Media Tools DirectShow Filters can be used to acquire, parse and decoder M-JPEG encoded video stream from an IP camera or a video server, however for a quick start it is necessary to properly register filters on system and create a DirectShow graph.
To register the filters, it is necessary to download DLLs from repository. While Acquisition.dll does not require special prerequisites installed, CodingI.dll is using Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) version 6.0.0 internally and requires its [at least] redistributables installed before DLLs are being registered using regsvr32.
Intel went further with new releases of IPP, which are incompatible with the version used to build CodingI.dll, so it is version 6.0.0 (in downloads on Intel website: version 6.0 build 0) has to be installed. Note that Intel DLLs from C:\Program Files\Intel\IPP\6.0.0.044\ia32\bin (version 6.0.0.062 is known to be also compatible) need to be on system search path, or copied to C:\Windows\system32 directory.
Once Intel IPP is prepared, it is required to register CodingI.dll using regsvr32. This registers filters and they are available in GraphEdit and for applications. It is important that on the way of constructing graph which renders video using standard video renderers it is required to specify correct resolution for video, or otherwise graph might fail to start with a message “The graph could not change state”, caused by video renderer failure to dynamically change to different (effective) resolution.
To create rendering graph, add Alax.Info HTTP Stream Source Filter from the filter list and provide camera URL in properties, e.g. http://cam15001.miemasu.net/nphMotionJPEG?Kind=1
Add more filters and provide proper resolution for video:
Complete graph construction with resolution set up:
Being run, the graph shows video:
Dynamic handling of resolution selection, configuration and change is also illustrated in sample application RenderHttpMjpegVideo01.
NOTE: The constructed graph .GRF file is available for download.