Webcam.... Some Ideas....

[max2950]

First of all very big thanks to all of you spending time writing custom firmwares !

I was wondering if it is possible to implement some kind of MPEG4 encoder in the WL500g... But i think that the routers CPU might be a little bit weak for doing this...
What would be great is a feature to specify the compression level of the outputed JPEG picture...

I also would like to port the ActiveX component for viewing the webcam to a java applet. Since i do not have enough free time to do reverse engineering i just wanted to ask if someone knows where to find the source code of this ActiveX component?

Best Regards....


hi again !
I tried to do some packet sniffing on port 7777... But i could not figure out how the image data is organized within the stream. I thought the JPEG images were just putted one after each other on the network, but i was wrong... Any ideas?

[joao]

I also would like to port the ActiveX component for viewing the webcam to a java applet. Since i do not have enough free time to do reverse engineering i just wanted to ask if someone knows where to find the source code of this ActiveX component?


In fact, this router should be de-microsoftized. And replacing that ActiveX control for a Java Applet is really needed.
But I don't think there is a need to study the ActiveX control. There is an interesting project called webcam_server that can be used as a replacement for the ActiveX control used by Asus:
http://webcamserver.sourceforge.net/

[oCe]

I'd really like a compression-option for the webcam indeed (with my 64KB/sec upload I can get about 1 frame per 1.5-2 seconds...), but MPEG-4 is a bit overdone I guess; just some motionJPEG or any other decent but 'light' (in terms of cpu power that is needed) would be preferred (or required). and a java instead of active-x client would be even better! I'm no java and/or firmware-coder, so can't help with that; but can help with testing, where needed.

[Samba]

Hi!

Another webcam idea, if anyone have the time and interest to implement it: Encryption of the pictures so that only "authorized" people would be able to see them properly. If a Java applet is used, it could probably ask for a key, and use it to decrypt the images before showing them. I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if Java has standard libraries for doing DES encryption/decryption. I don't know if real time DES encryption would be to processor intensive for the Wl-500g box.

Regards,
Samba

[ronin]

does anyone have an idea of what the output is that is send through port 7777 and might there be any media players for it?

I'm getting sick of this active X component

[Antiloop]

does anyone have an idea of what the output is that is send through port 7777 and might there be any media players for it?

I'm getting sick of this active X component

find a client that is capable of receiving data from the program RCAMD, i don't know if this is some standard stream or something...

[max2950]

does anyone have an idea of what the output is that is send through port 7777 and might there be any media players for it?

I'm getting sick of this active X component


You could give this a try (http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=1864) ;)