Streaming DroidCam video to OpenCV Python in ANYWAY possible

Question

I currently have the Droid cam Application installed on my android, it is being detected and is streaming on Skype through wifi (Droid Cam client). It is however not streaming to OpenCV, no matter what number I put in for the following.

cap=cv2.VideoCapture()

In addition to this, I have an IP address, so is there any way I can implement this so that OpenCV can read an process images wireless from my camera? I know that it does not even begin to read the camera as I have tested it with the following code, which returns FALSE every time I run it.

cap=cv2.Videocapture(0) #Use default cam
i=0
while(i<50):
    ret,frame=cap.read()
    print ret

Keeps returning false, meaning camera isn't being recognized :L

Answer 1

You have to enter the ip address of the droidcam followed by the format.The following method worked flawlessly for me : cap = cv2.VideoCapture('http://0.0.0.0:4747/mjpegfeed?640x480')

Make sure you open the client and do not access the camera feed elsewhere