Convert/use USB Camera or Webcam to IP Based Camera for Free !

welcome everyone in this session I'm going to be talking about converting your USB camera or a laptop camera into an IP based camera so what I'm so I have a camera Microsoft Live cam USB camera that's me right there right so that's me right there so I'm going to convert this camera it's a USB camera it supports 1080p resolution at 30 FPS I will be converting this camera into an IP camera to do that I'm going to be using something called VLC media player it's quite popular for playing video files and whatnot I use it all the time for playing video files this is my main default media player if you don't have the current version you can always download it from VLC vlc's website so it's called VLC media player the current version at the time of recording is 3.0.18 so let's start the conversion process uh you're going to click on the media at the top left you're going to use open capture device uh and you can choose the direct show as the default if it's set to something else please select direct show for the capture mode you should now see your video devices uh listed here so it's the Microsoft Live Cam and also the audio of the camera got a microphone you can also use the microphone built into the camera if it's a laptop camera it will be listed as integrated camera and you can have an array I think Microsoft array for input feed with the advanced options you're going to choose Advanced and you're going to select dependent so again I had to play around a bit for this to properly work it wasn't working for me the first time so these are these are the settings that actually work for my end it might be different for your device so depending on what model it is you might be you might having you might be having a 720 or P camera instead of 1080p uh I checked the device properties because uh I'll show you what happens when I click the stream button so those are the advanced settings again if you click on the setting it for some reason it disappears on me although I don't think it does it saves it so you don't have to keep flipping clicking and keep doing this unless you have your VLC media player crashes or you stop it or or you have exited out the media player so first time starting the stream and this is what you'll have to do in at the bottom here you see play button click the little arrow down down arrow button and click choose click Stream So alt s or stream you can change any of these settings on this first page click next for the new destination for the destination setup you're going to choose rtsp you're going to click on ADD and for me I'm going to call it my VLC you can give it another path or you can leave it default to slash it's up to you you can also change the port as well I'm going to leave it as such a default Port of 8554 you might have to just change your firewall settings if you think it's getting blocked so for the encoding or transcoding um I you have to use transporting this is so by default it will be set to this mp3 mp4 but the setting would be probably showing MP4 mov but these are the settings that worked for me so I'm showing you the settings that are actually working for me I'm using mpac-ts or then for the first tab and for the video Codec I'm using h.264 and I'm specifying the bitrate speed of 6500 or 60 yeah or 6500 for the audio codec codec to work um mp3 didn't work for me and back audio didn't work for me MPEG for audio AAC work for me and make sure the sample rate is set right it might be different for you but for uh 44 000 works for me it's probably Universal for everybody so give this setting a try for audio uh for subtitles we are not having any subtitles so once again these are the settings that are actually working for me they might be different for you so you might have to play around a bit with that I'm going to click on Save now I'm going to click next it's going to give you the path say it's going to say hey hey this is your path it's missing the IP address I'm going to copy that I'll show you and you're going to click stream it's going to pop up with that camera controlled property or camera controls you don't see the feed here but I I'm going to just reset everything to default and click ok here you can choose the compression you might have MPEG or RGB 24 I believe so I'm getting this compression option depending on the model of the camera then I'm going to use a 1080p for my Default Resolution the output size I'm going to click apply then the Audio Wizard will come up sorry apply and then you have to hit OK then the audio says hey do you want to use the Audio I was like yeah sure I want to use the audio as well the microphone basically click ok now you'll see the camera light blink on your end if this laptop will be Amber white but for me it's a blue LED blinking on my camera at the bottom left you'll see that okay the transcoding or the streaming has started the seconds I noticed that they pause and they go back and forward it's a little goofy but the stream doesn't seem to be that bad to be honest so to test it out if you have an instance of OBS running on your system you can do that on OBS so I have another machine running with OBS this is for testing purposes to test if the stream is actually working so you click on ADD and you choose media source right now right now the microphone I've muted because I'm outputting my microphone to that computer as well but you'll see down here there will be another microphone added from the camera feed so I'm going to choose uh let's call it live cam right that's what it's called we're going to create new and instead of using local file I'm going to specify the path the one that I just copied you want to make sure that you don't have the extra bracket at the end and you want to put in your IP address for example it might be 10.0.24 25 whatever right for me I have defined my IP address in a host file and it's called I called it my local PC because I don't want to be putting my IP addresses uh um in the field there I rather type the name easy to remember so to speaking so my local IP of my local PC is the IP address of the machine running the VLC where the conversions actually take place where the USB camera is so this is a second machine running OBC oh sorry not OBC my bad I have been calling it OBC OBS and you're gonna just uh you can use use Hardware encoding don't think it does much and on click ok again this is a test here you can see that live cam it has come up the microphone this is my other USB microphone that I have and there you go so this feed you here is actually from the camera feed and you can see me right there I'm going to just wave here for you guys yeah it's a little bit delayed so because depending on the connection between machines you might see these mirrors and whatnot so it's probably related to the fact that you're encoding or your speed between the two machines is not quick enough so this live cam is actually from the feed from the camera so that's how you would convert your USB camera to IP based camera so if you if you think this worked well for you guys do comment below and do please hit the Subscribe button thanks

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Published: Mon Jan 02 2023