LE 9.80 nightly - Kodi can't play a MJPEG stream?

ghtester · November 26, 2020 at 10:34 PM

I have found some How To's and tried to create .pls and .strm files to be opened from Videos menu. Unfortunately so far I couldn't finish that simple task succesfully.

The stream (MJPG 640x480, Planar 4:2:2 YUV full scale) is produced by ESP32CAM module using this source code: esp32-cam-mjpeg-multiclient/esp32_camera_mjpeg_multiclient.ino at master · arkhipenko/esp32-cam-mjpeg-multiclient · GitHub

It works fine with Firefox, Chrome, Edge and VLC but no way from Kodi.

Files tested:

cam1.pls

[playlist]

NumberOfEntries=1

File1=http://192.168.35.201/mjpeg/1

Title1=IP Camera

cam1.strm

http://192.168.35.201/mjpeg/1

Debug log when tried to open first the cam1.pls and then cam1.strm file:

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Am I doing something wrong or there's a bug?

ghtester · December 5, 2020 at 2:40 PM

OK, so after some testing I have found an incompatibility with Kodi / LE 9.80 nightly and ESP32CAM. On LE 9.2.6 it partially worked but unreliably.

I have tested the same with another camera based on mjpg_streamer and it works fine.

Also I have discovered that UVC drivers are working fine so it's possible to stream or make a pictures from an UVC compatible USB webcam connected locally.