How to stream video out of Blue Iris

[risquare]

I have BI running with two cameras and everything is fine as far as BI goes. However I want to take video feed out of BI and stream it to Sony TV, Google Home devices etc.
This used to work and it doesn't anymore.

http://192.168.1.5:91/mjpg/MG/video.mjpg?oid=1&size=4080x2248&keepAR=false&overlay=true&session=32ab650d13de324a509e02dc47c0735c

I'm newbie to BI please advise what to do.

 

[jaydeel]

Start simple.
Nuke everything after the ? and try again.

 

[TonyR]

+1^^^.

This URL below works fine, plays on Brave browser (Chromium-based) and VLC.

• http://192.168.200.250:81/mjpg/Cam53/video.mjpg
• http://BI-server-IP:BI-server-port/mjpg/CamShortName/video.mjpg

You can also include authentication in the URL:

• In BI settings => "Web server" => "Advanced", uncheck "Use secure session keys and login page".
• Then use URL such as "http://BI-server-IP:BI-port/mjpg/CamShortName/video.mjpg?user=yourusername&pw=yourpassword"

 

[risquare]

Thank You very much guys for the prompt responses. Yes, indeed this does work from a web browser

192.168.1.5:91/mjpg/MG/video.mjpg

However, it is not good as an input for Google Cast. As I mentioned above I want to stream the video feed
to Google Home devices such as Google Nest Hub and Sony Bravia TV (Goggle Home enabled and recognized).
Meanwhile this test video feed does work.

https://www.rmp-streaming.com/media/bbb-360p.mp4

So my displays are connected and working fine. Just the input stream coming from Blue Iris at the URL above doesn't fit.
Any ideas for another video format to pull out of Blue Iris?

 

[jaydeel]

Maybe the /h264/ option?

Excerpt from the Help PDF...

 

[TonyR]

This used to work and it doesn't anymore.

http://192.168.1.5:91/mjpg/MG/video.mjpg?oid=1&size=4080x2248&keepAR=false&overlay=true&session=32ab650d13de324a509e02dc47c0735c

So the above URL worked before....on what device, specifically, could that URL be shown?
How and where did you get the URL that "used to work and it doesn't anymore" ?

 

[risquare]

So the above URL worked before....on what device, specifically, could that URL be shown?
How and where did you get the URL that "used to work and it doesn't anymore" ?

This is the big mystery for me as it was like 6 mo. ago and I don't remember how I got it. I found it memorized in Google Cast app that I'm using.

 

[risquare]

The above post by @jaydeel makes a lot of sense, as far as Google Cast allegedly recognizes H.264 codec. However it doesn't work for me in reality. I'm using two different Google Cast apps and they both fail.

I'm using this URL per @jaydeel posting above

192.168.1.5:91/h264/MG/temp.h264

I tried also to embed my username/password in the url like that

http://user:password@192.168.1.5:91/h264/MG/temp.h264

I was also playing with MIME types using image/jpg video/mp4 video/H264

No luck so far.

 

[risquare]

Maybe the /h264/ option?

Excerpt from the Help PDF...
View attachment 175716

Well, h264 option doesn't work as I said above. Decided to test it with VLC and it doesn't work with VLC either. Tried to see it in a browser and it doesn't work with a browser either.

192.168.1.5:91/h264/MG/temp.h264

Meanwhile this link does work in a browser meaning that Blue Iris is well and alive

192.168.1.5:91/mjpg/MG/video.mjpg

@jaydeel maybe something wrong with the documentation or maybe I do need to do something at Blue Iris to enable H264 ???

 

[risquare]

Little progress made. When I use https instead of http than I get the name of the Google Cast app on the screen (screen was dark before)
and a progress bar showing endless progress but no image from BI. I'm using this now with mime video/h246

https://192.168.1.5:91/h264/MG/temp.h264