Low level program to save a mjpeg stream

[Rufe0]

Hi all
Well first I’ll just say I am a complete Linux beginner, but I have done vbs, js, php, html web type stuff so I’m not a complete beginner to programming.

However I've been trying to learn C and python but it’s not making a huge amount of sense.

I am wanting to make a simple low level program that copies an image from a mjpeg stream on 192.168.0.1/videostream.cgi for example to a variable then save that variable to a file on my system.

I am aware that there are programs out there that would do this but I still want to make my own.

Any help?
Thanks Rufe0

[GNU-Fan]

I am aware that there are programs out there that would do this but I still want to make my own.

Fair enough. But why not looking in these programs how they do it?

[Rubberman]

Fair enough. But why not looking in these programs how they do it?

Exactly. The best way to learn how to do this stuff in open source systems like Linux is to get the source to an application that does what you want, and learn from that. That said, not all software is equally well (or poorly) written, and internal documentation may or may not exist. I have been working on fixing and improving a news reader application recently (klibido) because while it basically does what I want in a news reader, it would crash way too frequently. So, I have been gradually refactoring and fixing it, which at about 30k lines of code is not a trivial task. At least it is now useful and only crashes upon occasion, which I am working on presently.