Can ffmpeg or vlc be used to stream IP camera video? - windows

If so please provide an example.Just a simple example that doesn't refer manufacturer SDK is enough for me, I just need an example to get started, and I don't hope it to work for all cameras.

Can you play your camera's video in VLC? If so, then yes VLC can stream it.
You know, VLC's streaming documentation is quite good. I recommend reading it.
http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/
Nobody can provide an example for you because you haven't provided any information needed for such an example. There are huge numbers of options for this project, so you are best off just reading the manual.

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Saving and Image from RTSP Stream (VB6)

I am going to start off this question with; Yes. I have to use Visual Basic 6.0 to program this. It's out of my control which programming language is being used, and the one I have been told to use is VB6.
I am trying to create a program that can fetch the data from a RTSP Stream and save a single shot of the video feed to a bmp file. I have been looking on Google, and on Overflow, but I haven't been able to find a solution on how to go about accomplishing this.
One of the things I am worried about is compatibility issues. For example, one of my searches early on led me to EmguCV, but I can't get that working for VB6, and honestly I never really expected to get it working.
So are there any good libraries, or built in features for VB6 that can help me accomplish what I am trying to do? I am kind of just hitting my head against a brick wall here.
Try using Windows Media Control for the heavy lifting (streaming, video decoding, etc).
Just have to figure out how to pause first frame of the stream and capture it.

How to create video form the still image with music and Text on the images

I am looking for the open source or paid tools which help me to create a movie from the still image and music. I also want to put some text on the images.
My main concern is the video quality. I need a high quality video as output.
Can anyone please give me some suggestion.
I also want to know that, can we achieve this with the help of ffmpeg?
I am not interested for GUI tools, I am mainly looking for some API or service which takes input as images,texts,audio and gives output as a video.
OS does not matters. I can go with any os windows or linux.
The quality of the video should High.
Thanks in advance.
Since you don't tell us which OS you're using you make it difficult. This is possible with ffmpeg, the output quality depends on your input quality and the output format/codec you choose. Google has lots of ffmpeg tutorials.
Openshot is a great GUI based video editor for Linux and also available for Windows and Mac. Your task would be trivial to achieve using Openshot.

Mac: stream a video file as webcam to applications (similar to CamTwist)

I am trying to program a feature, similar to that of CamTwist, with which a video file (on hard disk) can be broadcasted to other applications as video input.
However, I am not sure where to begin..googling did not help much either.
a little guidance could be useful. :)
You've got the OSX tag set so I'm guessing you want to do this on a Mac. Take a look at Syphon it has a good shot at being what you're looking for.

Converter from IP based cameras to Flash player

I would like to know the file formats that IP based surveillance cameras produces. I would then need to build or use available codec/ source code to convert to a format Flash player 10 can support. These are formats other than the usual .FLV for my website which is run on JBoss with Flex 3. I would like to support as many file formats as possible.
I do not want to introduce a streaming server (FMS or RED5 Open source) because of various reasons.
Have anyone any idea about this? Any help would be amazing to get because I have not done anything like this before.
Thanks in advance,
Ranjith
There's no reason to expect these to be standard or consistent; they can do anything they want as long as the camera and the base station agree.
You would have to acquire the target surveillance system and read its documentation, or sniff its network traffic and see what it does. If the first brand seems too difficult, move on to another brand.

How do you get DirectShow to play a video from a resource?

I'm extending an application to play one of several videos on a control in a dialog. Starting with the Windowless sample, I've got this working, though the videos have to be separate files from the main executable.
The ideal scenario from a packaging standpoint is for the videos to be included with the executable as resources. I did a bit of googling for this, and there's a fair amount of "somebody should do this", and several pointers to the Async sample, though it's not clear how to get where I want from there.
Does anybody know a simple way to do this? It doesn't seem like this is a corner case, and I'm a bit surprised that this wasn't in the box.
Look for Async Filter Sample in the DirectShow SDK, It has impl something called CMemStream which can stream data (read: media) from memory.
more info on this blog post
Why don't you extract the video from the EXE/DLL and store it in the temp path? Then play the temp file.

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