com.bitplan.mjpegstreamer

Java library for handing MJPEG streams - can e.g. display stream from a Webcam as a preview

Documentation

• Wiki
• com.bitplan.mjpegstreamer Project pages
• Javadoc
• Test-Report

Maven dependency

Maven dependency

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.bitplan</groupId>
  <artifactId>com.bitplan.mjpegstreamer</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.7</version>
</dependency>

Current release at repo1.maven.org

How to build

git clone https://github.com/BITPlan/com.bitplan.mjpegstreamer
cd com.bitplan.mjpegstreamer
mvn install

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_JPEG

Screenshot

Usage

java -jar mjpegstreamer.jar --help
Help
MJpegViewer Version: 0.0.6

 github: https://github.com/BITPlan/com.bitplan.mjpegstreamer

  usage: java com.bitplan.mjpegstreamer.MJpegViewer
 -ac (--autoclose)      : auto close
                          close when stream is finished
 -d (--debug)           : debug
                          adds debugging output
 -h (--help)            : help
                          show this usage
 -o (--overlay)         : adds a rectangle overlay
 -r (--rotation) N      : rotation e.g. 0/90/180/270 degrees
 -rto (--readtimeout) N : readtimeout in milliseconds
                          default is 5000 millisecs
 -s (--start)           : auto start
                          start streaming immediately
 -t (--title) VAL       : title
                          title to be used
 -u (--url) VAL         : url
                          url to be used
 -v (--version)         : showVersion
                          show current version if this switch is used

Examples

java -jar mjpegstreamer.jar --url http://iris.not.iac.es/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resolution=640x480 --start --title "NORDIC Telescope on Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos - La Palma"

java -jar mjpegstreamer.jar --url http://87.139.217.70/mjpg/video.mjpg?resolution=640x480 --start --title "Dollnstein/Germany"

see http://www.insecam.org for more publicly accessible test cameras

gphoto2 stream e.g. for Canon EOS Preview

gphoto2 --capture-movie --stdout | java -jar mjpegstreamer.jar -u - --start --title "Canon EOS preview"

see preview script for more details on how to handle the release of the USB port which might be blocked by the PTPCamera process on MacOSX

Installation

git clone https://github.com/BITPlan/com.bitplan.mjpegstreamer
mvn install

to use as a library

mvn clean compile assembly:single

to create a stand alone jar

Version history

• 0.0.1: 2013 Internal Project at BITPlan
• 0.0.3: 2016-08-25 Released as Open Source Project
• 0.0.6: 2018-08-03 version number upgrade
• 0.0.7: 2081-08-22 upgrades to Java 8 and uses com.bitplan.pom