Use ffmpeg to connect to an ip cctv camera and create video files on the fly that can be viewed in an mpeg-dash compatible browser using dash.js and an html5 video element.
A linux server, such as Ubuntu
Apache web server installed, running, and reachable via its ip address
| # Given a text string, remove all non-alphanumeric | |
| # characters (using Unicode definition of alphanumeric). | |
| def stripNonAlphaNum(text): | |
| import re | |
| return re.compile(r'\W+', re.UNICODE).split(text) |
| # install | |
| mkdir ~/airflow | |
| cd ~/airflow | |
| pip install airflow | |
| # Have a look here if you need additional packages: https://airflow.incubator.apache.org/installation.html | |
| # setup mysql backend as given here. The default SQLite is not adequate for some workloads. | |
| # http://site.clairvoyantsoft.com/installing-and-configuring-apache-airflow/ | |
| # start services |
| https://airflow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/start.html | |
| sudo apt-get install python3-pip | |
| sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib | |
| sudo -u postgres createuser --interactive | |
| name: airflow | |
| superuser: yes |
| # this script has been tested and worked in a freshly installed Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 | |
| # it assumes that you are running airflow in a private netowrk and no need to be worry about outside access | |
| # if that's not the case, the lines for PostgreSQL and Redis in this script need to be updated accordingly | |
| # run as root | |
| sudo su | |
| # initial system updates and installs | |
| apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get autoremove && apt-get autoclean | |
| apt-get -y install build-essential binutils gcc make git htop nethogs tmux |