[gentoo-user] Webcamviewer (or such) ?

[gentoo-user] Webcamviewer (or such) ?

[Meino.Cramer]

Hi,

For watching different wildlife webcams of the internet for a longer
period of time I am looking for something, which I tend to call
"webcam viewer"...(Warning! Not-native-english-speaker ahead! ;)

Normally one opens up firefox (or any other browser), enter the
URL and get the interface of the webcam displayed...sometimer with
more than one port to watch. The resolution of these streams are
low most of the time...nonetheless I need a completey firefox and
its memory footprint is not that of a child.
Rendering a complex scene with blender in parallel let my PC with
8GB start swapping from time to time.

I am looking for something, which displays one port/one stream of
such an URL in a window sized according to the physical resolution
of the stream, so I can pin it in one corne of my display without
interfering with the rest and without killing my RAM.

Or is this complete idea nonsense ? ;)

What is the recommended application for such a task?

Thank yo very much in advance for any help!

Best regards,
Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcamviewer (or such) ?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 25/04/2016 17:43, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For watching different wildlife webcams of the internet for a longer
> period of time I am looking for something, which I tend to call
> "webcam viewer"...(Warning! Not-native-english-speaker ahead! ;)
> 
> Normally one opens up firefox (or any other browser), enter the
> URL and get the interface of the webcam displayed...sometimer with
> more than one port to watch. The resolution of these streams are
> low most of the time...nonetheless I need a completey firefox and
> its memory footprint is not that of a child.
> Rendering a complex scene with blender in parallel let my PC with
> 8GB start swapping from time to time.
> 
> I am looking for something, which displays one port/one stream of
> such an URL in a window sized according to the physical resolution
> of the stream, so I can pin it in one corne of my display without
> interfering with the rest and without killing my RAM.
> 
> Or is this complete idea nonsense ? ;)
> 
> What is the recommended application for such a task?
> 
> Thank yo very much in advance for any help!
> 
> Best regards,
> Meino
> 
> 
> 

vlc and mplayer can usually be persuaded to play almost anything using
every imaginable URI out there. Very adaptable softwares :-)

Plus the added benefit of not having all that browser resource and
screenspace overhead


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Webcamviewer (or such) ?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-04-25, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/04/2016 17:43, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>
> vlc and mplayer can usually be persuaded to play almost anything using
> every imaginable URI out there. Very adaptable softwares :-)

Yep. If you can't do it with either vlc or mplayer, then it's likely
going to require some actual writing of code to impliment somebody's
halfwitted home-made streaming protocol.

When you get to the web page and get it playing, look at the page
source for hints as to the actual streaming protocol and URL for the
stream.  If you're lucky, somewhere amongs the HTML, there's a URL
that you can hand to vlc or mplayer, and it will "just work".

If that doesn't work, you can use wireshark to try to spot the
streaming connection getting started up when you click "play".

If it's flash, I don't know what you do other than curse at Adobe and
the web page developer...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Webcamviewer (or such) ?

[Mick]

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On Monday 25 Apr 2016 16:24:55 Grant Edwards wrote:
 
> If it's flash, I don't know what you do other than curse at Adobe and
> the web page developer...

Before you curse give rtmpdump a spin, because it may be able to capture the 
stream and save, or pipe to vlc/mpv with rtmpsrv, or rtmpsuck.

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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Webcamviewer (or such) ?

[Meino.Cramer]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> [16-04-25 18:16]:
> On 25/04/2016 17:43, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > For watching different wildlife webcams of the internet for a longer
> > period of time I am looking for something, which I tend to call
> > "webcam viewer"...(Warning! Not-native-english-speaker ahead! ;)
> > 
> > Normally one opens up firefox (or any other browser), enter the
> > URL and get the interface of the webcam displayed...sometimer with
> > more than one port to watch. The resolution of these streams are
> > low most of the time...nonetheless I need a completey firefox and
> > its memory footprint is not that of a child.
> > Rendering a complex scene with blender in parallel let my PC with
> > 8GB start swapping from time to time.
> > 
> > I am looking for something, which displays one port/one stream of
> > such an URL in a window sized according to the physical resolution
> > of the stream, so I can pin it in one corne of my display without
> > interfering with the rest and without killing my RAM.
> > 
> > Or is this complete idea nonsense ? ;)
> > 
> > What is the recommended application for such a task?
> > 
> > Thank yo very much in advance for any help!
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Meino
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> vlc and mplayer can usually be persuaded to play almost anything using
> every imaginable URI out there. Very adaptable softwares :-)
> 
> Plus the added benefit of not having all that browser resource and
> screenspace overhead
> 
> 
> -- 
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
> 
> 

Hi Alan,

I feared that...I had a somehow screwed up idea of something and
due to that it looks like highly complex too me....and the solution
are programs I use to use nearly every day!
Thanks for the slight slap onto the back of my head ;) :))

Best regards,
Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] Webcamviewer (or such) ?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:06:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > I am looking for something, which displays one port/one stream of
> > such an URL in a window sized according to the physical resolution
> > of the stream, so I can pin it in one corne of my display without
> > interfering with the rest and without killing my RAM.

> vlc and mplayer can usually be persuaded to play almost anything using
> every imaginable URI out there. Very adaptable softwares :-)

Indeed. I use cvlc, which displays just the stream in a window without
all the clutter of menu and navigation controls, to display feeds from
security cameras like this. You can also pass it more than one URL and
use the N and P keys to move between the streams.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.

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