philrene / node-mjpeg-proxy

A Node.JS MJPEG proxy implementation

node-mjpeg-proxy

This is a simple implementation of a MJPEG proxy written with node.js.

Documentation

Example Usage

var mpjegproxy = require("./lib/node-mjpeg-proxy");
mpjegproxy.createProxy("http://192.1.2.3:8080/videofeed");

Here, it will create a proxy to the source video feed (http://192.1.2.3:8080/videofeed) with the default options (below). You can now access the feed at http://localhost:5080/ .

Proxy

Proxy.createProxy(sourceURL, [options]);

Returns: a Proxy instance.

Arguments:

• sourceURL

  The source URL of the MJPEG feed to be proxied.

Options:

• port

  The destination port. Defaults to 5080.

TODO

• Add a resource URL so that it can serve on certain resource URLs rather than require its onw http.Server instance.

Credits

• Phil Rene (philrene)

• Chris Chua (chrisirhc)

node-mjpeg-proxy's Issues

SSL support?

Hi, I'm using node-mjpeg-proxy with restify (which in turn uses express under the hood). This is my test code:

var server = restify.createServer({
  name: "Server v2.0",
  key: key,
  certificate: cert
});
server.get("/cam", new mjpegProxy("http://admin:[email protected]:99/videostream.cgi").proxyRequest);

server.listen(8080, function() {
  console.log("Server ready to accept requests");
});

This works perfectly fine, except...Chrome says that the connection isn't secure. This is odd, because all my other endpoints work fine with SSL (it's not a problem with my certs). What could be the issue?

Digest authorization?

It seems to support basic authorization but is failing with digest auth. One of my cameras won't do basic.

I'm not a programmer, but I can read code a little. This seems to rely on the node "http" module, which is basic only. Would it be trivial to change it over to "request" module, which seems to support digest authorization? I may try to myself, but it will take me a while since I seem to be better at reading code than creating it.

Thanks--this is a great help. I don't like allowing my cheap cameras to speak directly to the outside world. This helps me isolate them.

Limits

Hello, there's any limit about how many streams could I setup? I've tested it but I can't get more than 6 at a time.

Thanks!