replacing ffserver?

ros at bebik.net ros at bebik.net
Sat Dec 5 14:26:32 UTC 2020


On 12/4/20 10:46 PM, Robert Huff wrote:
> 	Let me restate the issue.
> 	My goal is to be able to have someone visit (e.g.)
> "https://webcam.example.com:9999" and have the feed from the webcam
> appear in their browser.
> 	What I have at the moment:
>
> 	a) a system running:
>
> FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #0 r365372: Sun Sep  6 10:51:26 EDT 2020 amd64
>
> 	b) a working webcam
> 	c) the latest version of webcamd, which finds the webcam and
> creates video0 and video1.
>
> 	So: I need to make the contents of video0 available on port 9999.
> I have been unable to find a concise current method for how to do
> that.  (Including anything with Apache, which seems like an obvious
> step.)
>
>
> 			Respectfully,
>
>
> 				Robert Huff
>
Hi Robert,

Did you try to use ustreamer[1] ? it's a light,
easy to use, mjpeg streamer. No config required.

The following command will do the jub for what
you want.

# ustreamer -l -s 0.0.0.0 -p 9999

Cheers,
-- rodrigo

[1] https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/ustreamer/



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