Read stream from specific link

Question

I need to read stream from mjpeg with OpenCV library. In more details, I need to read http://194.126.108.66:8887/. But when I try to do it with

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Answer 1

OpenCV expects a filename extension for its VideoCapture argument, even though one isn't always necessary (like in your case).

You can "trick" it by passing in a dummy parameter which ends in the mjpg extension:

ipCam.open("http://194.126.108.66:8887/?dummy=param.mjpg")

This worked in my similar OpenCV Python case, so good luck!