How do I configure this weird MJPEG camera?

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Hi, I have a Panasonic AW-HE2 camera which outputs an MJPEG video stream. Its webpage does it in a weird way though, because it just refreshes a script really fast that outputs an image. You can see here:

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Now, if I try to set the camera’s URL (http://192.168.1.148/cgi-bin/view.cgi?action=snapshot) as the URL for the MJPEG IP camera entity, it just shows a still image.

I got it to work this summer somehow, but I forgot how I did it and i haven’t found a way to turn the still images into a video stream, I have tried several other keywords for the ?action= thing in the URL to no avail. The only option is to refresh the image really fast.

I could also give you the javascript files to see if you could do something with the &n= option at the end.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Hi Arctis,

While I don’t have that exact model; I do have some with similar setups.

Research to see if there’s a configuration for RTSP; that’d be for a live stream instead of snapshot mode. I had to setup the RSTP ports for my cameras in HA to get mine to work.

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I went on Live stream from Panasonic IP camera into web page using RTSP stream and my camera isn’t in the list of supported cameras for RTSP streaming. Any other option?

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I did a quick search and found this resource:

https://www.ispyconnect.com/camera/panasonic

Looks like you can use the http port but alter your URL target to:

cgi-bin/mjpeg?stream=[CHANNEL]

If you click the URL, it generates a syntax like this:

http://{USERNAME}:{PASSWORD}@{CAMERA IP}/cgi-bin/mjpeg?stream={STREAM NUMBER}

See if that will pull in the stream instead of sending snapshots.

EDIT: Actually, may not paste in browser; see if you can “open live stream” in VLC just to test out if that’s the correct syntax for the camera.

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It does work, but the resolution is 320x360 instead of 640x480. I want the higher resolution since the first one is kind of pixelated. I tried http://192.168.1.148/cgi-bin/camera?ch=0&resolution=640x480 but all it shows is a black screen.

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Did you try with: /cgi-bin/mjpeg?stream instead of “camera” in the URL?

It doesn’t look like resolution is supported in the URL call for live stream.

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If i go to the camera’s webpage, it says it supports 640x480
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(the resolutions are a bit off, theyre supposed to say 320x240 and 640x480)

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The stream number may denote the resolution (like 0 for 320 or 1 for 640); don’t know for sure, but you can test them both out.

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?stream=0 and ?stream=1 both output 320x240. I know it should output 640x480 since it worked a couple months ago.