UPNP Server for IP Web Cam

Question

I have a IP webcam and I want to serve the stream by a upnp server. What I need to do is simply; define a upnp device with the source url of IP web cam. Can you suggest such tool or script to do so ?

Regards.

Answer 1

This is a bit difficult to answer without knowing how the web cam provides its stream.

One server that will probably be able to do what you want is rygel. If you install it and the rygel-gst-launch plugin, you can configure it to serve arbitrary streams.

In the ~/.config/rygel.conf file, you'd need to include something like:

[GstLaunch]
enabled=true
launch-items=webcam
webcam-title=Web Camera
webcam-mime=video/mpeg
webcam-launch=souphttpsrc location=http://url-to-webcam-stream

Depending on the details of your webcam, you might need a different -mime and -launch lines. The launch line is a GStreamer pipeline description, as you might pass to gst-launch-0.10 (minus the parts used to display/play the stream).

Answer 2

I think you can do that with VLC, play around with the inputs and outputs, activate streaming and that should set you up. If you need help setting this up let me know and I'll write a small guide when I get home.