You won't beleive this - No - of course you will!

[gwheelo]

I am working with a Trendnet TV IP410 camera. It is an IP camera with a built in web server. Recently Trendnet released an update to the firmware which now allows the camera to stream MJPEG without requiring a User/password at the viewing end. This just made the camera twice as useful for my purposes. Trendnet also supplies some code to add to your HTML as a MJPEG viewer. It is basic code - rather generic from what I see when searching for viewer code on the web.

Well here is the rub. It works flawlessly in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera - but try it in IE 7,8, or 9 and it throws a "syntax error" message in an alert window which must be clicked for the stream to display. Now there are several fixes available on the web - but none eliminated the error message box - until I found this fix:

In Internet Explorer -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings
Clear the checkbox in ”Automatically detect settings”

LAN Settings? - only MS would bury an error that deep and seemingly out of the box!

Now that fix works great - but I am not sure any of my IE viewers want to alter there IE settings just because I say it is all right.

Is there anyone out there that can come up with some code I can include on my webcam page to trap the error and allow the code to continue.

All suggestions are welcome and will be tried.

George Wheelock

[steve]

Is it this page - http://www.wheelocknet.net/cam/ ?

That works fine for me in IE9 (and I have 'automatically detect settings' ticked).

[gwheelo]

Steve -

No - not available on the site as yet. What you see is a still from a Microsoft Lifecam studio. I am trying to iron out thekinnks before I release the live video cam. I will let you know when there is something to look at.

GW

[nking]

In Internet Explorer -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings
Clear the checkbox in ”Automatically detect settings”

In my experience the default setting is unchecked and has certainly been the case since Vista. The setting was checked on some older hardware XP systems, but they are far less common these days.

[steve]

In my experience the default setting is unchecked and has certainly been the case since Vista.

My system is a very recent (last week) install of Windows 7 x64, and has it set.

[nking]

In my experience the default setting is unchecked and has certainly been the case since Vista.

My system is a very recent (last week) install of Windows 7 x64, and has it set.

Was this brand new hardware (operating system included) or an install/upgrade you did yourself? I would be surprised if many systems have this checked by default but I can only speak based upon my own observations/experience. In fact it is recommended that it is unchecked unless proxy is involved.

[steve]

It was a new build and install that I did myself. I can see the sense in unsetting it if you're not using a proxy, but at what point in the install does it offer you the option? I certainly didn't set it, I just plugged in my wireless dongle, installed the drivers, and my internet connection was working.

[nking]

Steve,

You are right, it doesn't come up as part of the install and I was wrong to imply that it is a default in these circumstances. I should have stated that it is the default setting applied by off the shelf systems i.e. Dell, HP, and so on. Not too many of us out there now that build and install systems ourselves, so if you do, it's worth unchecking the setting.