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Be notified in your mobile phone of intruders in your home, and take photos of them
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The article describes cam2web project - an open source application aimed for streaming cameras as MJPEG streams.
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How to create a Windows Phone app to take timed pictures from camera, and upload them on an Apache webserver to view them remotely
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10 Mar 2017 by Miguel Diaz Kusztrich
Be notified in your mobile phone of intruders in your home, and take photos of them
29 Aug 2017 by Andrew Kirillov
The article describes cam2web project - an open source application aimed for streaming cameras as MJPEG streams.
14 Aug 2015 by Emiliano Musso
How to create a Windows Phone app to take timed pictures from camera, and upload them on an Apache webserver to view them remotely
21 Dec 2015 by Richard MacCutchan
Just check to see if i.getImage(); returns null.
4 Apr 2023 by ToughDev
How to use Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless as cheap CCTV camera replacement
13 Jun 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
You are not getting it. "Color specification" it totally irrelevant to it. You images are really different: motion, lighting, noise, and so on. One second is huge time to make images very difficult on a pixel level. Even nearest frames (no matter what your frame rate is) will be very different...
16 Sep 2014 by George Jonsson
Not sure this will solve your problem, but when you create the event handler for the NewFrame eventVideoStream[i].NewFrame += new NewFrameEventHandler(VideoStream_NewFrame1);you will end up using the same method for both cameras.This means that you need to make use of the sender parameter...
6 May 2015 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
First part of my answer may come at surprise, because it's not even discussed in the Open CV documentation: strict background subtraction, even based on referenced background image (called background model), is theoretically impossible. This is because even two images provides incomplete...
21 May 2016 by Mehdi Gholam
Read this : QR Code Scanner in ASP.Net Web Application Using Smart Phone Camera[^]
21 May 2016 by Dave Kreskowiak
If you're looking for copy'n'paste source, you're going to fail your final project. It WILL be found out and you WILL be called out for plagiarism.Next, ASP.NET code runs ENTIRELY server-side, so the only way your ASP.NET code can use a webcam is if it's directly attached to the web server....
21 Jul 2019 by OriginalGriff
Quote: I want to count my products in stock by android phone using its camera. but i don't want to use any specific android app. I just want to open chrome browser and load a webpage something like myProductCounter.com which is built to count products using phone's camera and read barcodes....
23 Aug 2020 by Hank Williams
Have you tried using the Aforge VideoSourcePlayer control instead of the picturebox control? I think the VideoSourcePlayer control is more suited to your needs.
7 Feb 2021 by OriginalGriff
Basically, we can't help you - we have no idea what you are doing with the image, and no access at all to your local network or the computer it is loaded on - but loading a video of any form frame by frame as separate images is never going to...
7 Feb 2021 by RickZeeland
RTSP streams are commonly used, see if your camera supports these. Here is a CodeProject article about it: Stream Player Control[^]
16 Feb 2021 by OriginalGriff
You should talk to the people who created it - Integration tools | Bosch Security and Safety Systems I Nordics[^] - they should provide technical support and will know more about their product than we will. If they don't, then find another...
17 Feb 2021 by RickZeeland
This is from the Bosch Video SDK5 help file: Quote: VCA Overlay and VCA Configuration Concept All VCA related actions are handled through the IVcaConfig interface of the VCA configuration object that each video renderer provides with its...
24 Apr 2023 by LeisureBamboo
Some kinds of DCR files' format/data structure
21 Nov 2013 by Richard MacCutchan
Please do not post the same question in multiple forums.
5 Jan 2014 by Somanadh B
I am doing a project releated to livewallpaper, my app requirement is when the user Click the button camera preview set as wallpaper. i am doing all this stuff, but problem is after set the camera preview as wallpaper, when try to open the camera, it shows camera failed, i know we create only...
6 Jan 2014 by Xiao Ling
When you start another Activity, your previous Activity will be paused. The onPause() method will be triggered. so what you should do: @Override protected void onPause() { // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.onPause(); if (camera != null)...
7 Jan 2014 by Somanadh B
use the OnVisbilityChange() in Engine class to release the camera and start the camera.@Overridepublic void onVisibilityChanged(boolean visible) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.onVisibilityChanged(visible); if (visible) { try { //open the...
2 Feb 2014 by DaksithaW
I have tried many ways but some programs give me a gray color empty screen and another just exit the code detecting camera can not be accessed but couldn't find a solution even though program are successfully build in opencv.I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 with Opencv 2.4.3 These...
4 Feb 2014 by Legor
If the camera is installed correctly you can try this solution which i found here:http://answers.opencv.org/question/133/how-do-i-access-an-ip-camera/[^]#include #include #include int main(int, char**) { cv::VideoCapture vcap; ...
5 Feb 2014 by DaksithaW
Thank you so much for your reply sir, I am doing a Image processing project of human detection using my ip camera so to do that need to access Ip camera directly using opencv. I have used several C++ code projects to do that but always have a problem with access it using the IP adress, as an...
24 Feb 2014 by yamanneameh
Hallo,after calibration and undistortion using opencv, I have this image and I need to remove the black borders(crop the image)only depending on the camera parameters which I have in the output XML file so how I can define the region of...
25 Feb 2014 by JoCodes
There are many ways to do this. You can try PhoneGap or HTML5 or even JQuery plugins.Adding some links which can get you started.introduction-to-phone-gap/[^]getusermedia/intro/[^]capturing-camerapicture-data[^]
27 Jun 2014 by Olayèmi Ouabi
Here is what i've finally found. Not perfect but it helps me for a while. References : DirectX.Capture.dll and DShowNET.dll Public Class Prise_Image ' Just for the streaming Dim Camera As DirectX.Capture.Filter Dim CaptureInfo As...
3 Jul 2014 by Member 10923081
Hello, I am a Japanese high school girl. My English is poor. I am using the translation of Google. Please understand when i use the strange vocabulary. I'm currently preparing a national convention. I would like to see in Android in real time IP camera video.IP camera uses a product that...
3 Jul 2014 by leon de boer
There are some formats of streaming Android does not support notably many in the MPEG4 class because they are simply to processor intensive. Most IP cameras and video servers offer H.263 or H.264 as an option and they should work on most andriod systems.Here is the Android support...
7 Aug 2014 by Erloic
Hi all,I'm a computer developper , i've been strugling lately for a month now, trying to install all necesary packages to get my Xtion camera to work on my Quad core(Arm) Udoo board with Ubuntu 12.04 with any given sample.Does anybody knows a good tutorial of Xtion + Udoo(ARM) on Ubuntu...
16 Sep 2014 by adjo-inggit
i have a problem when i try connect two IP camera (dlink-930l) using array. i use AForge library. all of video only shows in one picturebox alternately. what should i do to connect each camera in different picturebox. can i create array eventframehandler ?using AForge.Video;public...
16 Sep 2014 by adjo-inggit
i try edit your solution, and it's work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.. thank you master George Jonsson, here the code i have edited from your code... ....// private PictureBox[] boxes;public PictureBox[] boxes = new PictureBox[2];private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) ...
4 Oct 2014 by Member 11128411
Hi, im making a program like that. If web cam detects any motion then i want to take picture of this motion. I finished the program but i need just get that image. There is a picture from my project. After message box shows you "motion is dedected" when user click "Tamam" > "Okay"then screen...
4 Oct 2014 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
There is an article on CodeProject that explains how you can get the difference between two images. While you're having a look at the camera screen, you're watching images being changed as frames on the screen. Each of them in real are frames being provided to you. So, each frame might...
12 Oct 2014 by nakulkundra
Hi,I want to stream/Broadcast my Webcam Live to my Website, I using Windows Hosting and the website is developed over ASP.Net Please Guide , as i want to avoid using any Third Party
12 Oct 2014 by _Maxxx_
Try searching here[^]
14 Nov 2014 by Mehdi Gholam
Start here : http://www.mybigideas.co.uk/RPi/RPiCamera/[^]
21 Nov 2014 by Redgum
If you real question is how to get around using a proprietary 3rd party SDK for your IP camera (that may or may not cost money to get your hands on,) then I'd try using something open-source, like the AForge framework: https://code.google.com/p/aforge/[^]Otherwise, yes. You will need to...
22 Nov 2014 by krish0969
I am using multi input camera(bt878 chip) and have connected two cameras to chip. When I try to get the driver description I am getting only one driver.When I send the command to preview the video I can see the first camera.If I change the frame rate I can see the second camera also.But I am not...
23 Nov 2014 by Shaik Hayath
I have an Activity which calls a camera service which starts recording in background using the front camera. The requirement is to show the same video being recorded in a surface view. This is my activitypublic class StartTestActivity extends Activity implements SurfaceHolder.Callback...
24 Nov 2014 by Member 11258878
I am quite new to image processing but due to an urgent requirement needs to work on opencv to detect credit card edges then only that image can be saved to the web server and no noise remains in the background. I have followed all the samples provided along with opencv framework in android but...
30 Nov 2014 by Member 11182731
HELP! i dont know where to start kindly give me a step by step instruction.
14 Jan 2015 by bilal taj
I am working on windows phone app, In which i need to capture video using front camera. I am able to capture video using back camera but couldn't find a way to capture video with front camera using c#. Kindly Give me an idea that how can i achieve my task ,your help would be appreciated.Thanks...
9 Feb 2015 by Member 11438678
Hey Surajit Das,If you still have issues with Zbarcam, I can recommend you a good sdk for barcodes. You can find it here, its name is Ozeki Camera SDK. There is a pretty good description about that software, so I hope it will help you.Good luck!Regards,Leon
11 Feb 2015 by Xiao Ling
Here is a case study[^] about how Avision adopts Dynamsoft's barcode SDK to bundle with document scanners. And you can see that the use of Dynamsoft barcode reader SDK is pretty simple:private void btnReadBarcode_Click(object sender, EventArgs e){ this.txtBarcode.Text = ""; ...
18 Feb 2015 by yooomickey
Hi Chris,Raspberry Pi as low-cost HD surveillance camera by Christoph BuengerI installed everything according to your instruction but I can see anything from my cam neither with Firefox nor Chrome.Please any idea what the problem is?
18 Feb 2015 by Pikoh
Wrong place to ask! You should go to the article page (codeproject.com) and add a comment at the end. That way who wrote the article may answer you..
20 Feb 2015 by A.Castillo
Hi all,I have a Microsoft USB webcam and I want to record the video/audio stream. I found a very useful C# web camera software but I don’t get any audio from the camera’s microphone. Here is the code I am trying to employ:connector.Connect(_camera, _mpeg4Recorder.AudioRecorder); //This...
20 Feb 2015 by manak chand
Try below mentioned links.. these might be helpfull...CodeProject - Sending and playing microphone audio over network[^]CodeMiles - Sending and playing microphone audio over network[^]
26 Feb 2015 by A.Castillo
Thanks for the answers, in the meantime I could figure it out myself. I made a mistak in the code.connector.Connect(_microphone,_mpeg4Recorder.AudioRecorder);This is the right one, first i tried to connect the camera to the _mpeg4Recorder.AudioRecorder instead of the microphone. My bad,...
3 Mar 2015 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
What portrait mode? It's apparent that the camera sensor remains in vertical or horizontal position until you mechanically or optical turn it by 90 degrees. The question just makes no sense.—SA
14 Mar 2015 by shareallofme@gmail.com
Hi allI am a .NET developer and i have some problems need everybody support.I have using camera Foscam FI9821P. I want control it and Custom Record when i send request not using alarm record or schedure record, or I custom record video to SD Card on Camera IP when i send requestI have read...
16 Apr 2015 by Mahmoud M El-Sayed
Hello everyone,I need to recognize images using Android Development and Sift Algorithms or another algorithm .I wanna make application that the user will detect photo with camera and this photo will match with the database and the result will show to him text or other media please i wanna help.
2 Jun 2015 by Peter Leow
Follow this => https://ipcamnetwork.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/acessing-your-camera-from-the-internet/[^]
22 Jun 2015 by Abhinav S
This link should help you - How To Get Access to Front & Back Camera in Windows 8.1 Store App[^].The whole idea would be to enumerate through the device information object and get the appropriate cameras.DeviceInformation frontWebcam = (from webcam in webcamList where...
22 Jul 2015 by Member 10317959
function capturePhoto() { intel.xdk.camera.takePicture(50,true,"jpg"); }document.addEventListener("intel.xdk.camera.picture.add",function(event){ if (event.success == true) { var name = event.filename; ...
16 Apr 2020 by Srimoyee Sarkar
I have an imageview in this app, I am able to capture an image on clicking the imageview, but when I want to display that image on the imageview after capturing, the app is getting crashed. Tried some codes from internet, but the problem still persists. What is the problem? I cannot understand...
3 Nov 2015 by ARY MUSTOFA
hi.Here I want to share a little bit about the problems that I have experienced in my program.previously I've created a small application to take pictures with the camera.I create applications using Visual Studio 2012 and VB.Net and I also use one component from DevExpressnamely Camera...
23 Nov 2015 by Member 12158013
Regarding your instructions on surveillance camera:Am trying to set up a shared folder on a windows machineI am getting an error message "Mounting local filesystems...mount: mount point 0 does not exist" upon reboot.Additionally, After assuming I can accomplish this: I am not clear what...
21 Dec 2015 by wseng
I wonder how to avoid the app from crashing if no image is inserted into SQLite ?In Activity B, there has one save button, one open camera button and imageView.save button used to return the image to A, open camera button used for user to select picture and imageView placed the selected...
9 Feb 2016 by Surendra Kandira
I'm using aforge in winforms for video recording. I wanna to record video both (front and back camera) in window tablet. I have able to find list of Video Capture Device but not identify which is front or rear camera.I have sawed you my finding video capture device snippet of code.Name...
24 Apr 2016 by Member 12160184
HiI have developed an application in WPF .net Framework 4.5.2 and need to capture images from connected camera devices. This works on a Windows 7 machine but my software does not work on a Lenovo windows 10 touch screen that I bought.The application relies on microsoft.expression.encoder...
21 May 2016 by Member 11800686
I have Final year project that implement a website. I facing a problem with implementing Scan Qr Code function. 1. I need to create a QR code scanner in my "Scan.aspx", this page will display a camera using webcam. If is phone, it will use the phone camera to scan a QR code image.2. I no...
21 May 2016 by F-ES Sitecore
Rather than choosing a final year project and coming on here to ask someone to do the project for you and give you all the code so you can submit it as your own and cheat your way to a qualification you don't deserve, why don't you instead find an existing project on-line that is already...
29 May 2016 by George Jonsson
You could try this articleC# \ VB.NET Camera Communication Libraries[^]Maybe it will help you out.
30 May 2016 by Member 12530466
Have made an application (VB/NET)that capture pics on packed articles.The problem is to get the resolution higher than 640 x 360 pixels.Many have this issue on the web but I can't find a not to complex solution.The year i 2016 and I thought these things should be fairly easy, but...
5 Jun 2016 by عيسى الحرباوي
i tried VLC network stream and it worked goodfor monitoring only
20 Jun 2016 by Member 12358097
I am calling camera via intent , my requirement is that camera should open and be fix in landscape mode only i.e camera in default landscape mode. Is it possible via intent camera or i have to write custom camera class , any suggestions or reference link.What I have tried:Intent intent =...
28 Jun 2016 by abhay1722
Quote:I am developing an android app in which the user can select from the gallery or can click a photo through the phone's camera and save in the app's folder called "FiZZ".The camera part of app runs perfectly fine on all android phones except Samsung.The code given below throws a...
30 Jun 2016 by Nagendra kumar 2
i have create a website superration.com and i am create android app in webview, when i open website on mobile browser camera is working fine taking picture and storing image on server but in webview i am not able to open camera in webview.What I have tried:public classMainActivity...
29 Nov 2016 by Member potato hopya
hi guys, beginner programmer here. ... any links of DLL's on how to capture an image and serves as a face recognition like "capure camera on your laptop using C#"i want to try some mini-application for my system i need your help thank you .`What I have tried:i tried some...
29 Nov 2016 by ZurdoDev
There are many examples online. The first google result from your search term for me is Capture photos and video with Windows built-in camera UI[^].
18 Jul 2017 by Member 13233111
I Want to learn about how to capture image on login button click from the front camera of smartphone without knowing user and display the pic on the next page. For development I am currently using PhoneGap. Please help. What I have tried: I have just created a login form with 2 textbox and...
10 Dec 2017 by KarstenK
Try the mighty ffmpeg library, which is hugh and ahrd to learn but very powerful with some video4linux2.
9 Jul 2018 by SONI DHARMIT
Hi all, I am trying to implement portrait mode face detection using open cv but I cannot get accurate result and I am also trying to detect mouth but I cannot. In landscape mode it works perfectly and able to detect mouth and eyes, but in portrait mode I cannot Please help me and guide me how...
9 Jul 2018 by Darren_vms
Take a look at Open CV preview in portrait mode in Android. | f11labz[^] this should answer your questions and code is available for download /Darren
11 Jul 2018 by Member 13775524
I have a question related to DirectShow transform filter. I use USB2.0 camera to get the real-time video at 30fps (1920x1080) and I want to process the video image by inserting a transform filter. But after the insertion, the frame rate is decreased. For example, the processing time is about...
21 Nov 2018 by RickZeeland
Maybe you can use the VideoCaptureDevice Class, see example: VideoCaptureDevice Class[^]
17 Dec 2018 by pwojtysiak
Hello. Has anyone already been programming Ubiquitii IniFi via the rtsp protocol? I managed to get to them without logging in (I turned off the RTSP Authentication camera, however, the data returned is probably of a different format than the standard IP cameras.) I do not agree with the video...
17 Dec 2018 by RickZeeland
Did not try that, but you may find the ISpy information useful: Connect to Ubiquiti IP cameras[^] You can also test an RTSP stream with VLC networkstream.
23 Feb 2019 by Tozkie
I'm trying to implement landscape camera preview in portrait orientation also taken pictures in landscape, I have tried setting camera parameter rotation and degrees parameters.setRotation(rotation) but no luck. I just want to ask if this is possible? Or anyone can guide me to any sample...
23 Feb 2019 by Richard MacCutchan
See setRotation[^], which explains how to calculate the angle relative to he current position of the camera.
17 Apr 2019 by BillW33
Yes, there are infra-red cameras for phones and apps to use them See this link. You can do some Google research to find out what is already out there. You may be disappointed that the real thing doesn't look like a movie's special effects.
15 Jun 2019 by Mornepousse
Hello! I currently use directhow because it is the only one I found that allows to set the values (exposure, whitebalance...). but directhow is very very heavy while the application of windows 10 by default camera stream in full resolution (1080p or 2K) without saturating a core processor and...
1 Aug 2019 by RickZeeland
Take a look at the Intel IPP library: Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) | Intel® Software[^] Another interesting product is: Streamcoders MediaSuite[^] And maybe this light and open source Video Surveillance application: ContaCam[^]
11 Nov 2019 by Member 14629414
I'm using Usb 3.0 Basler camera acA640-750uc to capture the video and here is the program to use 2 cameras and grab the frame: #include #ifdef PYLON_WIN_BUILD # include #endif // Namespace for using pylon objects. using namespace Pylon; //...
12 Nov 2019 by RickZeeland
You could try to lower the resolution and framerate of the camera and see if that helps. Maybe you can find information about this in the documentation: Basler ace acA640-750uc - Area Scan Camera[^] Another option would be to use Windows Media Foundation, see CodeProject article here:...
14 Dec 2019 by OriginalGriff
You should talk to the people who created it - they should provide technical support and will know more about their product than we will. If they don't, then find another supplier and demand your money back! We can't help you, we don't even know which camera you are talking to!
9 Jan 2020 by ilostmyid2
Hi There's a source (camera) which sends notifications (motion alarms) to port 8085 of a server I've subscribed its IP for it. Maybe in such a negotiation I can't call it 'server', but it's our server which serves some other things. I've written two programs for receiving and echoing current...
10 Jan 2020 by Member 14712440
Hi, I have a project in C# using Emgu.CV. In my project I have a IP camera with video encoder H.264. The encode gave 2 strings to access the camera video, 1) http://192.168.0.11:35271/image1 2) rtsp://192.168.0.11/stream1.sdp With the following code I can access the video and show it in...
10 Jan 2020 by RickZeeland
Lots of users are having problems with this, maybe you can try another EMGU version, see: c# - EmguCV capture rtsp ip camera stream ffmpeg - Stack Overflow[^] Or try this CodeProject article: Stream Player Control[^]
28 Jan 2020 by Member 14653594
I am trying to retrieve recorded video from onvif camera (Axis and Hikvision cameras) to play back. I can play live stream uri from ip onvif camera. But I don't know how to implement "recording and replay" code for playback video. I reference this link[^]. I have no idea how to implement for...
28 Jan 2020 by RickZeeland
Take a look at this CodeProject article: How to Create a Video Recording Application (NVR/DVR software) for an ONVIF IP Camera using C#.NET[^] You might also be interested in the open source iSpy software: free-video-surveillance-software[^] Or the open source ONVIF Device Manager: ONVIF...
6 Aug 2021 by Member 14653594
I'm trying to retrieve playback video from onvif device with time range. I implement code to get replay uri according to Retrieving Recorded Video from an ONVIF Device[^] 1. GetServices 2. GetRecordingSummary 3. FindRecordings 4. GetRecordingSearchResults 5. GetReplayUri Then, I got replyUri...
28 Feb 2020 by Member 14631177
Since recently, our student enthusiast team is engaged to develop a stream video surveillance app which to be running on cloud server platform. The app functions include: - video capture by multiple edge devices (cameras) located in...
28 Feb 2020 by RickZeeland
Maybe you can take a look at: iSpy: Open Source Camera Security Software[^]
15 Jun 2020 by RickZeeland
That depends on what brand of camera is used, manufacturers like Panasonic have apps that can do that, see: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.panasonic.avc.cng.imageapp&hl=nl[^] And here is an app that supports several brands:...
28 Jul 2020 by Member 14883729
I am making an video app in kotlin and making my own camera using surfaceview. But whenever I run my app its showing white screen and the buttons which I have added. Its returning an error E/SurfaceView: Exception configuring surface ...
28 Jul 2020 by Member 14883729
I am working on an app which allow the users to record video and for that I have made the camera using surface view where I have added my own icons. I want to record video using the camera and display the video in an other activity and for that I...
31 Jul 2020 by Member 14903945
The correct way to specify the operation is (the namespace definition can be moved to the Envelope tag, with the other namespaces) Full explanation is on stackoverflow ...