[Gambas-user] Video question

[richard terry]

On 11/02/16 01:41, ML wrote:
> On 2016-02-10 08:37, richard terry wrote:
>> On 10/02/16 22:24, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>> Le 10/02/2016 12:22, richard terry a écrit :
>>>> On 10/02/16 21:48, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>>>> gb.media can do that.
>>>> MediaView1.URL = Media.URL("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-cUFt2t0IY")
>>>>
>>>> Hi Benoit,
>>>> This doesn't work ?am I missing something?
>>>> What I wanted to do was to stream an i-p camera from my front office to
>>>> my room with a little media control in the corner of a window.
>>>> thanks
>>>> richard
>>> Are you kidding? 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-cUFt2t0IY' is
>>> "youtube", the website. Not the url of a streamed video!
>> Benoit you should know by now I nothing of these things. So are you
>> saying that if you point the control to a i-p camera if will work?. And
>> also, how come it doesn't play a URL of a video? Just remember I'm
>> ignorant of all  things like this. Not trying to be stupid.
>> richard
> Richard,
>
> Most IP cameras come with a program to watch them. This is usually Windows.
> You can also use a browser, like Firefox, and the camera's URL will ask
> you for your credentials (user/pass). All this you know.
>
> Android apps -for example- ask you for the make/model of the cam, its
> URL and credentials to connect and stream the video.
> The point here is that you should check the URL of the page with the
> streaming video, after you connected successfully.
>
> For example, I do have a cam. I can use
> *http://xxxxxxxxxxxxx/index.html* to authenticate and connect. That's
> the cam main page, allows me to select use IE/FFox/Chrome, etc.
> Once I select Firefox, I get to see the cam video at
> *http://xxxxxxxxxxxxx/monitor2.html*. But even that is a page with some
> decoration and the video in the middle.
> I then right-click the streaming video itself and select '*Copy Image
> Location*'. This gives me the URL to access the video itself.
> In my particular cam's case (credentials changed, of course), it is
> *http://xxxxxxxxxxxxx/videostream.cgi?user=myuser&pwd=mypass*.
> Your cam's URL may (WILL!) change if it is a different make/model, but
> the steps are the same:
> 1- Authenticate and connect with browser and navigate to the video.
> 2- From the video, if possible, get the stream's URL via
> right-click/Copy Image Location in the browser.
> Beware that most (chinese) IP-cams will send your credentials in plain
> text in the URL, as shown in my case above.
>
> It can also happen that the cam does not send user/pass in the URL
> because it uses browser cookies. In such cases, you may need to prepend
> it to the URL in this form:
> *http://myuser:mypass@...3576.../videostream.cgi
> *but, as you can see it also is sent in clear text. I'd recommend using
> a view-only user/pass combination.
>
> Disclaimer:
> I got this but did not test that it works with Gambas. It does work with
> several Android phones and browsers, though.
>
> Regards,
> zxMarce.

thanks for the detailed description, that makes sense now

Regards

Richard

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