# Showing a Video stream from a web based camera

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**Created:** [September 23, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/showing-a-video-stream-from-a-web-based-camera/38999 "2020-09-23T20:38:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/showing-a-video-stream-from-a-web-based-camera/38999/2 "2020-09-23T20:54:36Z")

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If you log onto the web interface for it and either right click on the stream and look at properties, or inspect the page source, you're looking for the path to the mjpeg. You can then use that link in the video player component in ignition.  
If you need to pass in credentials to Perspective, try this:

> [@Perspective: Video player live stream with username/password](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-video-player-live-stream-with-username-password/38113/2):
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> You could try the prefix style - I believe it’s only valid with Basic authentication, but worth a try: https://username:password@hostname/path

However I can't recall if this worked or not

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