Right now I am using a web cam and it works perfectly fine with the code below -:
capture = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
Now instead of web cam, I want to use the ip camera(https://192.168.0.60) What would be the easiest way to do it with OpenCV(Python)?
I saw a bunch of posts, but couldn't find a straight answer to this. Can someone help, who already got it running?
Thank you!
Firstly, you must find the exact url for your video stream, and that's best done with a web browser. For example I use IP Webcam app on android (com.pass.webcam) and it's stream will be on:
http://phone-ip-address:port/video
If I visit that url with a web browser, I can see the live stream. Make sure, that what you see is only the video stream, not a html page with the stream. If there is a html page, you can right-click and select Open image in new tab (in Chrome) to get to the stream.
However it looks like OpenCV can only read the video stream if the filename/url has the right suffix. Adding ?type=some.mjpeg worked for me. So the url would be:
http://phone-ip-address:port/video?type=some.mjpeg
Try visiting such an url in the web browser before you go for opencv.
http:// -> rtsp:// or rtmp://. Andddd the protocol is important (or at least it was the last time i checked) even if it is http://Take a look at this example with python, OpenCV, IPCAM and hikvision
import numpy as np
import cv2
cap = cv2.VideoCapture()
cap.open("rtsp://USER:PASS@IP:PORT/Streaming/Channels/2")
while(True):
# Capture frame-by-frame
ret, frame = cap.read()
# Our operations on the frame come here
#gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# Display the resulting frame
cv2.imshow('Salida',frame)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
# When everything done, release the capture
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Here you go,
import numpy as np
import cv2
cap = cv2.VideoCapture('rtsp://<username_of_camera>:<password_of_camera@<ip_address_of_camera')
while(True):
ret, frame = cap.read()
cv2.imshow('Stream IP Camera OpenCV',frame)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
For example:
import numpy as np
import cv2
cap = cv2.VideoCapture('rtsp://admin:[email protected]')
while(True):
ret, frame = cap.read()
cv2.imshow('Stream IP camera opencv',frame)
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
Then save the file as camera.py (.py), go to command prompt or terminal, locate file and type python camera.py or python <file_name>.py enter to run script.
If you want to exit from script windows just press "q" or close cmd.
Hope this helpful.
Here is an example for a Vivotek IP8136W IP Camera. It does not support streaming.
This code continuously grabs still frames, at about 2fps. No observed CPU loading.
import numpy as np
import cv2
# for webcams, request stream only once.
#cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
while(True):
# For single image IP cams, request frame every time.
cap = cv2.VideoCapture("http://root:[email protected]/cgi-bin/viewer/video.jpg")
ret, frame = cap.read()
# Display the resulting frame
if ret:
cv2.imshow('camera',frame)
else:
print("error getting frame.")
if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
# Done. release the capture
cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
