Playing/processing video stream

Hi!

I'm using mplayer to receive and play a h264 video stream on my windows 7 computer. My question is how to get this video stream into matlab/simulink (R2013b) for video processing? I'm using the following command to receive and play the stream in mplayer:

mplayer.exe -fps 200 -demuxer h264es ffmpeg://tcp://10.71.99.212:2278*

Thanks in advance

Regards Olle

Answer 1

[Dinesh Iyer]

Hi Olle,

It is currently not possible to read a H.264 stream into MATLAB. However, it is possible to read MMS streams using the From Multimedia File Block or the vision.VideoFileReader system object. Here is the link to the documentation that might help: From Multimedia File Block

Hope this helps.

Dinesh

Answer 2

[Florian Enner]

I've uploaded a submission that supports streaming h264 (among other formats) from ip cameras. It supports R2013b and does not require any toolboxes. It currently only supports MATLAB code, not Simulink.

% Connect to stream
cam = HebiCam('<address>');

% Continously display latest image
figure();
fig = imshow(getsnapshot(cam));
while true
    set(fig, 'CData', getsnapshot(cam)); 
    drawnow;
end

You can get it from FileExchange or Github