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ck2 ◴[15 Sep 25 20:19 UTC] No.45254436[source]▶

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:camerapass@192.168.1.23:554/stream1" -an   -y  -vframes 1 -f image2 -vcodec mjpeg  "snap.jpg"

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1. g-mork ◴[15 Sep 25 22:27 UTC] No.45255729[source]▶

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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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Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link