

cv2.namedWindow("preview")
vc = 
cv2.VideoCapture('http://192.168.1.72:1025/videostream.cgiUSERNAMEANDPASSWORD')

if vc.isOpened(): # try to get the first frame
     rval, frame = vc.read()
else:
     rval = False

while rval:
     cv2.imshow("preview", frame)
     rval, frame = vc.read()
     key = cv2.waitKey(20)
     if key == 27: # exit on ESC
         break

When run, python tries to open the window to display the camera feed
> then closes  before displaying the feed. Anyone have any ideas why? I
read somewhere that there is an issue with this been run on windows?

Any insight would be appreciated! Im all googled out.

I wonder whether you should be waiting for the key and _then_ reading
the next frame.

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