Answers.Body: <p>You have two choices...</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>The wireless way:</p>
  
  <p>SJ4000 WiFi has a built-in RTSP streaming server, supporting <em>one client at a time</em> with a <strong>limited resolution at 640x360</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>This can be viewed locally by connecting your phone or laptop to the camera's access point, start a RTSP+H.264-capable media player (e.g. VLC Media Player), and instruct it to open following URL:</p>
  
  <pre><code>rtsp://192.168.1.254/sjcam.mov
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, if you would like to allow multiple people to watch the stream, you would need to install a live streaming software (that supports RTSP video source) on your phone or laptop.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>VLC Media Player (at least the desktop version) can do a self-hosted live streaming in this scenario, but is awkward to set up.</li>
  <li><a href="https://obsproject.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Open Broadcaster Studio</a> is known to <a href="https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/how-to-add-rtsp-ip-cam-video-source.43295/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">support this configuration</a> as well as broadcasting into services like YouTube, Twitch, or Dailymotion.</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li><p>The wired way:</p>
  
  <p>SJ4000 WiFi is capable of acting as a USB webcam with <strong>HD-ready 1280x720 resolution</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>Once the camera's USB port is connected to laptop or OTG-capable Android phone, choose "PCCamera" mode on camera's screen; and you can view the stream locally with <em>any</em> webcam application.</p>
  
  <p>As you are going to re-broadcast the stream, <em>any</em> live streaming software should work (anything ranging from Google Hangouts, LINE, Facebook Live, Youtube app, to specialized ones like Open Broadcaster mentioned above).</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Caveat:</p>
  
  <p>As far as I have tested with my firmware version, <strong>the camera does not provide audio streaming</strong> in both RTSP and USB webcam mode. Since you are broadcasting sport event, you would have to insert live audio on-field in the live streaming software (optionally, with proper A/V delay compensation). Which in this case, the <em>wired way is recommended</em>, as there are more choices on software you can use.</p>
  
  <p>If you are not particularly picky with the 0.6+ sec A/V desync, using <em>wired mode</em> with video chat applications mentioned above should suffice; they will pick audio from laptop/phone's microphone. However, if you need A/V delay compensation, use Open Broadcaster Studio or other specialized live streaming software of similar ability instead.</p>
  
  <p>Hope this helps.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: You can also use [OBS Studio](https://obsproject.com/download) as an alternative, just follow [this guide](http://selimatmaca.com/index.php/live-streaming/138-encoder-software).
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Answers.Body: <p>After lots of unsuccessful attempts to connect different players on my laptop to rtsp://192.168.1.254/sjcam.mov I decided to make a bit of debugging with a packet sniffer to find out what occurs when SJCAM Zone Android app talks to the camera.</p>
  <p>As a result I discovered that in the case of my camera the correct URL for VLC stream player is:
  <code>http://192.168.1.254:8192</code>.
  Seems that it's using a technique called HLS (HTTP Live Streaming).</p>
  <p>My SJCam4000 Wifi is v1.7.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I own a SJ4000 action cam with WIFI function. The latter allows it to connect the camera to my phone.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to livestream a sports event. Is it somehow possible to stream the video from my phone? If it is easier to set up with a laptop, this would also be an option.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you for your help!</p>
  
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Comments.Text: This link may be useful, it explains accessing SJCAM RTSP stream: http://how-i-did-that.blogspot.com/2014/11/reverse-engineering-sjcam4000-wifi-kind.html
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ThreadText: # How to set up a Livestream from SJ4000 Wifi?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-11-19)
  
  I own a SJ4000 action cam with WIFI function. The latter allows it to connect the camera to my phone.
  
  I would like to livestream a sports event. Is it somehow possible to stream the video from my phone? If it is easier to set up with a laptop, this would also be an option.
  
  Thank you for your help!
  
  **Tags:** streaming, action-cam
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: This link may be useful, it explains accessing SJCAM RTSP stream: http://how-i-did-that.blogspot.com/2014/11/reverse-engineering-sjcam4000-wifi-kind.html  
  
  ---
  
  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-04-23. Score: 4
  
  You have two choices...
  
  * The wireless way:
  
    SJ4000 WiFi has a built-in RTSP streaming server, supporting *one client at a time* with a **limited resolution at 640x360**.
  
    This can be viewed locally by connecting your phone or laptop to the camera's access point, start a RTSP+H.264-capable media player (e.g. VLC Media Player), and instruct it to open following URL:
  
    ```
    rtsp://192.168.1.254/sjcam.mov
  
    ```
  
    However, if you would like to allow multiple people to watch the stream, you would need to install a live streaming software (that supports RTSP video source) on your phone or laptop.
  
    + VLC Media Player (at least the desktop version) can do a self-hosted live streaming in this scenario, but is awkward to set up.
    + [Open Broadcaster Studio](https://obsproject.com/) is known to [support this configuration](https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/how-to-add-rtsp-ip-cam-video-source.43295/) as well as broadcasting into services like YouTube, Twitch, or Dailymotion.
  * The wired way:
  
    SJ4000 WiFi is capable of acting as a USB webcam with **HD-ready 1280x720 resolution**.
  
    Once the camera's USB port is connected to laptop or OTG-capable Android phone, choose "PCCamera" mode on camera's screen; and you can view the stream locally with *any* webcam application.
  
    As you are going to re-broadcast the stream, *any* live streaming software should work (anything ranging from Google Hangouts, LINE, Facebook Live, Youtube app, to specialized ones like Open Broadcaster mentioned above).
  
  Caveat:
  
  As far as I have tested with my firmware version, **the camera does not provide audio streaming** in both RTSP and USB webcam mode. Since you are broadcasting sport event, you would have to insert live audio on-field in the live streaming software (optionally, with proper A/V delay compensation). Which in this case, the *wired way is recommended*, as there are more choices on software you can use.
  
  If you are not particularly picky with the 0.6+ sec A/V desync, using *wired mode* with video chat applications mentioned above should suffice; they will pick audio from laptop/phone's microphone. However, if you need A/V delay compensation, use Open Broadcaster Studio or other specialized live streaming software of similar ability instead.
  
  Hope this helps.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: You can also use [OBS Studio](https://obsproject.com/download) as an alternative, just follow [this guide](http://selimatmaca.com/index.php/live-streaming/138-encoder-software).  
  
  ---
  
  ### Answer by username_4 on 2023-05-02. Score: 0
  
  After lots of unsuccessful attempts to connect different players on my laptop to rtsp://192.168.1.254/sjcam.mov I decided to make a bit of debugging with a packet sniffer to find out what occurs when SJCAM Zone Android app talks to the camera.
  
  As a result I discovered that in the case of my camera the correct URL for VLC stream player is:
  `http://192.168.1.254:8192`.
  Seems that it's using a technique called HLS (HTTP Live Streaming).
  
  My SJCam4000 Wifi is v1.7.
  
  
  ---
  
  