IP Cam live feed from C#

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I'm trying to get live feed from TPLink TL-SC3171G IP cam in C# app. I've tried using AForge.NET library but no luck. The sample code from AForge.NET doesn't work for me. I'm getting "The remote server returned an error: (401) unauthorized access." I can access the cam via browser with basic ip adress: `"http://192.168.168.20"`. In app I've tried with: ``` "http://username:password@192.168.168.20" "http://username:password@192.168.168.20:port" ``` Can you please help me with some direction. It really doesn't have to be AForge.NET library. This is the code: ``` using AForge.Video; using AForge.Video.DirectShow; namespace Player { public partial class MainForm : Form { private Stopwatch stopWatch = null; // Class constructor public MainForm( ) { InitializeComponent( ); } private void MainForm_FormClosing( object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e ) { CloseCurrentVideoSource( ); } // "Exit" menu item clicked private void exitToolStripMenuItem_Click( object sender, EventArgs e ) { this.Close(…

Accepted Answer

For now I did it this way:

```
string sourceURL = "http://ipaddress/jpg/image.jpg";
            byte[] buffer = new byte[100000];
            int read, total = 0;
            // create HTTP request
            HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sourceURL);
            req.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "pass");
            // get response
            WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();
            // get response stream
            Stream stream = resp.GetResponseStream();
            // read data from stream
            while ((read = stream.Read(buffer, total, 1000)) != 0)
            {
                total += read;
            }
            // get bitmap
            Bitmap bmp = (Bitmap)Bitmap.FromStream(
                          new MemoryStream(buffer, 0, total));

pictureBox1.Image = bmp;
```

Of course I've put this code in a thread and I call it every 500 ms.

IP Cam live feed from C#

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