Unable to retrieve snapPicture jpeg even on following the exact recommended steps

[swapnill93]

                              `Foscam camera = new Foscam(ip.add.here, 88, username, password);
                                System.out.println("CHECKING.." + camera.getName());
				String ret = camera.snapPicture();
				FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream("testfoscam.jpg");
				byte[] rawBytes = ret.getBytes();
				
				fout.write( rawBytes , 0, rawBytes.length );
				fout.close();`

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OUTPUT>
CHECKING..FI9800P
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The output shows name of the camera . But the file foscam.jpg "can not be opened" since its damaged.
Also, I tried retrieving the picture as bufferedImage but it came out as null. The ImageIO can not decipher the bytes!

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Maven:

foscamlib-mvn-repo https://raw.github.com/hypothermic/foscamapi/mvn-repo/ nl.hypothermic foscamlib 1.08-RELEASE

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There is something wrong with the snapPicture() bytes
Q)

1. How to convert snapPicture() to a viewable BufferedImage in the application itself.

2. Is there any way to access the live video itself?

Thanks! Please help. Have been stuck on this since 2 days

[hypothermic]

1. You would have to use some sort of JPEG parser. This functionality is not included in the library. This library is merely a HTTP wrapper around the API and only returns unparsed/raw JPEG.
2. You can use GStreamer or OpenCV to access the stream over RTSP, here's an example: https://github.com/hypothermic/FoscamViewer (it's quite an old project and isn't supported anymore but I think it's a good example).

Possible duplicate of #2 .

[swapnill93]

1. You would have to use some sort of JPEG parser. This functionality is not included in the library. This library is merely a HTTP wrapper around the API and only returns unparsed/raw JPEG.
2. You can use GStreamer or OpenCV to access the stream over RTSP, here's an example: https://github.com/hypothermic/FoscamViewer (it's quite an old project and isn't supported anymore but I think it's a good example).

Possible duplicate of #2 .

Thanks for the time.
I will go through the examples you have provided.