MxPEG Software Development Kit

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Purpose of this SDK
  • Version
• Documentation
  • Why MxPEG?
  • How does it work?
  • Finding the right streaming parameters
    • Instead of I-frames...
  • Accessing Recordings (in preparation)
    • Through the event list of the camera
    • In the file server's directory structure
    • Searching a recording close to a given time
  • Detailed Data Format Descriprion
    • MxPEG Frame/Stream Format
    • MxPEG Stream Header (M1IMG)
    • MxPEG Frame Header (MXF)
    • Audio
• MxPEG ActiveX Component demo page and interface description
• MOBOTIX Crossplatform Client (mxcpc) C++ class library and sample applications
  • README.TXT
  • LICENCE.TXT
  • Reference Documentation (extracted from the sourcecode using doxygen)
  • MxPEG Player, the MxPEG live stream viewer for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows - and its sources
  • mxg2mjpg, the core-level MxPEG-to-MJPEG/RGB/yv12 converter - and its sources
  • C++ Source Code to the mxcpc library and associated sample applications

Introduction

Purpose of this SDK

MxPEG SDK is intended to support software developers of, e.g., video management systems to integrate MOBOTIX network cameras into their systems. Typical integration tasks include

• retrieval of an image stream for the purpose of viewing, analyzing, converting, and storing;
• programmatically setting camera parameters;
• programmatically making use of camera messages.

MxPEG SDK is not intended as a guide to the internal APIs of MOBOTIX cameras. In the future, MOBOTIX might publish another SDK that allows for integration of 3rd-party software modules, e.g., advanced video analysis software, that run inside the camera.

The intended audience of MxPEG SDK are developers and system integrators who are familiar with image compression. In order to make use of the included sample applications MxPEG Player and mxg2mjpg, some familiarity with C++ and Make will be advantageous.

Please note that MOBOTIX AG's regular product support does not extend to MxPEG SDK. Please contact mxpeg-sdk@mobotix.com if you have questions regarding this SDK or MxPEG in general.

Version

This SDK covers the MxPEG implementation of the M10/D10 series cameras running V2.2.2.15 software. Most things will hold for other V2.x versions, though.

The MxPEG ActiveX component covered and included in this SDK is of version 1.2.2.

The current version number of this SDK is 0.9.1.

Version 1.0 (probably not out before July 2006) will have audio support in MxPEG Player.

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