Snap of the UVC webcam streaming tool
MJPG-streamer takes JPGs from Linux-UVC compatible webcams, filesystem or other input plugins and streams them as M-JPEG via HTTP to webbrowsers, VLC and other software. It is the successor of uvc-streamer, a Linux-UVC streaming application with Pan/Tilt.
This snap ships the input_uvc, input_file, input_http and input_ptp2 as well as the output_file, output_http, output_rtsp, output_udp and output_viewer plugins by default, opencv is currently not supported.
Please make sure to run snap connect mjpg-streamer:camera to allow the app (or the service) to access /dev/video*.
Additionally to the mjpg-streamer command the snap ships a service that can be configured via the /var/snap/mjpg-streamer/current/config file. Set the DAEMON= option in there to "true", then run "snap restart mjpg-streamer" (or reboot the system) to get the mjpg-streamer service up and running.
If you use the daemon it will automatically create /var/snap/mjpg-streamer/current/www with the default website content that the app ships and use this.
If you do not use the included daemon you are free to use i.e. ~/snap/mjpg-streamer/current/www to ship your own websites so -w must be explicitly provided in "manual mode" (Note that you can always use "http://<YOUR_IP>:/?action=stream" to access the camera even without a www dir set).
See also "snap info mjpg-streamer" as well as the package homepage at https://snapcraft.io/mjpg-streamer/ for info about this snap package.