IP Camera access using OpenCV

Question

The code given below is for accessing an Axis IP camera using OpenCV. On running the program it first displays "Error in opening cap_ffmpeg_impl..." and then it displays Camera not found.

#include <opencv\cv.h>
#include <opencv2\highgui\highgui.hpp>
#include <opencv2\imgproc\imgproc.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>

using namespace std;
using namespace cv;

int main()
{
    Mat frame;
    namedWindow("video", 1);
    VideoCapture cap("http://IPADDRESS/video.mjpg");
    if(!cap.isOpened())
    {
        cout<<"Camera not found"<<endl;
        getchar();
        return -1;
    }
    while ( cap.isOpened() )
    {
        cap >> frame;
        if(frame.empty()) break;

        imshow("video", frame);
        if(waitKey(30) >= 0) break;
    }   
    return 0;
}

Where am I going wrong?

Answer 1

I faced similar problem when trying to display IP camera using the public IP camera. Opencv needs some typical kind of URL to open the camera.Try the URL from below code. Heres the code that worked for me.

int main(int, char**) {
    cv::VideoCapture vcap;
    cv::Mat image;

    // This works on a D-Link CDS-932L
    const std::string videoStreamAddress = "http://ID:PASSWORD@IPADDRESS:PORTNO/mjpeg.cgi?user=ID&password=ID:PASSWORD&channel=0&.mjpg";
       //open the video stream and make sure it's opened
    if(!vcap.open(videoStreamAddress)) {
        std::cout << "Error opening video stream or file" << std::endl;
        return -1;
    }

    for(;;) {
        if(!vcap.read(image)) {
            std::cout << "No frame" << std::endl;
            cv::waitKey();
        }
        cv::imshow("Output Window", image);

        if(cv::waitKey(1) >= 0) break;
    }   

}

Copy this code as it is and try.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>
#include <iostream>
int main(int, char**) {
    cv::VideoCapture vcap;
    cv::Mat image;

    // This works on a D-Link CDS-932L

    const std::string videoStreamAddress = "http://USER:PWD@IPADDRESS:8088/mjpeg.cgi?user=USERNAME&password=PWD&channel=0&.mjpg";
       //open the video stream and make sure it's opened
    if(!vcap.open(videoStreamAddress)) {
        std::cout << "Error opening video stream or file" << std::endl;
        return -1;
    }

    for(;;) {
        if(!vcap.read(image)) {
            std::cout << "No frame" << std::endl;
            cv::waitKey();
        }
        cv::imshow("Output Window", image);

        if(cv::waitKey(1) >= 0) break;
    }   

}