IP Cams, live streams?

[sahib12]

Hey, I have googled around and anything i've tried has failed. I wish to view my ip cams on xbmc4xbox, it's a http stream and needs a username and password. Anybody here have any luck with ip cams on xbmc?

[Dan Dar3]

You could try crafting a .strm file to point to your webcam network stream:
http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/wiki/HOW-TO ... et_Streams

If it uses basic authentication you could try:
http://user:password@yourwebcam/

[sahib12]

hey dan, thanks for replying, when i access my ip cam from the browser it comes up with a logon page like this

I already login using the url but i have to log in a second time with the browser
Is there a way of bypassing this?

[Dan Dar3]

@sahib12
Without knowing more about your webcam, I can't really help much.

Some webcams apparently allow for authentication as part of the URL - I guess you could dig that into the documentation, ask their support, Google for it or look at the source code of the generated website and figure out how you need to craft your URL. I'd say the ActiveX authentication is a no go, the other one is. An idea is to try various URLs in VLC, like the post below does:

http://www.gadgetvictims.com/2009/07/fo ... t-two.html

[sahib12]

Awesome, thanks for sharing and for the advice, i'll get working on it now

EDIT* Thank you very much, it works perfectly now

[captainsensation]

Awesome, thanks for sharing and for the advice, i'll get working on it now

EDIT* Thank you very much, it works perfectly now

what did you do to get it working?

[sahib12]

Well before i used the .strm link as http://user:password@mywebcam/serverpush.htm but that did not work. Therefore I changed the .strm link to http://user:password@mywebcam/videostream.asf and then it loaded it and worked properly. I should of realized that xbmc MEDIA player would only play media streams not htm pages lol