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IP Cams, live streams?

Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 10:41 pm
by 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?

Re: IP Cams, live streams?

Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 12:28 pm
by 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/

Re: IP Cams, live streams?

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 9:37 pm
by sahib12
hey dan, thanks for replying, when i access my ip cam from the browser it comes up with a logon page like this
ipcamxbox.jpg
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?

Re: IP Cams, live streams?

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 9:48 pm
by 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

Re: IP Cams, live streams?

Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 9:51 pm
by 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 :)

Re: IP Cams, live streams?

Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 2:09 pm
by captainsensation
sahib12 wrote: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?

Re: IP Cams, live streams? SOLVED

Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 5:27 pm
by 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