Hi,
I'm working on project where I need to grab video from an Axis IP
camera. This camera send a stream of a multipart message on HTTP. I
write this code (at the bottom of the message) to read and uncompress
each jpeg images. I call nextFrame() 24 times per seconds (or every
0,0416 sec.) to read the next image that arrived.
Everything works well but one thing. My problem is that running
nextFrame() took, most of the time, more then 0,0414 sec. so my video
is lagging. I monitor every call and I found that the culprit is when I
read from the socket file handle. It's the only bottleneck in my code.
I try different approaches to the problem but I always hit the same
problem.
I don't think it's normal that read() take more then 0,04 sec to read
1000 bytes from memory (the socket file handle). How can I avoid this
problem ?
I'm on Linux 2.6 (last Ubuntu) with python 2.4 on P4 2.3.
Thanks
Etienne
CODE
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class Axis:
url = ""
user = "user"
password = "password"
header = {}
header["Authorizat ion"] = "Basic " + b64encode(user + ":" + password)
http = urllib2.HTTPHan dler()
state = 0
limit = 1000
imageData = None
sizeX = 352
sizeY = 240
fps = 24
compression = 25
def startGrab(self) :
try:
url = self.url + "/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?resol ution=" +
str(self.sizeX) \
+ "x" + str(self.sizeY) + "&compressi on=" \
+ str(self.compre ssion) + "&req_fps=" + str(self.fps)
req = urllib2.Request (url, None, self.header)
self.fh = self.http.http_ open(req)
self.buffer = ""
self.state = 1
except:
self.state = 0
def stopGrab(self):
self.fh.close()
self.state = 0
def nextFrame(self) :
if self.state:
try:
temp = self.fh.read(se lf.limit) # <-- TAKE A LOT OF TIME
self.buffer += temp
boundary = self.buffer.fin d("\r\nConten t-Type: image/jpeg\r\n") + 30
if boundary >= 30:
end = self.buffer.fin d("\r\n\r\n--myboundary", boundary) + 2
if end >= 2:
image = Image.open(Stri ngIO(self.buffe r[boundary:end]))
self.imageData = image.tostring( "raw",image.mod e,0,-1)
self.buffer = self.buffer[end:]
except:
pass
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