Comments on: Raspberry Pi: MJPEG Streaming Web Server (Picamera2)

By: Raimo Rychlowski

Raimo Rychlowski — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:04:51 +0000

This script works great but was wondering if there is a way to rotate the camera in the script?
Thanks

By: Jeff Barnett

Jeff Barnett — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:24:07 +0000

This is a wonderful tutorial and everything works perfectly. I would like to add ssl to the site to use https on my streaming url . Is there a easy way to do this?

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:41:29 +0000

In reply to Thomas Weber.

Hi.
I wasn’t aware of that.
Thanks for letting us know.

Regards,
Sara

By: Thomas Weber

Thomas Weber — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:21:32 +0000

Hello,
Thank you for this script, which works on my Pi Zero W with ‘trixie’.
I have since seen that in
‘https://github.com/raspberrypi/picamera2/blob/main/examples/mjpeg_server_2.py’
there is an example with ‘MJPEGEncoder’ instead of ‘JpegEncoder’.
After changing the two references to ‘JpegEncoder’ to ‘MJPEGEncoder’
without making any further code changes to your script,
approximately double the frame rate is achieved
(not measured, but derived from the display with btop/upload).
And, of course, the change is very noticeable in the web browser.

Best regards from Rodenbach, Germany

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By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Thu, 08 May 2025 09:48:01 +0000

In reply to Andreas Huwe.

Hi.
Do you know the version of Python you have running?

Regards,
Sara

By: Andreas Huwe

Andreas Huwe — Wed, 07 May 2025 14:51:05 +0000

Hello,
on my raspberry pi it does the work. The error is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “stream_server.py”, line 10, in
import socketserver
ImportError: No module named socketserver

pip install socketserver

results in:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement socketserver
ERROR: No matching distribution found for socketserver

in a python forum there is the information:

socketserver is a standard library module so you don’t need to install it. It looks like you are using Python 2 so use SocketServer, In Python 3 it’s renamed to socketserver.

So what I am doing wrong?

Any help is appreciated.

Best regards,
Andreas

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:41:41 +0000

Thanks, very clear instructions – worked well.

By: Dieter Runggas

Dieter Runggas — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 11:55:52 +0000

The older version with picamera works very very fine. Is there a way to use it with usb cameras at /dev/video0 or /dev/video1?

Best regards from Bochum, Germany

By: bastynator

bastynator — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:39:27 +0000

I was wasting hours trying to get rtsp stream to work without success.
This simple python script just works out of the box and the mjpg can be consumed by Home Assistant straight away.
Thanks!

By: StormingMoose

StormingMoose — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 03:51:30 +0000

Awesome one more time, thank you!