Java: Receive a multipart HTTP response

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user52386 picture user52386 · Jan 7, 2009 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

I'm writing a Java client application to receive live M-JPEG video from an IP camera. The video is sent by the camera as an endless multipart HTTP message where each part is a single JPEG frame. I need to process each of these frames as they arrive, so I'm hoping there's a way to make an HTTP request that asynchronously triggers an event as each message part/video frame is received.

Is anyone aware of any libraries that can do this? All the examples I can find on Google won't work because they use blocking calls that only parse the response and break it up into parts after the entire response has finished being received (which obviously won't work for an endless response).

I realise I could manually break up the data into parts as it arrives by searching for the message boundary but it just feels like I would be reinventing the wheel.

Answer

Loki picture Loki · Jan 8, 2009

This project: http://fmj-sf.net, does have a class to parse multipart/x-mixed-replace responses: http://fmj-sf.net/doc/fmj/net/sf/fmj/media/parser/MultipartMixedReplaceParser.html

Searching google code with: multipart/x-mixed-replace lang:java

I found some other examples like: http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=multipart%2Fx-mixed-replace&btnG=Search+Code&hl=en&as_lang=java&as_license_restrict=i&as_license=&as_package=&as_filename=&as_case=

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#FCmBlvKk1MA/cambozola-0.50/src/com/charliemouse/cambozola/shared/CamStream.java&q=multipart/x-mixed-replace%20lang:java

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#Xnnd-VJLMBY/src/Grabber.java&q=multipart/x-mixed-replace%20lang:java

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