video-face-detection

Figure out how to stream a local IP camera through a proxy (to avoid CORS/security) issues, and serve a static web site from the same localhost:port, so it can be displayed in a web page and subjected to manipulation by JavaScript -- specifically, for face detection using trackingjs.

Usage

Install as usual via

npm install

Run

node index.js http://url.to/camera.feed [port to serve on] [cameraUsername:password]

to run the server, which proxies the video feed and serves the static content, all off the same IP/port. Example: node index.js http://192.168.0.171/mjpeg.cgi admin:

You will likely need to change dashboard/index.html to update the path to the camera there too.

Load http://localhost:8080/index.html in the browser.

The relevant files are then index.js (the server) and everything in dashboard (the web page).

Configure ffserver for RTSP to MJPEG transcoding

Install ffmpeg and ffserver using brew brew install ffmpeg

Create the ffserver configuration file sudo vi /etc/ffserver.conf

Enter the following contents into ffserver.conf

HTTPPort 8888
HTTPBindAddress 0.0.0.0
MaxHTTPConnections 4000
MaxClients 1000
MaxBandwidth 10000000
CustomLog -

<Feed feed1.ffm>
   File /tmp/feed1.ffm
   FileMaxSize 40M
   Launch ffmpeg -i "rtsp://CAMERA_IP:8554/11"
</Feed>

<Stream ipcam.mjpeg>
   Feed feed1.ffm
   Format mpjpeg
   VideoBitRate 1024
   VideoFrameRate 15
   VideoSize 1280x720
   VideoIntraOnly
   NoAudio
   Strict -1
   NoDefaults
</Stream>

Start ffserver ffserver

Test http://localhost:8888/ipcam.mjpeg