Welcome to VMXwebcam.

This simple OpenCV/Go program will serve your webcam or a movie file over http. This standalone program is useful for interacting with the rest of the VMX object detection system, but can also be easily incorporated into any of your personal projects. This code is MIT licensed, and there are both Mac and Linux compilation instructions below.

Turn camera 0 into an http server on port 3001

Usually my Mac's webcam is "camera 0", but when using virtual camera devices, the webcam can become "camera 0" or "camera 2."

./VMXwebcam 0 :3001

Then to get an image, you can do: curl http://localhost:3001 > image.jpg

Or just go to http://localhost:3001 in your browser and keep hitting refresh.

Turn movie file a.mp4 into an http server on port 3002

./VMXwebcam /tmp/a.mp4 :3002

Compiling

On Mac, you'll need to install OpenCV first.

./mac_builder.sh

On Linux, you'll need to install OpenCV, and then CMake is used for compilation.

./linux_builder.sh