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This is a fork ofhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpg-streamer/ with added support for the Raspberry Pi camera via the input_raspicam plugin.

mjpg-streamer is a command line application that copies JPEG frames from oneor more input plugins to multiple output plugins. It can be used to streamJPEG files over an IP-based network from a webcam to various types of viewerssuch as Chrome, Firefox, Cambozola, VLC, mplayer, and other software capableof receiving MJPG streams.

It was originally written for embedded devices with very limited resources interms of RAM and CPU. Its predecessor "uvc_streamer" was created becauseLinux-UVC compatible cameras directly produce JPEG-data, allowing fast andperfomant M-JPEG streams even from an embedded device running OpenWRT. Theinput module "input_uvc.so" captures such JPG frames from a connected webcam.mjpg-streamer now supports a variety of different input devices.

WARNING: mjpg-streamer should not be used on untrusted networks!By default, anyone with access to the network that mjpg-streamer is runningon will be able to access it.

Input plugins:

• input_file
• input_http
• input_opencv (documentation)
• input_ptp2
• input_raspicam (documentation)
• input_uvc (documentation)

Output plugins:

• output_file
• output_http (documentation)
• output_rtsp (not functional)
• output_udp (not functional)
• output_viewer (documentation)
• output_zmqserver (documentation)

You must have cmake installed. You will also probably want to have a developmentversion of libjpeg installed. I used libjpeg8-dev. e.g.

sudo apt-get install cmake libjpeg8-dev

If you do not have gcc (and g++ for the opencv plugin) you may need to install those.

sudo apt-get install gcc g++

This will build and install all plugins that can be compiled.

cd mjpg-streamer-experimentalmakesudo make install

By default, everything will be compiled in "release" mode. If you wish to compilewith debugging symbols enabled, you can do this:

cd mjpg-streamer-experimentalmake distcleanmake CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debugsudo make install

There are options available to enable/disable plugins, setup options, etc. Thisshows the basic steps to enable the experimental HTTP management feature:

cd mjpg-streamer-experimentalmkdir _buildcd _buildcmake -DENABLE_HTTP_MANAGEMENT=ON ..makesudo make install

From the mjpeg streamer experimentalfolder:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../mjpg_streamer -o "output_http.so -w ./www" -i "input_raspicam.so"

SeeREADME.md or the individual plugin's documentation for more details.

Probably best in this threadhttp://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=45178

mjpg-streamer was originally created by Tom Stöveken, and has receivedimprovements from many collaborators since then.

mjpg-streamer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modifyit under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published bythe Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty ofMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See theGNU General Public License for more details.