Starting and Stopping the Stream

Once you have your input selected (test image or camera) and at least one output (HTTP and/or file), you're ready to start streaming! Click the "Start" button at the bottom, and one of two things will happen:

• StreamMinder will catch a problem with some of your output settings, and warn you that it can't start the stream.

or

• The "Start" button will change to a "Stop" button, the status bar at the bottom will indicate that the stream is running, and the form will be disabled (except for the "Stop" button, the menus, and the ability to switch between tabs). You'll also get a slew of message boxes that look like errors. Don't worry, they aren't really errors; they're just console output from MJPG-streamer that's been captured in a message box. They look like errors because most of MJPG-streamer's console output goes to stderr. I've pointed this out to MJPG-streamer's maintainer, and I'm working with him to get this normal startup output going to stdout rather than stderr, preferably in one output statement so that we get just one message box when the stream starts.

StreamMinder will continue to monitor MJPG-streamer for any messages or changes in execution status. If the stream is unexpectedly stopped, StreamMinder will reset the "Stop" button so that it says "Start" again, and will update the status bar to show that the stream is stopped. You can re-start it by clicking the "Start" button again. If you exit StreamMinder while the stream is running, MJPG-streamer will continue to run with the current settings. However, you cannot re-start StreamMinder and have it pick up where it left off. Version 2 of StreamMinder is expected to work around this limitation by employing a client-server model.

1. Installing/running
2. The "Inputs" tab
3. The "Outputs" tab
1. HTTP output
2. File output
4. Starting/stopping
5. Menu items