I use it on my own system at home and would love to have someone else test but a few dependencies make it tricky. This is based upon Linux. Other similar methods exist using C# and embedding media player on windows platforms.
The method I chose was only because it was the first successful way I found to get video to embed in C#.
I first went the webkit html5 method and thus was born the webkit plugin that is currently provided in the App modules directory. Sadly what I found though is that HTML5 and
live video was not working at least in the webkit package for my Linux wall pc and it was not very clear if it ever would work. I tried many tests to stream video and most failed although I have seen some recent posts of a HTML5 webcam that look promising. It does a perfect job of streaming videos and such. Anyway long story short that was a dead end but I have hope for it in the future or maybe even today.
I ended up finding that mplayer had a cool little option
-wid This when given the handle will render the video directly onto the window handle so all I had to do was create two 500x400 windows for my two cameras in my own plugin for the Keypad App and execute the correct mplayer command in the background to connect to the video streaming server
i will talk about this later and the window handles i created.
This is the running process command running on my system that was crated and started by the mplayer plugin tab.
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/usr/bin/mplayer -wid 31458629 -really-quiet -msglevel all=-1 -vo x11 -vf scale=500:-3 -lavfdopts analyzeduration=0 -demuxer lavf http://k1.tardus:8000/?action=stream.mjpg
Now here is where this method may have taken a bad turn. I was not able on my newly rebuilt xubuntu 12.04 system in the past few months find a package with mplayer that actually had this feature turned on or even in the source code. It is almost like it went POOF!!! It looks like some big changes happened in some of the branches or forks and so at least xubuntu picked a package that was one where the wid option did not exist. Not too big a concern for myself but it rapidly goes beyond the "easy" button category. Anyway I found that the svn version r34540 did have this feature and was able to download and compile and install it to the system.
* svn version of mplayer that I can conform works. Possibly later versions do as well
https://code.google.com/p/mplayer-mirro ... il?r=34540To stream my video I have USB capture dongles 60$ each as I recall that worked on Linux connected to my main MythTV and media server system and on that box I run mjpg_streamer. Its easy to build and run but does require the environment path telling it where its plugins are node the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment set in the same line as the command is run..
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/mjpg_streamer -frames 100 -b -i "input_uvc.so --yuv -d /dev/video1 -r 320x240 -f 5" -o "output_http.so -p 8001"
Anyway it works. Its not perfect and could use more people working on the project. The best I can do for now is provide my own code and let others such as yourself try.
I will post the code for this module in the contributed modules thread tonight.
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Sean M
by Dominic » Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:17 pm 
