Video streaming plugin for wireless IP cameras

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Hi!

I just read the thread back and earlier on you said:



How do you select that **mpeg** stream? Is there a direct link to that?
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This particular model unfortunately does not support MPEG. Another model I was considering does. I didn’t think MJPEG would be an issue.

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There’s maybe one solution to get an image in Plex, but it’s far from perfect. It involves building something with Flash. A tiny Flash application that grabs the output of snapshot.cgi (http://192.168.0.43:6060/snapshot.cgi) and refreshes it every second. Then put the this Flash app in an HTML page and put both files on a server somewhere (preferably within your own home network). Write a Site Config for this Flash app, place it in ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Site Configurations and create a .strm file with the plex:// webkit url.

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I have some Sitecom WL-404 IP cameras with URL similar to this http://xxxx.yyyy.zzzz:8080/img/video.mjpeg



What should I do to add those streams to my Plex? As far as I understood I have to create a file with a certain name and extension that contains the URL. Could you give more details, like file location, file name, exact content to be written? Thanks in adavance

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ok, this is the solution for your problem:

  1. make .strm file with this link: http://ipcam-url:port/videostream.asf?user=username&pwd=password
  2. replace camurl, port, username and password with your information
  3. add folder with that file to PMS
  4. thats it :wink:
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How would one go about creating said .strm file? I’ve read a lot of documentation on the Plex Dev site and Google and it’s just not clicking for me.



Edit: Found this link: “http://dev.plexapp.com/tools/strmtool.php” which created the steam file. I took the file and dumped it into my existing Movies folder, it added to Plex but says “Error while opening file.” Is there a log file which I can look at to see what is going on?



My password has a space in it so I tried both the plus sign and %20 but neither worked. Any other ideas?



Edit 1: Went back and re-read the earlier posts and saw that we shouldn’t be using the webkit if we have access to the steam, so I updated the .strm file with jus the URL and tada - it worked.



Cheers

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I have a similar issue. I have a Foscam FI8910w, which can use the same URL as pointed out by brnistra. However when I create the .strm file with my direct URL, I don't get any error messages, but the "Retrieving" progress bar just doesn't progress. If I view plex in a web browser, the stream just spins, but never displays. Any thoughts? If I open the URL I put in the .strm file in a browser, it starts downloading an infinitely long file.
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Hi, I am curious if anyone has gotten this to work. I get cannot get it to work with my y-cam. I get the following error: "Cannot load M3U8:404 not found".

Thanks.

UPDATE: followed photovor and removed the webkit but still does not work and just spins.

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Hi, I am curious if anyone has gotten this to work. I get cannot get it to work with my y-cam. I get the following error: "Cannot load M3U8:404 not found".

Thanks.

UPDATE: followed photovor and removed the webkit but still does not work and just spins.

"Cannot load M3U8:404 not found" is an error seen in Plex/Web. .strm files are only somewhat supported in the desktop clients of Plex (strm support is a leftover from the XBMC code).

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