# Ip camera viewer **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [April 23, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951 "2015-04-23T23:49:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jkelleyus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@jkelleyus](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jkelleyus)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/1 "2015-04-23T23:49:54Z")
Will the ip camera viewer display a RTSP stream? If not, then why not? An old standard MJPEG stream is useless to most customers, and it appears users have been asking for newer stream flexibility for several years. I’d appreciate any help here. We are evaluating Ignition for purchase and the ip cam viewer is important to our decision makers. Thanks again, John ---
**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/2 "2015-04-24T14:01:10Z")
I can get on board with a newer camera viewer that supports newer video streams. ---
**Author:** ![jkelleyus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@jkelleyus](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jkelleyus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/3 "2015-04-24T14:26:29Z")
Does anyone from Inductive Automation have any input or suggestions here? Thanks, John ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/4 "2015-05-04T19:50:32Z")
We’d love to get newer streaming formats into Ignition’s viewer component somehow but there simply aren’t any options that are technically feasible at the moment. Java doesn’t have any native support for these newer formats and nobody writes codec implementations in anything but C/C++. What that leaves us with is trying to integrate one of the libraries that uses native code to bridge between one of the open source libraries like VLC or FFMPEG. The problem with these is that they are complicated and brittle, and when they crash they crash hard, taking down the whole JVM with them. ---
**Author:** ![mazeyrat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mazeyrat/32/10955_2.png) [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/5 "2015-05-04T20:13:47Z")
VLCJ-pro seems to be a possible solution with out of process media player and a separate JVM. [capricasoftware.co.uk/#/projects/vlcj-pro](http://www.capricasoftware.co.uk/#/projects/vlcj-pro) Not pure Java, and vlc or part of it needed on client side… ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/6 "2015-05-04T20:46:39Z")
[quote=“mazeyrat”]VLCJ-pro seems to be a possible solution with out of process media player and a separate JVM. [capricasoftware.co.uk/#/projects/vlcj-pro](http://www.capricasoftware.co.uk/#/projects/vlcj-pro) Not pure Java, and vlc or part of it needed on client side…[/quote] Of everything I’ve seen, this has the most promise. But it’s pretty complex and would take a lot of work to engineer away the need for VLC to be installed on clients. ---
**Author:** ![zxcslo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zxcslo/32/61610_2.png) [@zxcslo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zxcslo)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/7 "2017-09-24T09:52:14Z")
Any news on this? It 2017 now… ☝ ---
**Author:** ![ahmed.elhagrasy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ahmed.elhagrasy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ahmed.elhagrasy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/8 "2017-10-31T12:33:04Z")
Kindly update about this topic, as i am stuck with a full project using DSE cameras which uses RSTP to view cameras, and i need to view it on ignition ASAP Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![Kyle\_Chase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kyle\_Chase](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kyle_Chase)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/9 "2017-11-01T04:07:06Z")
Are there other options available, such as mp4? ---
**Author:** ![dcamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dcamp](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dcamp)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/10 "2017-11-01T14:09:21Z")
What is the (Streaming address(example: http;[//10.0.0.40/streaming/channels/1/picture](https://10.0.0.40/streaming/channels/1/picture)) of that camera? - Can you provide a model #?) ---
**Author:** ![ryan.payne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ryan.payne](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryan.payne)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/11 "2019-12-30T00:52:06Z")
Any word on the RTSP??? ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/12 "2019-12-31T01:25:30Z")
The IP Camera Viewer component does not yet (and may never) support RTSP. A possible work-around: > [@Automation Professionals' Image Streamer Driver Module](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/automation-professionals-image-streamer-driver-module/29371): > > Automation Professionals is pleased to announce a Release Candidate for its new driver module, supporting the live Network Image transmission format of [Keyence CV-5000](https://www.keyence.com/products/vision/vision-sys/cv-5000/index.jsp) machine vision controllers, plus support for common Network Video streams via [OpenCV](https://opencv.org/). Stream metadata is exposed as OPC items, and the output streams are Motion JPEG. The IP Camera Viewer Component in Vision can consume these streams, making it possible to integrate IP Cameras that don't have MJPEG support or have poor support f… I haven't had and pressure to do the v8 version of this yet, but it is on the to-do list. After the holidays, perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![OscarLucas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/oscarlucas/32/6417_2.png) [@OscarLucas](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/OscarLucas)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/13 "2020-06-04T06:23:45Z")
Where’s this module? We need to integrate the camera image. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ip-camera-viewer/9951/14 "2020-06-04T12:45:00Z")
This is a third party module (by me). Did you follow the link to the other topic where it was announced?