Motion Stream Test Program

Introduction

Test the webcam stream from Motion.

Detailed Description

This program connects to the webcam stream of Motion and outputs the raw data to standard out.

Attached Files

http://lavrsen.dk/foswiki/pub/Motion/MotionStreamTestProgram/streamtest.gz

Contains one file. streamtest.c

Installation

First edit the two parameters:

• #define IPADDR "127.0.0.1"
  IP address of motion server, 127.0.0.1 = localhost
• #define PORTNUMBER 8081
  Set the portnumber

Compile the program with

gcc -Wall -O3 -o streamtest streamtest.c

Users Guide

Run the program with

./streamtest > testfile.txt

Now you can see the data using a text editor.

The file must start with something like this

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Motion/3.1.18
Connection: close
Max-Age: 0
Expires: 0
Cache-Control: no-cache
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: no-cache
Content-type: multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=BoundaryString
(empty line)
--BoundaryString
Content-type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 5516
(empty line)
Binary stuff JFIF Binary stuff
Binary stuff....

And later in the file you must see this repeating itself

(empty line)
--BoundaryString
Content-type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 5546
(empty line)

Comments and Bug Reports

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