# Showing a Video stream from a web based camera

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/showing-a-video-stream-from-a-web-based-camera/38999>\
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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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**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:** [September 25, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/showing-a-video-stream-from-a-web-based-camera/38999/8 "2020-09-25T12:28:28Z")

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Vision's IP Camera Viewer can't do RTSP, no matter what encoding is present. You might consider using my Image Streamer module:

> [@Automation Professionals' Image Streamer Driver Module](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/automation-professionals-image-streamer-driver-module/29371):
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> 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…

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