mjpeg-http-streamer

A small python tool that reads a plain MJPEG stream from stdin and publishes it as http MJPEG stream. It can be used in combination with libcamera on a Raspberry Pi to create a http stream for OctoPrint.

Installation

Installation is done via pip.

pip install mjpeg-http-streamer

Usage

Example invocation on a Raspberry PI:

libcamera-vid -t 0 --inline --codec mjpeg -o - \
  | python3 -m mjpeg_http_streamer -l <host> -p 8080

The HTTP stream can be received by opening the url http://<host>:8080/stream. Further a single snapshot can be retrieved using http://<host>:8080/snapshot.

In production use cases it is advised to host mjpeg-http-streamer behind a reverse proxy like nginx.