Recording live video stream from IP camera issue

Xavier Ho contact at xavierho.com
Wed Feb 6 09:35:07 EST 2013


On 7 February 2013 00:12, Sam Berry <sambez_14 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is for a university project.
>
> My issue is that i have built an App using pythons Kivy module, and i need
> to be able to stream and record from an IP camera upon request.
>
> I have just used the VLC.exe to stream the video feed. But it is the
> recording i am having problems with.
>
> I'l look into OpenCV, thanks for the help!
>
> Sam
>

I see.  In that case, cv2.VideoCapture(ip_address) should return you a
video object, which you can check for status and use its .read() method to
fetch a frame. :]

Cheers,
Xav
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20130207/180cbfba/attachment.html>


More information about the Python-list mailing list