Re: Recording live video stream from IP camera issue

2013-02-18 Thread Sam Berry
Thanks for the advice! I looked into it, seems using windows was an issue, switched to ubuntu and it worked! Just wondering if you have used opencv for recording purposes? Or if you know of any python documentation for opencv2? Information is hard to come by! Thanks again, Sam --

Re: Recording live video stream from IP camera issue

2013-02-17 Thread Sam Berry
Hi Xav, Iv been looking into OpenCV, i can easily stream my laptops webcam using this code. import cv2 cv2.namedWindow(preview) vc = cv2.VideoCapture(0) if vc.isOpened(): # try to get the first frame rval, frame = vc.read() else: rval = False while rval: cv2.imshow(preview,

Re: Recording live video stream from IP camera issue

2013-02-17 Thread Xavier Ho
Hi Sam, Did you compile your OpenCV with gstreamer? That's where I'd look first. Cheers, Xav On 18 February 2013 01:15, Sam Berry sambez...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Hi Xav, Iv been looking into OpenCV, i can easily stream my laptops webcam using this code. import cv2

Recording live video stream from IP camera issue

2013-02-06 Thread Sam Berry
Hey, I have no vast knowledge of python, but i came across this code to capture video from my IP camera import urllib2 import time import logging print Recording video... response = urllib2.urlopen(IP Address) filename = time.strftime(%Y%m%d%H%M%S,time.localtime())+.avi f = open(filename,

Re: Recording live video stream from IP camera issue

2013-02-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Sam Berry wrote: Hey, I have no vast knowledge of python, but i came across this code to capture video from my IP camera import urllib2 import time import logging print Recording video... response = urllib2.urlopen(IP Address) filename =

Fwd: Recording live video stream from IP camera issue

2013-02-06 Thread Xavier Ho
On 6 February 2013 23:12, Sam Berry sambez...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: I have no vast knowledge of python, but i came across this code to capture video from my IP camera This code works, however when i try to playback the .avi file in VLC player... I've been working with several IP cameras

Re: Recording live video stream from IP camera issue

2013-02-06 Thread Sam Berry
Thank you for the quick reply! I found this code just from multiple google searches, but yer it mentioned online video streaming, however my IP camera would be streaming in Mjpeg format (I thought been able to convert between the two formats seemed way to easy!) So i'm guessing its just 20mb

Re: Recording live video stream from IP camera issue

2013-02-06 Thread Sam Berry
Hi, This is for a university project. My issue is that i have built an App using pythons Kivy module, and i need to be able to stream and record from an IP camera upon request. I have just used the VLC.exe to stream the video feed. But it is the recording i am having problems with. I'l look

Re: Recording live video stream from IP camera issue

2013-02-06 Thread Xavier Ho
On 7 February 2013 00:12, Sam Berry sambez...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Hi, This is for a university project. My issue is that i have built an App using pythons Kivy module, and i need to be able to stream and record from an IP camera upon request. I have just used the VLC.exe to stream the