FF requests for save/open while streaming M-JPEG

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Sempervivum
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FF requests for save/open while streaming M-JPEG

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Hallo,
I have an IP camera providing an M-JPEG stream. Streaming works fine in FF, however after some time it requests for a decision "save or open file". This is not appropriate when streaming und it's confusing and annoying to the visitors of my website.
I'm displaying the stream simply by an img tag like this:

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<img src="http://user:passwd@domain/video/mjpg.cgi" width="640" height="480">
Can this be fixed?
Best regards - Ulrich
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Re: FF requests for save/open while streaming M-JPEG

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Re: FF requests for save/open while streaming M-JPEG

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Sounds like an animated .gif but using a new extension and display process for the .jpg file format. Sounds like it is a newer process coming from mobile phones and may take the industry a bit to catch up.

You might look here and see if any other process may better fit the display.
http://www.file-extension.org/extensions/mjpg

or here:
https://www.file-extensions.org/mjpg-file-extension
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Re: FF requests for save/open while streaming M-JPEG

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Thanks for your reply. AFAIK MJPEG is a streaming format fairly commonly used by cameras. I want to make my camera available to friends that are not technically experienced, therefore it should be possible to view in any common webbrowser.
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