# Help with Perspective 8.1 Video Player and IP Camera **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [February 23, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-perspective-8-1-video-player-and-ip-camera/86285 "2024-02-23T19:21:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mkay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mkay](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mkay)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-perspective-8-1-video-player-and-ip-camera/86285/1 "2024-02-23T19:21:59Z")
Hello, I am looking for some troubleshooting help with the video player on perspective 8.1.36. I have a HANWHA PNM-8082VT IP camera. I can successfully view the MJPEG stream via a web browser on the gateway as well as my client PLC using the following link (details removed for security) [http://1.1.2.3/stw-cgi/video.cgi?msubmenu=stream&action=view&Channel=0&CodecType=MJPEG&FrameRate=1&CompressionLevel=10](http://1.1.2.3/stw-cgi/video.cgi?msubmenu=stream&action=view&Channel=0&CodecType=MJPEG&FrameRate=1&CompressionLevel=10) When using this link in the video player (livefeed set to true) i get the "Error Loading Media: File not valid" error message and looking for some assistance to further troubleshoot. When viewing the image in the browser it appears it's not embedded in another page. I've done a wget to the URL above and outputted to a file to provide additional information: ```auto --SamsungTechwin Content-Type: image/jpeg Content-Length: 150773 ����^@^PJFIF^@^A^A^A^@`^@`^@^@��^@C^@^K^H ^G^K ^M^L^K^N^Q^]^S^Q^P^P^Q#^Y^Z^U^])$,+)$('.3B8.1>1'(9N:>DFJJJ,7QVPGVBHJG��^@C^A^L^M^M^Q^O^Q"^S^S"G/(/GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG>^K��^@�^P^@^B^A^C^C^B^D^C^E^E^D^D^@^@^A}^A^B^C^@^D^Q^E^R!1A^F^SQa^G"q^T2���^H#B��^UR��$3br� ^V^W^X^Y^Z%&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz����������������������������������������������������������������>^K��^@�^Q^@^B^A^B^D^D^C^D^G^E^D^D^@^A^Bw^@^A^B^C^Q^D^E!1^F^RAQ^Gaq^S"2�^H^TB���� #3R�^Ubr� ^V$4�%�^W^X^Y^Z&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz�������������������������������������������������������������>?�Z(�aڊ(�AE^TP^@=�Q@��^@JQIKH^B��G�M1�j>��^D�@^E^TR�S^A?�^T^?�������aA����^X��ih��IR ���IE^@-^TRP^AJ))i����*�^F��x�=i*Y>��^G8�^MjY��i�p�kcp\^@^ ``` Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![mkay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mkay](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mkay)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-perspective-8-1-video-player-and-ip-camera/86285/2 "2024-02-26T14:45:59Z")
Small update. It appears the video player in perspective does not support any authentication of any kind - meaning if you embed the username and password in the url (basic authentication) it will not be passed to the camera/web server. I think this feature was requested a few years ago and looks like it is still not implemented. ---
**Author:** ![mkay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mkay](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mkay)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-perspective-8-1-video-player-and-ip-camera/86285/3 "2024-03-27T19:52:39Z")
Following up with my workaround - in case this helps anyone in the future. I created a batch file which ran part of a gateway script. The batch file uses CURL to connect to the camera and download the snapshot of the image. I then installed NGINX web server on port 81 and used that to serve the downloaded images to my perspective clients. ---
**Author:** ![YF129701](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/yf129701/32/60498_2.png) [@YF129701](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/YF129701)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-perspective-8-1-video-player-and-ip-camera/86285/4 "2024-03-27T21:04:40Z")
Its not that this feature isn't implemented - its that having the username and password as URL parameters is obviously a huge security issue, so no modern browser allows it anymore... ---
**Author:** ![mkay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mkay](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mkay)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-perspective-8-1-video-player-and-ip-camera/86285/5 "2024-03-27T21:10:25Z")
Yes, but the video player in ignition 8.x doesn't support ANY authentication other than basic with user and pass baked into URL. My cameras don't even support basic authentication so i needed to use digest, which CURL supports well. I am asking inductive automation to add authentication into their video player, like they had in their 7.9 IP camera viewer. It's gone backwards in terms of capability. ---
**Author:** ![YF129701](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/yf129701/32/60498_2.png) [@YF129701](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/YF129701)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-perspective-8-1-video-player-and-ip-camera/86285/6 "2024-03-27T21:43:01Z")
Can you show an example of a `curl` call that you're making (obviously obfuscated)? Also, it sounds like you're retrieving individual snapshots using the `curl` requests, sent at some interval and not a continuous stream - is that right? ---
**Author:** ![mkay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mkay](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mkay)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-perspective-8-1-video-player-and-ip-camera/86285/7 "2024-04-01T13:59:03Z")
This is what I am using: ```auto C:\curl\curl -S --connect-timeout 5 "http://1.2.3.4/stw-cgi/video.cgi?msubmenu=snapshot&action=view&Profile=6&Channel=2" --digest -u username:password --output "C:\nginx\html\camera1.jpg" ``` Note that the the trick is finding out the URL and syntax that your camera requires to output the jpeg image. ---
**Author:** ![colten.davis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@colten.davis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/colten.davis)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-with-perspective-8-1-video-player-and-ip-camera/86285/8 "2025-04-04T15:49:13Z")
I was having this issue. My camera is on my home network, self-teaching and things. My solution was to enable anonymous viewer login in the security/users section. Thanks all.