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Raspberry Pi MJPEG stream over UDP
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mjpeg_udp.py
from picamera import PiCamera
from io import BytesIO
import socket
import time
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
with PiCamera(resolution='VGA', framerate=5) as camera:
time.sleep(2)
buff = BytesIO()
for _ in camera.capture_continuous(buff, format='mjpeg'):
sock.sendto(buff.getvalue(), ('10.10.0.10', 7000))
buff.seek(0)
buff.truncate()
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Does this work for you?

I get:

  File "./mjpegudp.py", line 12, in <module>
    for _ in camera.capture_continuous(buff, format='mjpeg'):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/picamera/camera.py", line 1666, in capture_continuous
    camera_port, output_port, format, resize, **options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/picamera/camera.py", line 675, in _get_image_encoder
    self, camera_port, output_port, format, resize, **options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/picamera/encoders.py", line 1079, in __init__
    parent, camera_port, input_port, format, resize, **options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/picamera/encoders.py", line 187, in __init__
    self._create_encoder(format, **options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/picamera/encoders.py", line 982, in _create_encoder
    raise PiCameraValueError("Unsupported format %s" % format)
picamera.exc.PiCameraValueError: Unsupported format mjpeg

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