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diff --git a/system/mjpg-streamer/README b/system/mjpg-streamer/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ff64743fac --- /dev/null +++ b/system/mjpg-streamer/README @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +MJPG-streamer is a very lightweight and resource friendly video +streamer. It also comes with uvc_stream, which is a very basic +streamer, and uvc_viewer, a simple gtk viewing application. + +MJPG-streamer takes JPGs from Linux-UVC compatible webcams, +filesystem or other input plugins and streams them as M-JPEG via HTTP +to webbrowsers, VLC and other software. It is the successor of +uvc-streamer, a Linux-UVC streaming application with Pan/Tilt + +Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpg-streamer/ + +Note: + +The included uvc_viewer is a 32bit binary and therefore will not +work on other archs. You may use mplayer to watch the stream +using a similar command to: + +mplayer -fps 30 -demuxer lavf -cache 256 \ +"http://192.168.1.2:8080/?action=stream&ignored.mjpg" + +You may find that mplayer is lighter on resources anyway. Also +the viewer leaves a properties.ini file in the CWD. + +There is an included start.sh script which contains many +examples for using the mjpg_streamer application. (The www directory +mentioned should be replaced by /var/mjpg-www.) + +You can find it and more in /usr/doc/mjpg-streamer-$version |