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		ck2 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Lin... tapo annoyingly is also one of the only cameras that doesn't have a still snapshot url after all these years and endless requests from many someone needs to make replacement firmware ffmpeg can fake it but takes a few seconds to grab from the video stream and of course you can't run ffmpeg from your browser (or wait, can you now?) `ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://cameraname:[email protected]:554/stream1" -an -y -vframes 1 -f image2 -vcodec mjpeg "snap.jpg"`

g-mork 3 months ago [–]

try reducing your buffer size and -probesize to help with that delay (and/or optionally fixing the video format parameters so probing isn't needed at all)

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