mikedmor / OctoPrint_MultiCam

Extends the Control tab of OctoPrint, allowing the ability to switch between multiple webcam feeds.
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Is there a specific URL format required to enable streaming from mjpg_streamer? #33

Closed SEWFlyers closed 3 years ago

SEWFlyers commented 3 years ago

Hello, new to the project. I have a quick question. Is there a specific format for the URL that MultiCam is looking for? I've followed Mark Zachmann's updated instructions, "Headless Streaming Video with the Raspberry Pi Zero W and Raspberry Pi Camera" off on Medium, and between that and Jackson Liam's mjpg-streamer project on Github, I can stream to my browser no problem. However, I'm trying to display the video within the MultiCam plugin and it doesn't seem to be happy with the default address, even if I use the stream_simple or static_simple versions. The address output from the mjpg_streamer is http://[hostname]:8080/stream.html

Problem solved. It was a PEBKAC issue ... I just needed to do a little more searching to realize I needed to add ?action=stream to make it work.