OpenCV: How to capture frames from an Ethernet camera

Question

I have earlier programmed USB webcam, where the sole aim is to get the live frames from the camera and display in a window. I used cvCaptureFromCAM for that purpose, which

Answer 1

You will not be able to access images on the camera if it doesn't have a web server running (check its doco). try typing this at a command prompt:

telnet 192.169.2.3 80

If telnet times out, your camera is not running a server on the default port 80.

Also see this question:C++ code Capturing image from IP / Ethernet Cameras (AXIS Cam)