How to publish a real-time video stream of an IP camera to a flash server with flash?

Question

Is there a flash that provides api for working with a remote stream, for example, with an IP camera?

Answer 1

Axis has several IP cameras that support RTMP:

http://search.axis.com/search?restrict=&ie=%3DUTF-8&site=All_sites&output=xml_no_dtd&client=axis_com&lr=%3DUTF-8&proxystylesheet=axis_com&oe=%3DUTF-8&q=rtmp&btnG.x=0tq

Wowza can retransmit the RTSP stream as RTMP. You do not need to recode for this. The same video can be transmitted as RTSP or RTMP, and this is simply a matter of different transmission protocols. Software can capture one and retransmit another without transcoding the video.

http://www.wowzamedia.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6470

I was sure that FMS also supported this, but I did not find any definitive links.

Here's an example where someone connects to an Axis IP camera and relays the image in FMS for streaming to Flash (which includes full decoding and re-encoding):

http://www.geekorgy.com/index.php/2010/06/ip-camera-to-fms-flash-video-howto-osx/

An announcement came up that there was a first IP camera with built-in RTMP support, although either I'm blind or don’t mention which camera it belongs to (or maybe this is just an early beta and therefore not mentioned):

http://groups.google.com/group/c-rtmp-server/browse_thread/thread/f5de18f4e8b5ea5f

Answer 2

Not.

Flash can only process .flv video streams that none of the available public IP cameras can create.

In addition, you are very limited in manual handling of this, since Flash allows external network connections only when the target “server” will allow flash connections, which, apparently, your IP camera will not allow.