I would like to embed the video of an IP camera in a Perspective view. If I navigate to http://<cameraIpAddress>/mjpg/video.mjpg and sign in I can view the stream in the web browser. If I put the same string in the VideoPlayer component (and check the liveFeed property), I can view the stream in a p…

It is going to depend entirely on what camera you are using, but typically the user name and password can be included in the URL. This is just an example: http://user:pass@192.168.1.20/videostream.cgi?user=user&pwd=pass&resolution=32

The camera is an AXIS M3046-V. Interestingly, http://<user>:<password>@<cameraIP>/mjpg/video.mjpg does correctly authenticate me directly in the browser (Chrome and Edge), but it does not work in a Perspective Client. I don’t get the video.mjpg:1 GET http://10.40.30.100/mjpg/video.mjpg 401 (Unauth…

Honestly ive struggled with this quite a bit. If you have ssl/tls enabled, it wont work at all due to chromium blocking mixed content. I have used a batch file to run a VLC command that re-streamed the RTSP stream from a camera, then used that URL in the video player component.

Good to know. Sounds like I may have to resort to some interesting work-arounds. Thanks for the help.

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@zacht , how did you tackle it?

I modified the project requirements so I didn't have to deal with this. In my case, no one asked for these features, I was just trying to be extra nice to the operators. Since it was going to be a challenge I put it on the perpetually growing list of "things I'd like to get back to someday."

Haha, ok, that sounds like a great soution.

Hello Team, I have same issue, when pass Camera URL with or without user, password in web browser it works correctly but in case of perspective session (Video player component) it does not work & getting below error. Error loading media. File not valid URL without authentication: http://10.XX.XX.…

Embed stream of IP camera requiring Digest Authentication Scheme

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josborn April 6, 2022, 5:47pm 6

You may want to check out Phil's module.